1694645191 The PP is calling for a law rejecting the amnesty

The PP is calling for a law rejecting the amnesty two days before Feijóo’s inauguration

The PP is calling for a law rejecting the amnesty

The PP has surrendered to the opposition ahead of the investiture debate of its candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The Popular Party announced this Wednesday that they will hold an “open” event for society in Madrid on Sunday September 24th – just two days before Feijóo presents his candidacy for the presidency of the government to Congress on September 26th will show that they reject the possibility of an amnesty for those accused of the Catalan independence process as a basis for negotiating the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. The call comes a day after former President José María Aznar called for a large social mobilization against this hypothetical amnesty, similar to the Basta Ya! movement. against ETA terrorism.

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Shortly after the announcement, the PP leadership clarified that the event would not be a “demonstration” or a “protest,” but rather an open speech by Feijóo to defend “the equality of Spaniards.” And he assured that the leader had already communicated this to his territorial barons in a private meeting after the National Board of Directors last Monday; that is, it does not respond to Aznar’s call.

The PSOE spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, responded to the Popular Party’s announcement by describing the call as “a demonstration to attack the socialists.” What does the PP propose for Spain? What are your priorities? “Why do you want to govern?” was asked and the answer was: “Answer: nothing.” He assures that the people are taking this measure to “pay attention to or obey Aznar, Ayuso and Co.,” and that they do this “to seek confrontation and confrontation between citizens.”

Early on Wednesday, the Secretary General of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, announced the PP’s new movement in an interview on Antena 3: “On the weekend of September 23rd and 24th, the PP itself will promote a great event in Madrid, which will be open , so that society can participate and reject any proposed instrument outside the law.” Feijóo’s number two recalled that the PP had already announced that it would oppose the amnesty both at the institutional level, with the motions submitted by the people in city councils and regional parliaments will bring in, as well as in the “citizen mobilizations” and that this is the case. The event in Madrid corresponded to this area.

Feijóo then specified that the event – ​​which he did not define as a “demonstration” or “concentration” – will take place in the Plaza de España in Madrid. “We will hold a PP event like we did in Retiro and other places, and [podrá asistir] “Any citizen who wants to appear: the DNI is not required at PP rallies,” he explained in an interview on Trece television, in which the popular leader called on “all constitutionalists” to “defend the Spanish Constitution and the need” . We must make state agreements to get out of this prison that the independents and Mr. Sánchez want to put us in,” it says José M. Abad Liñán.

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The announcement was therefore interpreted as a call by the PP for a rally or demonstration in Madrid against the amnesty. However, shortly afterwards, sources from Feijóo’s direct team retracted the statement, explaining that it was not a “citizen demonstration” or a “protest”, but rather “an open event with a speech by Feijóo before the investiture”. . “An act on the street in defense of the equality of Spaniards” in which “the formats will be determined” but which will definitely not be a demonstration. They also stated that it will be on the 24th.

Génova wants to prevent this act from being interpreted as a demonstration against the negotiations of the government and the independence parties, precisely because it would put the PP in the contradiction of exercising the leadership of the opposition, although it is their responsibility to attempt investiture. But other party spokesmen later explained it differently and confused the matter: “It is obvious that in Spain there is a public outcry in the streets against the claims of Pedro Sánchez, in response to the requests of a fugitive from justice to receive a sentence “A handful of seats that keep him at the head of the government,” said Deputy Minister Miguel Tellado, one of the leaders closest to Feijóo. “We believe that we are giving expression to this popular agitation, and we are obliged to give an outlet to citizen fatigue that has had enough of concessions and concessions, of blackmail. And that is why we will take to the streets no more and no less than to defend our democracy and our constitution,” he added.

The other problem for Feijóo is that the sequence of events may suggest that he was acting on Aznar’s orders. The former Prime Minister called on Tuesday, at the opening of the FAES campus, for a large citizen mobilization against the “constitutional self-destruction” that, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez is preparing with the approval of the amnesty. Aznar used the reference of Enough Now!, as in the times of ETA terrorism. And just 24 hours later, the PP is calling for a street rally against the amnesty, regardless of what form it ultimately takes.

However, Génova insists that it is not following Aznar’s dictates, claiming that it had already considered this movement before and that Feijóo had actually discussed it with the PP’s territorial barons in a private meeting on Monday at the National Executive Board. Some of them confirmed that they discussed mobilization at this meeting, but did not give a date. “It is true that it has been talked about and [Feijóo] He asked us our opinion. The day wasn’t over yet. But yes, this was already thought of before Aznar’s intervention yesterday,” says one of them. However, Feijóo himself said nothing in his open speech before the National Executive Board and defended in an interview in La Razón a day earlier that he preferred to act with “dialogue and discussions in parliaments rather than on the streets”.

Catalan civil society called for a demonstration on Tuesday against the pro-independence parties’ demands for amnesty and self-determination. The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has confirmed her participation in this march, which will take place on October 8th in Barcelona. Feijóo has not said whether he will attend. For now, the PP leader is shrugging off pressure with a half-hearted format while the party struggles to explain it.

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