The PP promised on Friday that sedition will be a crime when Feijóo governs, but the PP president does not intend to wait until then. He is not going to be quiet and he wants the socialists from all corners of Spain to take pictures. "They will have to vote," said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a speech before the executive committee of the PP, where he announced that he will present a proposal "so that sedition remains a crime, and so that the calling of an illegal referendum is classified as a crime. ".
Feijóo insisted on the "irresponsibility" that Pedro Sánchez is committing with the repeal of the crime of sedition and changing it to a crime of aggravated public disorder, with a substantial reduction in penalties. An initiative, Feijóo assured, that is not shared by the majority of citizens or many socialist leaders, starting with the barons, with whom, Feijóo stressed, he maintains a strong relationship, from his time as president of Galicia. "In recent days they have expressed their discomfort, their stupefaction and their frustration", due to Sánchez's decision to accept the thesis of the independentistas, he has explained.
To all of them, the president of PP tells them that it is not enough that they tell him and that "it is an urgent need" that they take a step forward. He challenges them to "stop this drift by Sánchez", because at the moment, he stressed, "there are no half measures, we must establish a position and the socialists of all those territories will have to vote", because this "is not a matter of Ferraz , since it has consequences for the entire country" and only serves "the particular interests of one person, Pedro Sánchez".
In the speech of the president of the PP before the national executive committee, Feijóo lamented that the president of the Government "has broken the unity that there has been between the PSOE and the PP when it comes to protecting the unity of Spain in the face of independence threats", and has reproached Sánchez for taking measures such as pardons, or now, the abolition of sedition or the reform of "embezzlement, with which he now threatens", without the independentistas having promised not to repeat what they did in their day.
That is why the PP is not going to remain silent on this matter, and will continue to denounce what Sánchez is doing. "They are not going to silence me," he has said. "There are many things that are negotiable, but not the equality of Spaniards" and that "the seditious repeal their own crime" and make "a Penal Code to their measure and with the complicity of the president", the popular president has warned. They will not consent, because, as he has argued, "the democratic State is being unprotected", with those who "brag" about how easy it is to achieve their goals.
Feijóo has sounded the alarm about the consequences of the repeal of the crime of sedition, to the point that he has warned that "the path of the European Court is being paved for independentists", and what is more, serious "is could condemn the nation instead of the independentistas". In addition, -for the leader of the PP-, if the independentists "declared independence again, that declaration of independence would go unpunished."
Feijóo, in addition, wanted to dismantle the arguments that Sánchez has given to present the repeal of sedition, such as that there is a majority in the Chamber or that it facilitates coexistence in Catalonia. And he did so by remembering what the current President of the Government said when he was not in Government: that he would abolish political pardons, "and he has granted them", that sedition is a crime from 200 years ago, and the PP approved the wording that Now it repeals in 1995, that this crime punishes these acts in Europe with fewer years, when, Feijóo stressed, "there are countries that punish it with even life imprisonment." And this is not done for the benefit of Catalonia, he affirmed, "but it is done only for the benefit of the independentistas and for the survival of Sánchez."
That is why Feijóo made it clear to Sánchez that this could mean the end of any dialogue with the PP: "If to keep the dialogue with the ERC alive he has to repeal the sedition, to keep the dialogue with us alive he has to do the opposite."
Feijóo will continue to denounce what Sánchez is doing, "with determination", but also "with serenity, no matter how much they provoke us, with moderation and with centrality", because "Spain needs us" and he, he assured, is "even more determined than the first day".
