Feijóo reminds Sánchez’s partners of the motion of censure against Rajoy in 2018: “Review your position and be consistent”

In Brussels, and before all the community partners of the European People’s Party (EPP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo has internationalized (once again) the suspicions of corruption that fall heavily on the Government of Pedro Sanchez. A maelstrom that started in February with the arrest of Koldo García Izaguirreman of maximum confidence of the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalosand far from subsiding, it has been increasing month by month. According to the leader of the PP, the corruption plot investigated by the UCO would have its echo in the rest of Europe and the “worry” of its community partners with the Koldo case and its derivatives would be more than palpable.

“It is evident that we are facing a vital emergency from an institutional point of view”Feijóo said at the press conference after his meeting with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenwith whom a meeting was held that, in principle, was not on the PP leader’s agenda. Feijóo took the opportunity to update the leader of the Community Executive, among other issues, about the judicial siege that the Government is experiencing and the indictment this Wednesday of the State Attorney General, Alvaro Garcia Ortizto whom the opposition leader dedicated a good part of his appearance.

“How is someone who is accused precisely of breaking it being able to defend legality? What could be more serious for a prosecutor than the highest court in your country investigating you?“Feijóo has asked himself, emphasizing again and again the “reputational damage” that this situation entails for Spain. The news has only intensified the PP’s siege on García Ortiz, whom the Popular Party has been asking for his resignation for months.

For all these reasons, the PP has been appealing for days in a more or less sibylline way to the political formations that keep Sánchez in power. This is what Feijóo himself did in the final bars of his speech, appealing to a “responsibility” that “also extends” to the “partners” of a “Government that is in a minority.” In this context, a fact flies over the sentimental geography of the PP: the motion of censure to Mariano Rajoy which evacuated the PP from power in June 2018 and marked the arrival of Sánchez to the Moncloa Palace. In that political turnaround, the balance tipped when the PNV changed sides a week after supporting the General State Budgets.

“It remains to be seen who remains on the side of the Government, muddying and muddying Spanish political life”has tried to put Feijóo between a rock and a hard place, mainly, to the jeltzales and the post-convergent members of Junts. “I advise their partners to review their position and to be consistent with some of their previous decisions and to keep in mind that, in the end, changes in countries are sometimes inevitable,” he explained, since, in the eyes of Feijóo, “a political change in Spain is inevitable at this moment.” “Will it last longer or less will depend on the President of the Government, his Government, the pace of judicial investigations and the support of his Government partners and his parliamentary partners.”