The PP has responded forcefully to the endorsement of the socialist militancy for Pedro Sánchez and to the progress of the negotiations for the investiture. The president of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, has called on critics of the acting president of the Government and leader of the PSOE - without citing anyone - to "demonstrate with facts" his disagreement with the direction of the party. “If they only talk and do not demonstrate it with facts, that makes them equal to Sánchez,” he said in Valencia.
In a very crowded event - 20,000 people, according to PP sources, 10,000 according to the Government delegation - and with very harsh messages from the attendees, the PP leader indicated that his party is going to “be in the streets alongside of the majority.” However, Feijóo has made it clear that his training “will never move from respect for institutions.” "The PP convinces on the street and wins at the polls," he warned.
In this sense, the Galician leader has insisted that "the PP governs when it wins and that it accepts being in the opposition, even if we win." In fact, the leader of the PP has pointed out that he will take advantage of his power in city councils, autonomies and in the Senate "to defend Spain." "We are not going to give them one," he warned before a dedicated audience that he took advantage of the pauses to shout "Puigdemont to prison" or chant "I am Spanish, Spanish, Spanish."
Feijóo has pointed out that Sánchez will have to respond not only to the PP, "also to the polls" and has predicted that the PP "will once again recompose the history of Spain." "Pedro Sánchez's parenthesis will be closed by the Spanish people," he predicted.
In the central square of Els Furs (the Valencian laws that Felipe V abolished after the battle of Almansa), thousands of people have gathered among Spanish flags - also, but less, of the PP -; improvised banners against Pedro Sánchez ("Pedro traitor" and "You will not destroy Spain"); and shouts that sent the acting president of the Government to prison and that prayed that "Spain is not for sale."
The music and the success of the call gave a festive atmosphere to the event that contradicted the harshness of the slogans launched and the context of growing political tension in the streets. On Friday, at the headquarters of the Valencian socialists, the former president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the former Valencian president, Ximo Puig, were rebuked when they were heading to an event to support Sánchez's investiture.
Before Feijóo, the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, spoke, accusing the socialists of kneeling and swallowing before the independence movement. Catalá shouted very loudly "not in my name" to the joy of the square. For his part, the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, has spoken of "humiliation" and the "greatest attack on the rule of law and Spain" that no one ever imagined and has indicated that the citizens will not tolerate it. In this very complicated context, the leader of the Valencian PP has asked for support for Alberto Nuñez Feijóo.
