“The more resounding are the questions that harass the Popular Party, the more resounding is the silence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo,” Minister Pilar Alegría warned on Monday, after the meeting of a PSOE electoral committee that she once again placed in her political target the leader of the main opposition party. Pedro Sánchez himself triggered the tone of the electoral confrontation against the PP last week by removing from the trunk of memories that old photograph of Feijóo together with the Galician drug trafficker Marcial Dorado, aboard his yacht during the summer of 1995. An image that , in the opinion of the Socialists, will always accompany the current leader of the PP. And Minister Alegría has insisted today on attacking on this flank, also with a nautical simile: “Honestly, the normality with which Feijóo navigates in such murky waters is very worrying.”
Alluding to the case of former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo, Alegría insisted that the PSOE always reacts “forcefully” when it warns of some “embarrassing and shameful conduct” among its own ranks. And he has accused Feijóo, on the other hand, of hiding “in scandalous silence” in the face of other scandals that dot the PP. And he has listed the answers that the Socialists demand from the leader of the main opposition party. For example, if Xavier García Albiol “continues to be the head adviser” of Feijóo, after the Prosecutor’s Office requested three years of disqualification against the former mayor of Badalona. “Has Albiol been suspended from militancy?”, He has claimed to the PP.
Similarly, Minister Alegría has asked if the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz is still a PP militant, after the Prosecutor’s Office demands 15 years in prison for the Kitchen case, and now also for the judicial process against him for the Catalonia operation. And she has sued Feijóo to explain the asset increase of more than 10 million euros of the mayoress of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, who is still a PP senator. “I should give the public some explanation,” she has summoned. And she has announced that the socialist group in the Senate will demand from the municipalities of Marbella and Benahavis, and from the mayoress herself, the declaration of their assets, “and above all their origin”.
“What is happening in Andalusia?”, Alegría has also claimed Feijóo. He has thus referred to the alleged diversion by the president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, of “at least 117 million euros to private health, without any type of legal or budgetary control, and with allocations to hand”. All this, he has denounced, while Moreno Bonilla “fired more than 8,000 toilets.”
“A leader cannot constantly put himself in profile when the issues are so important,” Alegría criticized about Feijóo’s already announced abstention in Vox’s motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez, and about the more than calculated ambiguity that the Socialists attribute to the leader of the PP on the pension reform agreed by the Government. “When you put yourself in profile so many times, you end up disappearing,” the minister warned Feijóo. “A leader must have determination, and not hide when he has to define himself,” she has settled.
Regarding the debate on the motion of censure promoted by Vox with the alternative candidacy of veteran Ramón Tamames for the presidency of the Government, which will be held in Congress on March 21 and 22, Alegría has denounced that Feijóo “holds tightly to the extreme right without any kind of look”. And he has highlighted the “change of position” of the PP, since in the previous motion of no confidence presented by Vox, Feijóo’s predecessor, Pablo Casado, chose to vote against. Given the abstention now announced by the PP, the minister has warned that “this change in position is clearly close to the extreme right.”
In Feijóo’s service sheet since he won the leadership of the main opposition party, Alegría has warned “the absolute approach of the PP to the extreme right.” A change in the PP vote in Vox’s motion of no confidence, from Casado’s no to Feijóo’s abstention, which he has attributed to the fact that “he has no doubts about who he wants and who he needs to join in order to govern.”
