Sunday, September 24, in Madrid, two days before the investiture. That is the appointment for a great “open event” called by the Popular Party, announced by its general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, just 24 hours after the call made by the former president of the government José María Aznar, for a civic and institutional mobilization against Pedro Sánchez’s attempt to “destroy the Constitution” with a possible approval of an amnesty and to recognize the right to self-determination.
An event that will have a previous one, the one that the PP of Galicia has called, with the presence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Sunday in Santiago de Compostela. The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, will also take part in it, and a thousand people are expected to attend. In both events, Feijóo, as sources from the PP leadership assure La Vanguardia, will outline the axes of his investiture speech, and that is why the one on Sunday in Galicia will have as its motto “For the equality of the Spanish people”, since Equality will be the axis of his intervention in Congress and of his hypothetical government, if he were to become president.
The difference between the two events will be the open nature of the one in Madrid, on the 24th. Not only because the PP wants to do it outdoors, but because while the one in Santiago will be a typical rally, the one in the Spanish capital is expected to have of all those who do not think like the PP or are not supporters, but who are interested in listening to what “the candidate for the presidency of the government of Spain” offers. The same sources emphasize that it is an event organized by the PP and is not open to other parties joining the call. Feijóo will take center stage, without any other political leader from any other party. There will not be another photo of Colón, but that of the president of the PP and candidate for the presidency of the government speaking to whoever wants to listen to him.
According to PP sources, the focus of the Madrid rally will be on “the equality of Spaniards”, although they recognize that given the social debate that is taking place around Pedro Sánchez’s intentions to comply with the demands of the independence supporters of approve an amnesty law and the right to self-determination, references are assured. “But if the debate on the amnesty were not there, the event would be held the same,” they point out.
With this, the PP tries to demonstrate that the decision to hold these rallies does not respond to José María Aznar’s proposal to mobilize civil society. The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, when announcing the Madrid event, on Antena 3, stressed that it was about “society being able to participate in the rejection of any instrument that, outside the law, Sánchez promotes to get votes in exchange power”. The number two of the PP considered it “necessary” that “those of us who do not agree with the amnesty, the self-determination referendum and the breakdown of equality between Spaniards mobilize and demonstrate.”
In fact, the PP leadership claims that already on Monday, at the lunch after the national board of directors that Feijóo held with the barons, there was already talk of holding this type of act, before Aznar proposed it. However, when several PP barons were consulted on the matter, they maintained contrary versions. While some maintain that there was talk of a political act, never of a demonstration, others assure that it was not put on the table and that there was only talk of accelerating the motions in the regional parliaments and city councils in favor of equality and against amnesty
