The president of the PP begins the political course in Pontevedra presenting himself as the leader of moderation and denouncing the attacks by members of the Government on his person
Moderation, education and dialogue. This is the recipe that Alberto Núñez Feijóo proposes before the political course that begins this September and that will conclude in 2023 with a general election, after which the leader of the PP aspires to evict Pedro Sánchez from Moncloa. Something in which, to this day, the surveys predict favorable forecasts. “Spain is not for egomaniacs and selfishness,” Feijóo proclaimed before adding that the above “are traits of weakness.”
The president of the popular surrounded himself with his territorial barons and former president Mariano Rajoy in the Pontevedra municipality of Cerdedo-Cotobade – it is difficult to imagine another scenario for Feijóo than Galicia for a mass bath – to launch economic proposals and present himself as a victim of a campaign of unprecedented discredit from the socialist ranks and United We Can, whom he accused of reaching the point of comparing him to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the economic aspect, he criticized that Spain is “the last of the class” to recover the wealth prior to the pandemic. «The labor market begins to suffer. They are not taking advantage of European funds, as all the regional presidents claim and we have an unaffordable debt », he argued. Despite the, in his opinion, terrible economic and political situation, Feijóo took it for granted that there will be no early elections, something that both the Prime Minister and the PSOE have actively and passively ruled out, even more so when Spain has the rotating presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2023. And it is that the socialists bet part of their cards that the international showcase of their leader offers extra support at the polls.
The first battle between Sánchez and Feijóo, therefore, will take place in the municipal and regional elections next May. At this point, the leader of the popular ones took advantage of the extensive and successive victories of his formation in the Community of Madrid, Castilla y León and Andalusia. He focused especially, under the watchful eye of Isabel Díaz Ayuso from Madrid, on “the fashionable politician in 2022”: the Andalusian Juanma Moreno.
The president of the PP criticizes that the Government compares him with Vladimir Putin
On Thursday, socialist sources branded the president of the PP little less than a puppet in the hands of Ayuso. In response, Feijóo assured that his is a party that dialogues, both inside and outside doors. He presented himself as a leader who, unlike Sánchez, will not offer “monologues to be applauded without further ado.” On the contrary, he «he will listen because the single thought has no place in the PP». He did not refer to Vox during his speech, although he did reach out to both disenchanted socialist voters and “those who left the PP and can vote for it again” against Sánchez.
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“I don’t care that the ministers take turns to insult me or that they interrupt their vacations to read the arguments that Moncloa sends,” said Feijóo, before adding that what is worrying is that the coalition government “has stopped governing and survives delivered to Bildu». The president of the PP thus responded to demonstrations such as that of María Jesús Montero. According to the opinion of the number two of the PSOE and Minister of Finance, the Galician politician “does not measure up” to govern Spain because he “cannot even control his party”, in reference to Díaz Ayuso. This is precisely an argument with which the PSOE plans to hit Feijóo again and again.
Feijóo concluded by reaffirming that “the duty of the PP is moderation.” Quite the opposite of what Sánchez pointed out during his tour of Latin America this week. “This PP is even more radical than Casado’s,” said the Prime Minister.
On the eve of three elections, it seems almost impossible for the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition to close agreements such as the renewal of the Constitutional Court and the General Council of the Judiciary or energy savings. The electoral campaign begins in September.
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