Alberto Núñez Feijóo has risen another step this Saturday in his criticism of the PSOE, accusing the ruling party – in office and in coalition with Unidas Podemos – of “corruption” for its agreements with the Catalan independentists. The leader of the PP maintains that the socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez, intends to “buy the Government of Spain” with public money, by accepting as a condition for his investiture, among others, a forgiveness of 20% of Catalonia’s debt and a law of amnesty for those accused of processes. “Changing votes due to impunity is corruption, and buying the presidency of the Government of Spain with citizens’ money is corruption,” Feijóo said at the closing of the Basque PP congress in Vitoria. The popular leader, who has maintained that the PP is “the constitutional alternative to the PSOE”, has also directed his attacks against the PNV, the party from which the PP wants to win part of the electorate in the Basque elections expected for next spring. . The PNV, a party that until a few weeks ago Feijóo was trying to court for his failed investiture, has become “the troupe of Sanchismo,” he has stated.
Feijóo continues to raise decibels in his speech against the PSOE in a context of great tension on the right. The popular ones recognize that their social bases are very excited since the agreement that the socialists have signed with ERC for Sánchez’s investiture became known on Thursday, which includes not only the amnesty but more than 15,000 million for the forgiveness of 20% of Catalonia’s debt with the State. The PP believes that this last issue agitates citizens even more than the pardon for the independentists, and hence the crescendo of criticism of the PSOE that focuses on the public money involved in the pact with the Catalan parties (although the socialists assure that the rest of the autonomous communities could benefit from a similar condonation). “It disgusts me that Sánchez uses public money to become president of the Government,” Feijóo stressed. “It disgusts me that he pardons the corrupt and rewards those who have wasted the most with better financing.”
The PP leadership warns that it will go “with everything”, “to the end”, to oppose Sánchez’s pact with the Catalan independentists, although it maintains that its limit will be to preserve the institutions, which “some want to destroy”, they affirm. in the Feijóo area. The leader of the PP believes that, despite the tension of the last few hours with Junts, the investiture will go ahead, and he has been turning up the pace in his speech since it became known that the PSOE was going ahead with the amnesty, suggesting that the socialists are out of the constitutional framework. “The PSOE has abandoned the Constitution,” Feijóo said this Saturday in Vitoria. “He is dedicated to forgiving corruption crimes, to letting criminals draft the Penal Code. “He creates political castes that can commit crimes and nothing happens to them,” he remarked.
Relief in the Basque PP
The tense atmosphere has infected the PP congress of the Basque Country, where the intention of the popular party was to convey 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 has garnered 97.39% of the votes in favor, the PP intends a return to the moderate line that it abandoned when the Former popular leader Pablo Casado replaced, due to political discrepancies, Alfonso Alonso with Carlos Iturgaiz, in February 2020. Now, the popular people want to export Feijóo’s Galician PP model in Euskadi, to attract voters from the PNV, to which they attribute management wear and tear . They recognize, however, that it will be very difficult to find a place if the elections are highly polarized between the Peneuvistas and Bildu, because useful votes will be activated towards the PNV of those who fear the access to power of the abertzales.
But the PNV is the popular objective to beat, and Feijóo and the newly elected leader of the Basque PP have directed all their invectives in a regional key against the Peneuvistas. “We are the management alternative to the PNV. Giving up being decisive in Spanish politics to be a Sanchismo troupe has been a mistake that the Basques are not going to forgive,” Feijóo claimed, alluding to the negotiation that Andoni Ortuzar’s party is having with the PSOE to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “The PNV is another satellite in the Sanchista orbit,” Javier de Andrés has insisted along the same lines. “They are the first in the class to apply Irene Montero’s social program [la ministra de Igualdad en funciones] and the economic project of Pedro Sánchez.”
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