Don't mess with politics, pick up your office, and leave. It was the response of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who accused the PP, in the control session of Congress, of promoting "the culture of rape".
Feijóo assured that he understood that the Minister for Equality "is going through his worst moments" and that "the majority of the Chamber, including the Government, when they see the Minister for Equality sitting as a Minister of the Government of Spain, it is an undesirable situation ". She also understands the difficulties of the minister and her situation "for which she feels responsible, because she and the entire government are, for the fact that there are women today who are unprotected or more unprotected, and that there are sentences that reduce sentences or imprison aggressors and sex offenders.
What he should not do, in the opinion of the popular leader, is to blame the PP, because "the responsibility for that lies with the Sánchez Government in its entirety, the Socialist Party and Mrs. Montero", so he asked him to " Don't get nervous, assume your responsibility and stop muddling Spanish politics".
For Feijóo, "what the Government of Spain is doing is very serious and it is very serious that the Government of Spain is the first holligan of State policy." For this reason, despite understanding that the minister "is experiencing a very desperate moment", he reminds her that there is already a Supreme Court ruling that proves that the law of only yes is yes "favors sentences for sex offenders". For this reason, the leader of the PP considers "nonsense that the Government continues without modifying the law, without rectifying the law and that this minister gives lessons to others", when what she should do, she said, is "simply collect her office ".
Attitudes such as those of Minister Montero are those that Alberto Núñez Feijóo rejects in his conception of politics and that he described today when he received the award for best politician from the magazine Cambio 16. The PP leader considers that a good politician must have five qualities: Humility, calm, management, institutional respect and sincerity, and the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, lacks all five in the opinion of the leader of the PP.
The popular leader affirmed, after being awarded, that he has a conception of politics that is based only on trying to improve life in his country, which is why he assumed the presidency of his party, and that, according to his opinion, it can only be achieved by applying those five qualities.
For Feijóo, a politician needs to have "more humility and know that one is not always in possession of the truth, and that when many say that you are wrong, it is likely that you are wrong." What has to be done then, and this is his advice to Pedro Sánchez, is to "listen, learn and rectify mistakes", because, he said, when "irreversible evils are caused because a law is in force that goes against the protection of women" must be rectified. "No politician is more important than the institutions he represents."
Alberto Núñez Feijóo warned that the next step to this lack of humility is "the vanity of believing that one is capable of transcending the situation." In his opinion, "when a president believes that there are reasons why he will go down in history, it is because he sees himself as a former president." He was referring to the statement made by the Prime Minister on Monday that he will go down in history for having exhumed the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen.
The president of the PP believes that in politics "more calm" is needed and "the constant pointing out of the dissenting party" contributes to that calm "in no way", as in his opinion the Government of Pedro Sánchez does. In this sense, he made reference to the words of the Minister of Equality Irene Montero who described the judges as "the fachas with toga". Feijóo assured that the current government is the "most divided in history".
On the "trafficking" law, approved this week in the Council of Ministers, the president of the PP also considers that it will not solve the underlying problem and accused the Government of designing a "Criminal Code to the letter of the politicians who committed crimes". For the opposition leader it is a very worrying sign of the democratic quality of a country.
Núñez Feijóo also called for "promoting institutional respect", which in his opinion is compromised "when the Government's action questions the institutions" and "the interests of minorities prevail over those of the majorities", is that the democratic regime begins to have very serious problems of survival".
The last quality that in Feijóo's opinion a politician should have is sincerity, which he considers that Pedro Sánchez does not exercise either, which consists of "telling the truth, especially when it is hard", and above all "not lying". The president of the PP refers both to economic issues "with 25 independent organizations", national and international, that oppose the Government on the economic situation, or the data that is becoming known about what happened in June at the fence of Melilla.
Feijóo promises to "tell the truth, whatever it costs me", also to recover the dialogue, the agreement, "make management the priority" and ensure that politics is "where the majority of Spaniards are", taking as the only objective "to improve my country", because if this is not the case, the years that have been in politics will not be worth it, "and the president will go down in history, and he will not be cruel to him, he will simply recount the years that he have lost for harmony, dialogue, agreement and growth that is essential for the welfare state".
