Alberto Núñez Feijóo has departed this Monday from the PP’s strategy of ignoring Vox in the European campaign and has questioned its anti-Europeanism and that the MEPs of Santiago Abascal have voted against the migration pact in the European Union, despite the fact that his party co-governs with this formation in five autonomous governments. The leader of the PP has criticized Vox to argue that it is possible to reach an agreement with Georgia Meloni in Europe, trying to differentiate the Italian prime minister from the rest of the ultra-European forces. But in doing so he has put Vox in the bag of the “extreme right” formations with which he defends that the traditional right should not agree in Europe. Only in Spain, the PP not only makes an agreement, but governs with Vox, a contradiction that he has tried to overcome by arguing that joint governments provide “stability” and the PP is fulfilling its program.
Feijóo insisted this Monday on the thesis he advanced last week that he believes it is possible to reach agreements in the European institutions with the Italian prime minister. “What I have said and what I maintain is that Mrs. Meloni is defending the rule of law, she has signed the European immigration pact and declares herself pro-European,” defended the PP leader in an interview on Onda Cero. And he continued: “In the same way that perhaps Mr. Page [Emiliano García Page, presidente de Castilla- La Mancha] It is not comparable to the PSOE, at least from what it says, what it does is something else, because in that context I continue to say to Mrs. Meloni, it is not comparable to Mr. Orbán. [Viktor Orbán, primer ministro de Hungría]”.
The journalist Carlos Alsina reminded him that both Meloni and Orbán supported the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, at the kick-off rally in Madrid of their European campaign ten days ago. And Feijóo has then attacked Abascal’s party to differentiate it from Meloni. “Mrs. Meloni voted for the immigration pact and Mr. Abascal’s deputies voted against it. Meloni is pro-European and from what we see or hear some leaders of Abascal’s party are not, I think there are differences.” Feijóo’s position on Meloni caused discomfort in the PP last week, not so much because of the substance, because in the party the majority shares that the Italian prime minister has moderated her governance, but because of the timeliness of her words. Popular leaders believe that “it was not the time” to talk about alliances with the Italian prime minister, because she focuses on pacts with the extreme right, which is precisely the axis of the PSOE campaign.
Feijóo has been asked why he defends not making an agreement with the extreme right in Europe when his party has already agreed with the extreme right in the Valencian Community or in Castilla y León. “Look, I believe that the things we are doing in the autonomous communities can be described and can be concreted,” he replied. “We are complying with our entire electoral program, all the presidents in those autonomous communities are from the Popular Party and our electoral program has no contradictions.”
The PP leader has also spoken out about the war in Gaza and the recognition of the Palestinian State, which he believes would be counterproductive at this time because it would “empower Hamas.” Feijóo has also avoided describing the Israeli Government’s massacre in Gaza as genocide. “Israel has a war with Hamas. In wars international law must be respected. Hamas is a terrorist group and has murdered dozens of Palestinians, kidnapped them, raped them, continues to do so and consequently we are facing a regrettable war that we have to stop. And the urgent thing is to hand over the hostages, the ceasefire, the humanitarian aid and try to prevent this from spreading to the region,” he stated.
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The head of the opposition continues to defend the two-state solution, which the PP supported in Congress in 2014, but maintains that now is not the time to unilaterally recognize the Palestinian State, as Pedro Sánchez’s Council of Ministers will approve tomorrow. Tuesday. “I understand that the future depends on what we agreed in Spain ten years ago. A State of Israel and a Palestinian State,” he explained. “It is not easy to reach an agreement with those who do not want to agree because to recognize the Palestinian State, Palestine has to recognize the state of Israel,” Feijóo stressed.
The leader of the PP has also insisted on questioning the professional activity of the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, which she has made one of the axes of her speech in the European campaign. Feijóo persists in criticizing the actions of Sánchez’s wife, even though she was not a criminal. “I don’t know if it’s a crime, but it’s not pretty,” he said. Although the PP has not appeared in the case of influence peddling being investigated by a Madrid court, the head of the opposition has warned that if his party is archived, he could study an appeal. “The point is that in my country the president’s wife cannot do what she has done,” defended Feijóo, who does not let go of his grip. “She has criminal responsibility or not.”
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