Harsh speech by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, against the government of Pedro Sánchez, before the European leaders of the European People's Party (EPP), including the president of the Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola , but he distanced himself from what the previous leader of the Spanish PP, Pablo Casado, used to do, clearly differentiating the Government of Spain.
"I want to ask for the trust that Spain deserves, because it is much higher than the trust that the Spanish government deserves," said Núñez Feijóo in his debut as leader of one of the main European liberal and conservative parties, at the EPP congress.
Feijóo sent three messages to the prime ministers and leaders of the European center-right parties, from the German, now in opposition after Merkel's departure, to those of Greece, Croatia or Romania, in power. A message of stability, another of hope and another of the future.
A message of stability, he said, because "the PP symbolizes the stability of constitutional Spain that the current government is not capable of guaranteeing." A message of hope, because the PP "represents the hope of all Spaniards who do not want a country without direction, and that is why the PP is the future," she stressed;
As he has been making clear in the two days that the EPP congress has been going on, Nuñez Feijóo alluded to the many questions that the European leaders have asked him about the situation in Spain and in the Government, and about matters that concern them, both in the social sphere, such as economic, institutional and territorial.
He claimed to understand "his misgivings about the opacity and low execution of European funds", his "unrest about the internal division and external weakness" of the Government of Pedro Sánchez, at the same time that he assured that he shared "his uneasiness about the position of part of the Spanish Government on NATO and the consequent mistrust of international partners", in addition to knowing "their surprise at Spain's high indebtedness, their concern at the skyrocketing inflation, and the urgency to learn about reforms such as pensions".
Against this background, he sent another message, this time of calm, and asked for trust, "which Spain deserves, because it is much better than the Spanish Government deserves it". And that is where the PP comes into play, which he presented as a guarantee that all those problems that concern them can be resolved. "The PP is not a eurosceptic opposition, nor will it have part of a government that doubts Spain's permanence in NATO", but the PP "is the party that introduced the euro in Spain", he stressed, and it is the one who "guarantees compliance with the rules of the euro", he stated, referring to the need to reduce the debt and the deficit, which was welcomed with applause by the rest of the European leaders.
Núñez Feijóo presented a PP comparable to the rest of the European center-right parties: "We have ideas, not dogmas; we want to unite, not disunite; we understand politics as a permanent exercise of responsibility, and not frivolity; and we are a party with the open doors, without exclusions, where there is room for all those who have said enough is enough, it is necessary to change".
That is, stressed the president of the PP, what makes the PP strong: "We are strong because we have collected the tiredness of the Spain of moderation." A strength, he said, that is also based on belonging to the popular European family, which has given such good governments to its countries, which has "shaped Europe", and which is a clear defender of liberal democracy "which has been shown to It is politically, economically, socially, and morally superior to any other system.
