The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, has starred this morning at the Palace hotel in Barcelona in an informative breakfast of the Tribuna Europa cycle of the New Economy Forum, in which, before a notable representation of the Catalan business community, he has defended that the solidity of the framework institutional is essential for the smooth running of the economy.
In this sense, he regretted that the Socialist Party and the Prime Minister contribute, from his point of view, to the "strategy of erosion" of the institutions that the nationalists and populists, referring to Podemos, have put in place, in Fernández's opinion, with the "interested support" of Pedro Sánchez in order to stay "one more day" in Moncloa. "He flirts with that strategy in a clear way," Fernández has denounced, who has referred to the situation of the Crown and the dismissal of the director of the CNI as proof of his analysis.
"What is at stake is the future of constitutional Spain", exclaimed the president of the Catalan PP, who has claimed the task of his party as an "autonomist, pro-European and clearly constitutionalist" formation and has congratulated himself on the "encouraging data " of the latest polls, which indicate a "recovery of confidence" of the voters in the PP after the "existential" crisis of February, when the party, as Fernández has described, "went into a tailspin" and Alberto Núñez Feijóo succeeded in the presidency to Pablo Casado.
At this time, the alternative to the Government of Pedro Sánchez "is very clear", has defended the leader of the Catalan PP, who has given as an example the "successful model" in the economic management of the PP in the past, with the presidencies of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, but also in the present, with the Community of Madrid and Andalusia as a counterpoint to a Catalonia that "has lost leadership" and whose "decline is a reality".
"Companies are leaving. Health waiting lists are lengthening. There is less foreign investment. There are students in barracks," argued Fernández, for whom this negative dynamic began in 2012, when the former Convergence "allied" with the CUP. "Independence does not come but the CUP stays. We have a national-populist government with an anti-system touch," Fernández described, alluding to "tourism phobia", "attacks on private property and educational freedom", to the "allergy to major events" and "confiscatory taxation" to argue their approaches.
The speaker has been presented by the Deputy Secretary General of the PP Esteban González Pons, who has highlighted "the creativity and daring" of Alejandro Fernández, whom he has recalled that "breaks the canons" of traditional politics since his time as councilor in Tarragona . "I don't know if he is the best or the second best, but he is one of the best three parliamentarians in Spain," González Pons stressed to praise the popular deputy's speeches in Parliament.
Fernández has vindicated the work of the Catalan PP for having chosen the "complicated path", that of "Spain and freedom", as he has defined it, instead of the "easier" one of "becoming independent" and going with the flow in recent majority years in Catalonia. "The PP is not a processist party because it does not live off the conflict nor does it feed it back," he stressed. "We are a party with a vocation for government that suffers from polarization," he stated.
The arrival of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the national presidency of the PP has returned the economic folder to the forefront of the PP's political agenda, which wants to take advantage of the crisis arising from the pandemic and the current war in Ukraine to underline its profile as a manager in the difficult moments and pave the way for the new popular leader towards Moncloa. "I am convinced that Feijóo will be the next president of the Government of Spain", concluded Alejandro Fernández.
