“I find it disturbing”, Pedro Sánchez warned yesterday, just three days before the 23rd. “It is disturbing that a political leader has had such close relations with a drug trafficker, and this concern is shared by millions of Spaniards”, assured the President of the Government about the friendship that the current leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, maintained in the past with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado.
Sánchez denounced that Feijóo, favorite according to the polls to win the elections, “lied again” when the day before he alleged that when the controversial photograph was taken with the Galician narco on his yacht, in the summer of 1995, he did not know that Dorado was a drug trafficker.
These explanations, as Sánchez assured La Sexta yesterday, “are a lie”. Feijóo, in his opinion, “has lost an opportunity to really clarify his relationship with this drug trafficker”. The excuses that at that time there was no Google or internet, as the leader of the PP justified, “fall by their own weight”, he said.
Sánchez already brought up this controversial relationship between Feijóo and Dorado in the only face-to-face he had with the leader of the PP at the start of this campaign. But very cryptically, when he emphasized that, unlike Feijóo, his travels “by land, by air and by sea” are transparent.
The leader of the PSOE alleged that if he has not been more explicit until now, it is because he is defending a “positive” electoral campaign.
But yesterday the journalist Antonio García Ferreras asked him directly. And Sánchez emphasized his concern, and reiterated that Feijóo “lied” when he assured that he did not know that Dorado was a drug trafficker. The leader of the PP, he warned, “has a debt to the Spanish and to the truth”.
The head of the Executive, in addition, tried to cover one of the ways that penalizes him the most in front of the socialist electorate itself, and which inject energy into the right-wing campaign thanks to the joint strategy of ERC and EH Bildu, when he rejected with total force the claim of these pro-independence formations, if he succeeds in revalidating the presidency of the Government after 23-J. “There will be no referendum on self-determination”, affirmed Sánchez conclusively. “Clearly not”, he said.
The president insisted, thus, on giving a resounding knock on the door to the aspirations of ERC and Bildu, and recalled that only when the PP was in power were illegal self-determination referendums held in Catalonia. The leader of the PSOE again showed his absolute conviction that he will win the elections on Sunday, thanks to a mobilization of the progressive vote that he said he had not felt for years. And, according to his team, he doesn’t talk for the sake of talking.
