“Concern about the international dimension of the judicial investigations that are addressing the President of the Government, his family, his Government and his party and the significance it is having in the European chancelleries.” With these words he referred in Brussels this Thursday Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the “situation of institutional and political crisis” that our country is experiencing, in his opinion.
The leader of the PP went to the community capital to meet with his colleagues from the European People’s Party (EPP). He also took the opportunity to have bilateral meetings with the president of the European Commission Úrsula Von der Leyen and the president of the EPP Manfred Weber. The popular leader has once again persisted in his strategy of elevating domestic issues to an international level.
Feijóo listed the judicial situation of both Begoña Gómez and Begoña Gómez’s brother. Pedro Sanchezinvestigated by justice. He also highlighted that “half the Government” is indicated by the reports of the Civil Guard of the Koldo case and that the PSOE “it is investigated”. This last point is based on the complaint supported by anonymous witnesses presented by the PP, and which has not yet been admitted for processing.
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office rejects it and the National Court has not yet admitted it for processing. The leader of the PP has also put on the table the accusation of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortíz. A “unprecedented situation in the Spanish rule of law”, as he considers.
“You can imagine that colleagues have shown their concern about the judicial situation of the Government and the president’s environment,” Feijóo added. “All the European media know about it. We are suffering enormous reputational damage to our country and I regret that Spain is a protagonist in the main international media,” he highlighted.
For the PP, this is a situation that Spain has never experienced and warns about its “concern” about the rule of law. “It is not a domestic controversy because Spanish justice is European justice. The Spanish press is the European press and the health of Spanish democracy is the health of democracy in the EU. “We are going to prevent the EU from seeing the fourth largest euro economy involved in a judicial situation that has never happened in these long years of democracy,” Feijóo concluded.
The PP’s strategy of turning to Brussels is not new, it was already used in a similar way during Casado’s time
The PP’s strategy of turning to Brussels is not new. In fact, already in the stage with Pablo Casado in front it was used in a similar way. Especially with the distribution of European fundswhere the popular ones charged harshly against the Government with little success in the EU since the concessions were made with congratulations from the community institutions to the Sánchez Executive. In fact, the previous leader of the PP even accused the President of the Government of lying in Europe and stated that they were going to “catch” him for it.
The Popular Party also came to charge in Brussels against the labor reform in the 2019 General State Budget. Already with Feijóo, the PP criticized a pension reform precisely agreed with Brussels. Sánchez responded accusing him of “disloyalty” and to surpass Casado in that strategy.
The renewal of General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) It has also had an important role from Brussels. The PP has used the EU to such an extent that they asked for its mediation to reach an agreement with the Government after more than five years of blockade. It finally arrived in the way that Sánchez’s Executive wanted, in accordance with the current system and after several urgent calls from community institutions.
Another point that the PP has sought to maneuver has been the amnesty law. “Europe has to stop this massive attack on the rule of law,” Feijóo even said. Feijóo’s party requested a report from the Venice Commission to evaluate the law. What arrived was interpreted by the Government as an endorsement and the PP has not achieved its objective, which was for the European Commission to reject the content of this law.
“Blessed patriot”
Feijóo’s statements in Brussels have not gone unnoticed by the Government. Before the media, the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory Angel Victor Torres He “deeply regretted” them because “there is nothing worse than a Spaniard who leaves Spain to put Spain in a bad light because he is not President of the Government.”
For the Government, according to Torres, the PP is “desperate” after a “horrible week” and they are seeking to “get out of their own mistakes” with criticism or “insults” to Sánchez and the Executive. “Blessed patriot,” said Torres, who has asked the PP to stop “judicialize public life.”
Sources from the PSOE leadership describe Feijóo as a “a patriot from Hacendado who speaks ill of Spain abroad.” Faced with this, the socialists highlight that Spain is growing four times more than the eurozone, more jobs are created than France and Italy combined, and that this week our country’s economic forecasts have been updated upwards again.
“Feijóo doesn’t want to talk about this when he travels. He prefers stain the name of Spain and show the perverse nature of the only strategy his party has: not accepting the will of the Spanish people freely expressed at the polls on July 23, 2023,” they add in Ferraz.
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