“The fans are delighted”, they celebrated in La Moncloa after the surprising impact that Pedro Sánchez delivered at the investiture debate of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, having given the turn of reply to his most aggressive and combative spokesman, deputy Óscar Puente, ex-mayor of Valladolid, whose unexpected and forceful intervention, they assured, left the leader of the PP “unsettled” and his whole group “very busy”.
Instead of defending his political program and his country project, in Moncloa they regretted that Feijóo “came to hold a rally for his people”, based on the attack against Sánchez’s investiture, as in the act of the PP on Sunday in Madrid, so they responded with “another rally for our people”. And the institutionality? “We already saw it with the PP deputies calling the president a coward”, they criticized. “The PP has lost its papers”, they concluded. Mission, therefore, accomplished.
Óscar Puente has – according to the opinion of Sánchez’s reduced hard core who secretly kept his surprise – the most suitable profile to put the leader of the PP “in front of the mirror of all his contradictions”. And dynamit the “castle of cards” of Feijóo’s plea to rule the list with the most votes.
Puente was the candidate with the most votes in the May 28 municipal elections in Valladolid, the capital of which he had been mayor since 2015. But the PP and Vox alliance evicted him. “From winner to winner”, addressed Feijóo. “Since we are on equal terms, why does he have more right to be president of the Government than I have to be mayor of my city?”, he asked.
“In a parliamentary democracy, whoever manages to form a government wins”, he explained, according to the constitutional mandate. “I recognized my defeat, despite being the most voted”, he admitted. And he reprimanded the leader of the PP that “he has not yet learned to lose, and it is in the opposition where the political stature is given”. Puente invested Feijóo. The difference, they alleged in the PSOE, is that the PP leader’s speech was a “bombardment of false data”, while Puente “has not told a single lie”.
“You are neither president nor trustworthy”, he reproached Feijóo. “He doesn’t have the support to be president of the Spanish Government, and very soon he won’t have the support to continue presiding over his party either,” he told him. Puente accused Feijóo of paying homage to Vox: “The PP is so degraded that it has ended up being parasitized by the extreme right”. And he attacked the alleged cases of corruption, illegal financing and excessive salaries of the PP, in addition to reprimanding Feijóo for “his close friendship with a drug trafficker”. He even aligned Feijóo with the “most rancid” PP of Galicia, “that great family portrayed in Fariña”.
Puente criticized that the PP calls for “rebellion” in the PSOE, in search of another tamayazo. “Lose all hope of breaking this PSOE”, he urged. “It may not be the same PSOE of thirty years ago, but don’t get nostalgic, because they did the same thing to the PSOE of thirty years ago, although some of those who led it then seem to have forgotten,” he criticized to Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra. “No one is anymore representative of this PSOE”, he concluded, because the party is “armored against external interference and belongs to its militants”.
