Catalonia is worse now than in 2018, when Pedro Sánchez assumed the presidency of the Government. The statement is from the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who thus summarizes what he thinks that the Government is not only going to abolish the crime of sedition, but has announced, "coinciding with the day of the Constitution", he laments the popular leader, who is willing to modify the crime of embezzlement, so that the independentistas convicted by the process go unpunished.
Núñez Feijóo supports this statement, as he said in an interview on Onda Cero, that in 2018 "in Catalonia it was known that the law was being complied with", and that if not, there were consequences, as happened with the process, when a PP government he had to apply article 155, and then the authors of the declaration of independence and 1-O were tried and convicted.
"Now -said the leader of the PP-, what they know in Catalonia is that the Penal Code is drawn up by the independentistas to eliminate the crimes for which they were convicted and to leave the State unprotected." Now, Feijóo emphasizes, "in Catalonia it is already known that the laws are not complied with, because others are negotiated with retroactive effects."
For Feijóo that is the main problem that Spain has, that of "territorial organization", together with the economic problem. He is concerned about both, but more than the fact that the President of the Government uses the budgets to pay the independentistas, he said, which has made them "the most expensive budgets in the democratic history of Spain", because "budgets have been negotiated due to lack of protection of the state", since there have been agreements on "budgets for prisoners", for Bildu to support them, and "budgets for immunity to those convicted of the process".
And Feijóo does not "buy" that the crime of sedition is repealed to equate the legislation to that of Europe. "It's a big lie," he said, because all states protect themselves from what the crimes of sedition or rebellion represent, regardless of the name they have, whether it is preventing pro-independence parties, he said, from being legal and being able to stand in the elections, or through crimes, under different names, to protect the state.
Because what happened in Catalonia in 2017, the president of the PP stressed, "are not public disorders", that is "those that occur at the exit of the Bernabeu", he gave as an example, but not when what is wanted is to end the Spanish nation. And to give more weight to his argument, he relied on the words of Felipe González in an interview on Antena 3 a few days ago. "He says that this is not a public disorder" and that if he wants to repeal it, he must look for another type of crime "for when you want to illegally declare independence from a territory."
For Feijóo, what they want to do now with the crime of embezzlement, so that it does not affect those who embezzle public money but without personal gain, is "another fallacy", when it is said that it is to equate it to Europe, because "the Corruption has different modalities regardless of the purpose, but it is corruption", whether it is to finance a party, he said, when there is no personal gain; to launch a clientelistic practice to stay in power, which does not imply personal gain either, or when it is misappropriated "to commit a crime of sedition. Everything is corruption", and for this reason he assures that "Sánchez is deceiving the entire nation the day".
For this reason, for making these statements, Feijóo returns to Sánchez the words that the President of the Government dedicated to him on the day of the Constitution that the Constitution must be complied with, all of it, and that not one lesson in constitutionality. In this sense, the president of the PP assured that he is willing to negotiate with the government, including the judiciary, but the problem is that "it is difficult to talk to a government that does not take anything seriously."
In the first place, he stresses that if an agreement is not reached, the responsibility is always on the two parties that are negotiating, but if he uses the Judiciary "to place his ministers trying to unprotect the Judiciary" then it is necessary to see who has more responsibility , if who says no to passing over the Judiciary with pardons and retroactive changes in laws, to modify their sentences, or who calls for the independence of Justice and its depoliticization. That's why he laments: "We don't have a Socialist Party with which to talk, the one that has been so useful to Spain."
This leads him to the conviction, as he already said on Tuesday, that when there are elections "Spain is going to make a very pragmatic vote and millions of Socialists, if they are interested in the return of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, they only have two possibilities, or vote for the PP or stay home." What is clear to him is that "there will be a vote to punish Sánchez's project, which has demolished the PSOE and which has been done by people who have done as much as President Leguina or Nicolás Redondo Terreros, who have done more important things than Sánchez".
Regarding the situation that Cs is experiencing, the PP president stresses that whoever votes for Cs's ideological project "has a place in the PP, which has broadened its base." For Feijóo, Ciudadanos is a party "that must say goodbye to the political sphere in the most dignified way", and the PP is not going to get involved, it will be attentive. Of course, he assured that he has no problem "to talk to talented people and see if it is possible to coincide", alluding to people like Begoña Villacís.
