Feijóo advocates respect for the adversary in the midst of controversy over Ayuso's accusations against Sánchez

Political stability, respect for the adversary and dialogue between those who think differently but have the same values.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
09 November 2022 Wednesday 09:31
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Feijóo advocates respect for the adversary in the midst of controversy over Ayuso's accusations against Sánchez

Political stability, respect for the adversary and dialogue between those who think differently but have the same values. It is the declaration of principles by Alberto Núñez Feijóo on what political action should be based on, and he does so at a time when the break with the PSOE and with the Government is total, after suspending the negotiation for the renewal of the Judicial Power , and at a time when the socialists are asking the president of the PP to disavow Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for having said that Sánchez wants "the opposition in jail, like in Nicaragua."

Núñez Feijóo is not going to disavow Díaz Ayuso, at least directly, but he has made it very clear that this is not his style or his way of doing politics, that the president of the Community of Madrid is not his reference on how to do politics .

Feijóo's Thesis is that politics is now a struggle between those who advocate stability and instability, above a struggle between right and left, because he considers that reformists and progressives, which could be translated as popular and moderate, maintain the same values ​​and principles and if there is something that unites them it is the political stability that both need to be able to solve the problems of the people, from their different conceptions of politics.

A political stability that, in the opinion of Núñez Feijóo, has a few elements that unite reformists and progressives: Respect for the facts, respect for an orderly transition, respect for the adversary and respect for the pacts. Those who do not watch over these principles, in the opinion of the president of the PP, are those who, when the polls are not favorable, do not abide by the results; they are those who believe that they are always right and do not grant the adversary any virtue that allows him to be worthy of respect, just as they deny the pact because the adversary "is always suspected of treason".

That is why he considers that "the democratic right and the democratic left, social democracy" must understand each other because only in this way can there be "a course for the country, for society" and not "the sharp turns" proposed and advocated by populism, which are what they only know how to live if there is political instability, and for this, he says, they resort to "the political lexicon with high-sounding and empty words" and that they need "continuous agitation" as "narcotic so that they forget their mismanagement".

Those populist political actors "always challenge the system", even if it has provided the most prosperous decades of a country, because that way "the inability of populism to manage public services" will not be seen so much. For this reason, he stressed, "where populism does not lead to dictatorship, it has short cycles, due to its inability to manage."

"Those of us who are not populists need stability to solve people's problems through dialogue," said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who stressed that those who advocate political instability "what they generate are trenches", those who feel comfortable in the Polarization.

For this reason, those who advocate stability know that the only way out is the union between the citizens, the territories and the democrats. And taking advantage of the fact that he was in Chile, whose president, from the left, Feijóo is part of that populism that is advancing in Latin America, although he did not mention him, the popular leader highlighted the defeat that the new president's draft Constitution has suffered, because in his opinion he settled "in confrontation". Feijóo made it clear that "the PP defends stability because it corresponds to maturity and is the best response to the challenges of the time".