Before his completely transformed new leadership, which met this Thursday at the National Executive Committee, Alberto Núñez Feijóo explained to his people the opposition strategy that he aims for the new phase. And the message that has been sent to the hard core is that there will be no half measures, but maximum rigor, in line with the PP’s vision of the Pedro Sánchez government as “the most radical of 45 years of democracy”. “We will respond with a proportionate and proportionate opposition to the radical government that Spain has today,” Feijóo assured the PP leadership.
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The PP leader appeared defiant towards the progressive coalition government, warning it that he would not allow himself to be “intimidated” or “influenced” over his opposition strategy. “Sánchez wants a puppet of me,” Feijóo even said. “And neither me nor us,” he emphasized. The head of the Conservatives wanted to know what is being negotiated abroad and who the mediators are, referring to the first meeting that the socialist Santos Cerdán and the leader of the Junts, Carles Puigdemont, will hold this Saturday after the inauguration.
“They will not silence us,” stressed the challenger Feijóo in his speech to the leadership, emphasizing that the PP “will not be forgiven by those who want to undermine the institutions day after day and month after month.” “The only one Humility in today’s Spain is that which the government has towards the independence movement,” stressed the PP leader, maintaining the defiant tone that warns that the PP is preparing for a full-scale opposition. “We will represent the half of Spain that they want to isolate and ignore,” defended Feijóo, who proposes to his people “to pursue a responsible policy towards a reactionary government.”
The tone of the PP leader and the wording of his speech, such as that he will neither be “a puppet” nor “intimidated” by the “most radical government in the 45 years of democracy,” suggest that in the present The legislative period that has begun, there is room for state agreements between the Sánchez executive and the PP. Feijóo did not indicate in his speech the need for consensus or the impending agreement to renew the General Council of Justice, although this morning Sánchez proposed inviting the leader of the PP to deal with this folder in the coming days.
Instead, Feijóo has demanded to know the conditions of the meeting between Cerdán and Puigdemont, about which the Prime Minister gave few details in an interview on TVE this morning, without confirming whether the meeting with Junts will take place on Saturday in Geneva (Switzerland). . something that was taken for granted. The identity of the examiner is also not known. “Why does Spain have to negotiate its future abroad?” asked the leader of the PP. “Who are the intermediaries? What are they negotiating? How often and what things are negotiated? And who will pay for what is negotiated outside of Congress and the Senate, even outside of our country’s government?
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The popular leader has also issued internal messages urging his people to act as one and avoid division. He didn’t say it explicitly, but his words sounded like a call to maintain unity in the face of divisive issues such as debt relief or regional funding, on which the barons may have different positions, although there were also tensions in the background of Dome due to internal restructuring. “We know that we are facing a government without borders, both in its goals and in its practices and in its behavior. They will try to do to us what they do to Spain: they will manipulate us, confront us and lie to us. I don’t accept it and never will. “I will tell you clearly, and I ask nothing of you that I do not ask of myself: at a time like this, we have a duty to be the best versions of ourselves.”
Feijóo welcomed the new additions to his steering committee, but above all he praised his squire Miguel Tellado, whom he appointed as parliamentary speaker and whose appointment has raised concerns in parts of the PP. Tellado highlighted his “work ability, intelligence and loyalty.” Faced with the hard core and the barons, albeit with notable absences such as the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the President of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, due to agenda problems, Feijóo has also reported that the veteran Javier Arenas will will be general secretary of the group in the Senate, while Macarena Montesinos will assume the same responsibility in Congress.
The PP leader described his new team as a group “that is trying to broaden the PP’s voter base”, “younger, social, more economical” and that “will not hand over a flag, neither to the PSOE nor to the PSOE.” his partners.” . Therefore, new deputy ministers for social affairs such as equality and sustainable development were added. “Spain deserves that we are a better opposition than the government,” he concluded by calling on his people.
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