The word condemnation finally came out of the mouth of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, although not in the terms that the PSOE would like, because although he condemned the violent attitudes in the demonstrations of recent days to protest against the amnesty, He also stressed that the PSOE wants to amnesty acts such as those it wants to condemn outright.
The president of the PP, that is why he did not make a simple condemnation and that's it, because he considers that the PP has condemned these acts from the beginning: "Although professionals of manipulation and lies say that I am not clear, violence has no place in democracy and must always be rejected, whether by ultras of the extreme left or extreme right," said Feijóo, during his speech at a conference against the amnesty that the PP celebrates in Congress.
"Violence has no place in democracy, and neither does impunity," he stressed, and for that reason, "those of us who defend equality are not going to accept lessons from those who called demonstrations, chartered buses to protest the electoral results, and made escraches to PP members and their Government, or by those who surrounded Congress when it was meeting, and we are not going to accept a single lesson from those who are working so that violent acts go unpunished." Feijóo said he shared "the criticism of the violent acts carried out by ultras" but made it clear that those who criticize these events are "the same ones who are giving impunity to the acts that interest them."
The popular leader used words from PSOE leaders, to share them, those that "he who does not condemn violence, encourages it", and all to say that "the PSOE does not condemn violence, because it intends to amnesty it", and when " "If you try to amnesty violence, you cannot give any lesson to those who condemn violence." And for Feijóo, on one side there are "those who commit violent acts and amnesty them, and on the other those who condemn both, because they are violent and undemocratic acts. We condemn both."
The popular position, until reaching this morning's condemnation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has been hesitant, although always distancing itself from the demonstrations in front of Ferraz Street. The unchecking was initiated, in a lukewarm manner, by the president of the PP, but without condemning the events, as the PSOE demanded from the first moment. Already on Tuesday, the PP made this distinction clear, despite the fact that members of the PP had participated in some of the demonstrations, but the condemnation did not come until last night, when the demonstrations reached an unjustifiable violent turn.
Although Feijóo made a lukewarm condemnation, an hour later, when the riots were already noticeable, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, made the explicit condemnation that the socialists demanded of them: "Nothing justifies the violence that has been experienced today, on the part of of a minority. My resounding condemnation". The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, spoke in similar terms this morning, and on RNE he condemned "without any lukewarmness, all types of violence, especially in demonstrations that the PP neither calls for nor participates in."
In his speech against the amnesty at the PP conference, Feijóo stressed that this measure of grace "is nothing more than a payment to a politician, who after losing the elections wants to be president", but in his opinion "it is not going to assume no peace, because there is no conflict," he said. Quite the contrary, Feijóo thinks, "the role of the independentists who had lost many votes will be reinforced", as seen in the general elections, where they came in fourth and fifth place.
The president of the PP also considers that the amnesty "will mean that the State of Autonomies is weakened," because in his opinion "the privileges of autonomy do not strengthen." Furthermore, the amnesty, for Feijóo, "turns the Supreme Court into a repressor and puts the rule of law in check." For all these reasons, he considers that the amnesty is "an aberration from a political point of view; indecent, from an oral point of view, and illegal, from a legal point of view."
An amnesty, in addition, Feijóo stressed, is done "without social or political consensus, and without repentance." Therefore, the conclusion of the president of the PP is that "it is not done for reconciliation," and what the popular leader, who is "the first stone of a journey towards a self-determination referendum that the PSOE denies", but that given the antecedents he would not be surprised if he ended up giving in as well, because everything is born "from a personal interest."
For Feijóo, the amnesty "will cause tension in Catalonia", especially among "those who believe in the State", because it is benefiting those who "violate that rule of law", and because what the independentists intend with these actions is to "empty Catalonia". of Spain", and in exchange what the other party asks is "to be president".
The president of the PP also stressed that the amnesty is an attack on the rule of law and democracy, "because without the rule of law there is no democracy." Feijóo used words from the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska; from the former first vice president of the Government Carmen Calvo, and from the former Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, to say that the amnesty "is not recognized in the legal system, does not fit in the Constitution, and is unconstitutional."
But the popular leader also focused on the economic consequences of the amnesty, since in his opinion it will mean "expelling investors and hindering competitiveness", in addition to causing "enormous reputational damage", because it will be a law "tailored to some political documents, which are written by the lawyers of those persecuted by Justice".
