Alberto Núñez Feijóo further intensified his criticism of the PSOE this Saturday, accusing the ruling party – in office and in coalition with Unidas Podemos – of “corruption” for its agreements with the Catalan independents. The leader of the PP claims that the Socialist candidate Pedro Sánchez wants to “buy the government of Spain” with public money by accepting, among other things, a cancellation of 20% of Catalonia’s debts and a law amnesty for the defendants in the trial as conditions for his inauguration. “Changing votes based on impunity is corruption, and buying the presidency of the Spanish government with citizens’ money is corruption,” Feijóo said at the conclusion of the Basque PP congress in Vitoria. The popular leader, who has claimed that the PP is “the constitutional alternative to the PSOE”, also directed his attacks against the PNV, the party from which the PP hopes to win part of the electorate in the Basque elections expected next spring. . The PNV, a party that until a few weeks ago tried to take Feijóo to court over his failed inauguration, has become the “parade of sanchismo,” he explained.
Feijóo continues to raise the decibels in his speech against the PSOE in a context of great tensions on the right. The popular parties recognize that their social base is very excited since the agreement that the Socialists signed with the ERC for the investiture of Sánchez was announced on Thursday, which included not only the amnesty but also more than 15,000 million for the remission The state accounts for 20% of Catalonia’s debt. The PP believes that this last issue upsets citizens even more than the pardon of the independents, and hence the crescendo of criticism of the PSOE, which focuses on the public funds included in the pact with the Catalan parties (although the Socialists assure that the rest of these Autonomous Communities could benefit from a similar remission). “It disgusts me that Sánchez is using public money to become president of the government,” emphasized Feijóo. “It disgusts me that he pardons the corrupt and rewards those who have wasted the most with better funding.”
The PP leadership warns that it will fight “with everything” and “to the end” against Sánchez’s pact with the Catalan independents, although it claims that its limit will be to preserve the institutions that it ” some want to destroy”. confirm. in the Feijóo area. The leader of the PP believes that the investiture will move forward despite the tensions with Junts in the last hours and he raises the tone in his speech since it was announced that the PSOE is carrying out the amnesty, suggesting that the Socialists are on the outside of the constitutional framework. “The PSOE has abandoned the constitution,” Feijóo said this Saturday in Vitoria. “He advocates for the forgiveness of corruption crimes and for criminals to be able to draft the criminal code. Political castes are emerging that can commit crimes and nothing will happen to them,” he noted.
Relief in the Basque PP
The tense atmosphere has gripped the PP Congress of the Basque Country, where the People’s Party’s intention was to project an image of moderation to compete with the PNV. With the election this Saturday of the journalist Javier de Andrés, former government delegate in the Basque Country between 2016 and 2018, who received 97.39% of the vote, the PP intends to return to the moderate line that it abandoned in the first election of popular leader Pablo Casado replaced Alfonso Alonso with Carlos Iturgaiz in February 2020 due to political disagreements. Now the popular parties want to export Feijóo’s Galician PP model in Euskadi to attract voters from the PNV, to which they attribute tearing management clothes. However, they recognize that if the elections are highly polarized between the Peneuvistas and Bildu, it will be very difficult to find a place, as useful votes will be activated for the PNV of those who fear the Abertzales’ access to power.
But the PNV is the popular target to beat, and Feijóo and the newly elected leader of the Basque PP have directed all their invective regionally at the Peneuvistas. “We are the management alternative to PNV. “It was a mistake that the Basques will not forgive, giving up the decisive role in Spanish politics to be a Sanchismo force,” claimed Feijóo, alluding to the negotiations that the party of Andoni Ortuzar with the PSOE to support the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez. “The PNV is another satellite in the Sanchista orbit,” emphasized Javier de Andrés in the same vein. “You are the first in the class to use Irene Montero’s social program [la ministra de Igualdad en funciones] and the economic project of Pedro Sánchez.”
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