“The haste, the exaggerations and the grotesque caricature of the adversary are not typical of someone with the stature of a statesman if he really aspires to become president.” It was an intervention in Congress to respond to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in an extraordinary appearance for the management of DANA. But the PNV spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, wanted to take advantage of a few minutes to address Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the opposition, who just a few days before had appealed to the investiture partners to accompany him in a motion of censure.
Esteban had gone up to the podium angry at the political climate in which the debate was being held. “There comes a time when the noise makes the debate incomprehensible and prevents true reflection on the issues being addressed,” he said. And although he directed some criticism at Sánchez and asked him to act with “transparency” about the cases that “surround his training,” he did not take long to criticize Feijóo for demanding a motion of censure following the statements of businessman Víctor de Aldama against the president.
“You do not wait even a day to consider the accusations of a confessed criminal valid to launch a vague announcement of a motion of censure and, furthermore, appealing to third parties for statements from a person arrested for hydrocarbon fraud who needs something to circumvent the prohibition.” , provisional prison and involved in countless shady businesses. “A guy with more shells than a turtle,” he began.
He also criticized him for having “jeopardized the European alliance” during the negotiation of the new European Commission by trying to boycott the appointment of Teresa Ribera as commissioner, “pushing the European People’s Party towards the extreme right in the midst of a global geostrategic crisis.” .
These criticisms of Feijóo in an appearance in which the focus of the debate was focused on Sánchez are relevant since the opposition leader had only a few days ago tried to undermine the confidence of the Government by asking his parliamentary partners to accompany him in a motion of censure. “I do not have the votes to change the Government, but if any of the partners want to end this, they should know that I am available to open a new stage,” Feijóo had said in an appearance in Congress.
In an appearance without questions, he accused Sánchez of having “involved” in “political, economic and moral corruption,” after Aldama testified before the judge about money deliveries to José Luis Ábalos, Koldo Izaguirre or the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos. Cerdan.
The call to the partners that Feijóo made had a clear recipient. The same one who six years ago supported a motion of censure, in that case to overthrow Mariano Rajoy’s Government. Just after, in addition, having given their votes for the General State Budgets that seemed to seal the continuity of the legislature. The difference is that at that time the corruption had not been reported by a “confessed criminal”, as Esteban described it on Wednesday, but had been confirmed by the National Court, which condemned the PP as a lucrative participant in the Gürtel case.
Perhaps for this reason, the Jeltzale spokesman accused Feijóo of being in a hurry. “The only thing it shows is haste and lack of balance when it comes to properly weighing depending on which issues. Values or policies could be at risk. As if coming to power justified everything. Don’t run. You see what happened to Albert Rivera, don’t even try to conquer heaven by storm. You already know what happened to Pablo Iglesias. Nor would it be bad for him to make an act of contrition with the Valencian administration, if he is still interested in becoming president of the Government one day. I know that you and I are little alike, but that’s how I would do it,” he concluded.
The leader of the PP responded that he was in no hurry and tried to be conciliatory. “I’m not in a hurry, ask your Junts colleagues. “I’m not going to get there in any way,” he told her. “It’s true that we don’t know each other much, but it can be solved,” he added.
This intersection between both leaders, who are part of political forces that have understood each other in the past on numerous occasions, is not the first that they have carried out in this legislature, which began marked precisely by the opposition of the jeltzales to a PP government for its dependence on Vox. “There is a whale in the pool. Vox’s 33 votes are essential. Furthermore, those 33 votes would continue to be essential during the legislature. The whale is of a size that is impossible to hide,” he told him in the debate during his frustrated investiture. “Alberto, your tractor’s engine has seized from using Vox oil,” he joked a few months later. Esteban has also had strong clashes with the PP spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, whom one day he even called “clumsy.”
But the distance between both formations is not just words. Precisely on the day that Feijóo made that appeal to the partners, the Government managed to move forward with the investiture bloc the fiscal reform that led to the General State Budgets, with the vote of the PNV included. And this week the Executive promised to carry out the transfers of powers that were pending with Euskadi.
He did so in a meeting in Moncloa between Sánchez and the Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, within the framework of the Bilateral Cooperation Commission of the State Administration-Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and as part of the investiture agreements signed by PSOE and PNV. “A positive, satisfactory assessment,” Esteban said the next day in statements in the halls of Congress in which he appreciated that the competence of the coast had been transferred or the conversations that both presidents had regarding the creation of an “Atlantic macroregion.” European”, as well as the promotion of instruments for the labor insertion of migrants. “A very positive meeting that fulfills the investiture agreement that the PNV and the President of the Government signed,” he summarized.
Sánchez’s partners support him in the cases against his family
Spokesman Jeltzale also gave his opinion on the case that affects Sánchez’s brother, accused of alleged favorable treatment in his hiring in “senior management” positions in the Badajoz Provincial Council. “A lot of the data they presented does not seem to be correct, for example in terms of the person’s assets,” he said after the Civil Guard ruled out that his assets were 1.4 million euros as reported by the pseudo-syndicate Hands Cleans. “It doesn’t seem like there was anything suspicious about the creation of the plaza. This will have to continue. The court will have to take the appropriate steps as I believe has been done until now,” he added later.
Other partners of the Government also came out these days to defend the Government in a cause for which they see no future. Among them Sumar. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, said that “parallel trials” are not welcome in democracy. In an interview this Friday on National Radio he stated that politics “is something too important to convert a ‘modus operandi’ of destroying a Government into the judicialization of everything.”
“The desire to accuse the president’s closest entourage has been around for a long time,” said ERC spokesperson Gabriel Rufián, who believes that “there is absolutely nothing” in the case that affects Sánchez’s brother, a case He said more in the halls of Congress, within a “judicial offensive” against the Government.
Even Junts defended this week that the case is part of a persecution, although it reproached the PSOE for collaborating in the past in similar maneuvers against the Catalan independence leaders. “It is not a surprise for us,” said the party’s spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras. “In fact, it is a ‘modus operandi’ in which the PSOE has also participated, for example, persecuting the independentists,” he added to wonder if “lawfare” will continue to matter when it stops affecting the PSOE.
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