The person in charge of giving the reply to the candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo on behalf of Sumar was Marta Lois, who was making her debut as a parliamentary spokesperson, and who focused her intervention on describing the futility of the last month and of the investiture session itself, as a “ journey to nowhere” that “ends here, because you cannot govern a country you do not understand.” Lois questioned whether Feijóo was in a position to display the audacity and courage necessary to face the challenges of the presidency of the Government, and described the candidate as “someone who has been mulling over his own failure for weeks, and dragging his feet.”
Sumar’s spokesperson focused the first part of her intervention on describing the inability she attributes to Feijóo to understand the country she intends to govern and used a photograph of the constitutional pact that heads the PP’s political document. Lois highlighted that in that image there are nationalists, social democrats, Christian democrats and communists, that is, “the forces with which you cannot speak, the political forces that you have left over,” said Lois, adding “that is why you do not have a I only vote more for the investiture after all these weeks.”
Lois stressed that the result of 23-J confirms that there is a Spain of 12.5 million voters who do not want “you to be sworn in as president”, compared to the 11.4 million who voted so that PP and Vox could form a government. “There are 1,180,188 more votes from Spaniards who do not want you to be president,” the spokesperson reiterated.
These numbers, according to Lois, are proof that the formula with which the right has tried to win elections “for almost a century”, which is to “set Catalonia on fire, confront territories”, no longer works. And she accused the right of being “desperate because they consider the government to be their own right, but that is not the case.”
