The political scene worsens at times, as the investiture debate that Alberto Núñez Feijóo will face in just two weeks is approaching, without him having managed to articulate the parliamentary support sufficient to win it, and that will give way Pedro Sánchez’s turn.
In Moncloa and Ferraz already warned of the climate of “coup rebellion” which, according to socialist leaders, are encouraging right-wing political and media speakers to prevent whether or not a possible new investiture as president of the leader of the PSOE . Even with mobilizations and protests in the streets.
Thus, yesterday they did not hesitate to respond with the utmost force to the call of ex-president José María Aznar for citizen and institutional mobilization in defense of the Constitution and against the amnesty law demanded by Catalan independence in order to put the Sánchez’s investiture. “We will go very strong”, they reacted immediately in Moncloa. And so it was.
“It is of absolute seriousness”, warned the spokeswoman for the acting Executive, Isabel Rodríguez, that a former president of the Spanish government makes statements that, as she denounced, “are more like anti-democratic and coup-like behavior than their own of a former president”. Aznar’s statements, added the minister spokeswoman, “are incompatible with the democratic and constitutional values ??of our country”.
Rodríguez further raised the government’s reproach by recalling that it was precisely Aznar “who lied to the Spanish and who used the most important terrorist attack in our country”, when he tried to attribute the Atocha bombs to ETA to try to prevent the electoral victory of the socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2004. “Whoever did all this has little credibility and his statements have no political value, not even moral”, said the spokeswoman of the Executive.
And he put the spotlight on Feijóo, to claim – without success – that he demand an immediate rectification from Aznar, “for what his figure represents and the role he still has in the Popular Party”.
He justified the demand to Feijóo for “the interest of our country and the constitutional and democratic values ??that are our own, and that do not correspond to this type of behavior typical of anti-democratic systems and with calls for coups”.
“It is true that they are not new to the PP, we have seen them repeatedly, and I hope that this direction will be corrected. Because what would be next? The call for an uprising?”, questioned the spokeswoman for the Executive. “I expect the immediate reaction of Feijóo correcting these behaviors of Aznar”, said Isabel Rodríguez.
In any case, Moncloa and the leadership of the PSOE recognize that Aznar is the most important mobilizing and unifying agent of the left, as well as the best spur to once again form a progressive government in Spain.
And the Spanish Government also admits that the loss of electoral support for independence in Catalonia was reflected on Monday in the dwindling Diada demonstration. Which they assume that, if it doesn’t make it easier, at least it does leave Junts and ERC negotiating power for Sánchez’s investiture.
Despite the fact that in Moncloa they avoid conveying an image of satisfaction for the loss of dust and the division that independence showed – “we respect those who demonstrated at the Diada and those who did not”, they allege -, socialist leaders emphasize the loss of acceptance in Catalonia of “high-level pro-independence approaches”. And they ask that they lower their expectations for the negotiation of Sánchez’s investiture.
“Whenever you work with politics and dialogue, independence loses support. And it is with the confrontation of the PP that independence reached its highest levels of support”, they defend the Executive. “We will continue with politics and dialogue, and independence will continue to lose support”, they predict. But, for now, the socialists prefer to put all the focus on Aznar… and Feijóo.
