Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, called on citizens this Friday to “be vigilant in a responsible way” in the face of the terrorist threat posed by the war in Gaza and recent Islamist attacks in France and Belgium. During an interview on Telecinco, Feijóo complained that he lacked official information about the risk situation and suggested that the anti-terrorism pact should have been convened. Although he assured that at this time it is necessary to send “a message of responsible calm”, he explained: “We see our partners and neighbors in a situation of tension and we are not excluded from this possibility, we must be cautious “We ask citizens to be responsibly vigilant and exercise caution.” The popular leader stressed that he lacked information about what Spain was doing in the Gaza conflict because Pedro Sánchez neither called nor informed him. And he has doubled down on his commitment to a repeat election: “Instead of having a government that aims to ruin Spain’s ability to govern for years to come, it is of course better to consult the Spanish people by January 14th!”
The anti-terrorism alert in Spain remains enhanced at level 4 (out of five). Feijóo avoided commenting on whether it would be necessary to raise this alert level and push it to the maximum (implying that there is an imminent attack), but he made a request to citizens: “We “But we believed it days ago.” We didn’t manage to explain that the anti-terror pact had to be concluded. And today there is a meeting at the Ministry of the Interior (…) We ask citizens to be vigilant and responsible.”
The leader of the PP recognized the value of the above-mentioned meeting this afternoon inside, where the acting minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska wants to inform the parliamentary groups about the situation related to the war between Israel and Hamas. But he immediately stressed that the president of the government was keeping him in the dark on the matter – “Sánchez does not speak to me and has not given me any information about the terrorist situation” – and that the executive has not informed the PP of the role it intends , either. Play Spain. “We do not know the role of Spain in the Gaza conflict, which we have to resolve because people are dying, with very harsh acts of war,” Feijóo said, adding that Sánchez should have gone to Israel: “Of course I would have gone there.” Israel ! I would have contacted the Palestinian Authority and called them [el primer ministro, Benjamín] Netanyahu, of course. It would have been my duty if I had been president [europeo] on duty,” he noted. However, he has confessed that he does not know whether the sitting president made those calls.
Feijóo has asked Sánchez to fire Ione Belarra, minister of social rights, over her comments on the conflict. “We are making fools of ourselves. These statements cannot be made from an official office, with the flag behind it. At Belarra you can only stop them; If I were president of the government, I would do that. “If Pedro Sánchez fires her now, he could no longer be elected president because he needs the five votes of Ms. Belarra and her colleagues,” he noted.
Returning to the negotiations on the investiture of Pedro Sánchez and a possible amnesty for those accused of the trial: Feijóo has insisted on his commitment to repeat the elections, the option he prefers given the evolution of the negotiations. “Of course, before a government whose crew aims to sink the ship of the Spanish government for years to come, it is better to consult the Spanish by January 14th!” he concluded. “There is no Spaniard who knows what Mr. Sánchez is negotiating about because he is hiding it, because he did not want to answer the questions I asked him in my investiture debate and because there is absolute obscurantism and he does not show up.”
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The clues to the content of the negotiations are those published by the pro-independence parties themselves, on whose votes the investiture depends, he said. And he cited as an example the intervention of Catalan President Pere Aragonès on Thursday in the Senate: “Aragonès assumes that the amnesty has been agreed and that it is the prelude to the referendum.” If Sánchez heard what he said a few years ago who had said amnesty, a motion of censure would be filed [a sí mismo] for what he says now. Unfortunately, what happens in Spain will not be decided in Spain, but in Brussels, because it will be decided by the former President of the Generalitat, Mr [Carles] Puigdemont [fugado en ese país]. If Puigdemont wants there to be elections, there will be elections.”
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