Alberto Núñez Feijóo is willing to lower his tone, but not to give up moving forward with his convictions and even less to "defend the pillars of democracy." For this reason, the president of the PP told the national board of directors, the highest body of his party between congresses, "no matter how much they provoke me", no matter how much they coerce me "he will not give up on what he considers an obligation.
"He will defend the pillars of democracy in the Constitutional Court, we will once again denounce what is happening in Europe and we will go where necessary to defend the Constitution," said the popular leader, who, while maintaining his positions, seemed as if he at least wanted to lower the level of insults that politics has reached in recent days.
"I am not going to talk about coups d'état, because the democratic history of my country is very serious," but it was as hard or more so than up to now. "The president of the Government has lost all care to defend democracy," and he uses procedures that do not conform to the law and proposes measures "unconstitutional knowing that they are," he said.
Feijóo also accused Pedro Sánchez of "stigmatizing all those who do not think like him, be they judges, journalists, politicians, and all those who question him", and he does so, he stressed, "based on two falsehoods", which has no more alternative, and that has a social majority. And in his opinion both things are lies, because he has an alternative, he affirmed, since he himself offered to abandon the independence movement and the PP would support him, just as it offered him support if Podemos left the Government.
He rejected both things, Feijoo explained, to conclude that "since he has not wanted the PP to support him, then he will have the PP to defeat him", and there he adds the second of the "falsehoods", which Sánchez says he has a majority Social. "It is false," said Feijóo, "because none of the measures that he is adopting were in his program" and Sánchez did not even mention them in his investiture speech. To this is added the seriousness of having evaded the mandatory institutional reports, which makes these measures not legitimate.
Feijóo himself pointed out, in his speech before the national board of directors of the PP, that "Sánchez is legitimately president, but what he is doing is not, in addition to being neither ethical nor reasonable, because "it puts the pillars of the democracy", to the point of interfering in the highest constitutional body, in an irresponsible manner, in his opinion, because "it will have an enormous cost in terms of coexistence, wear and tear on the institutions and deterioration of Spain's international image".
Feijóo, who already stressed last week that he will accept what the Constitutional Court says, whatever it is, which, PP sources indicate, does not seem to happen in the Government, at least in part of it, in allusion of United We Can, described very crudely what Sánchez is doing, without getting involved, at any time, in what the Constitutional Court does or should do. For the PP leader, everything he has done in recent weeks "is an unprecedented nonsense" and a "political nightmare", which however is less serious, because "it will end when there are elections", he said.
And he has also reached an unbearable "level of insult", because he is already, he denounced, in the "coercion" phase, but he warned Sánchez, "if he thinks that because of that coercion we are going to give in, he is clear. Until we could get there." He stressed that "if someone believes that by comparing us with Tejero" the PP is going to loosen up, "he is wrong, because we faced the 1981 coup in the first place" and for that reason he is not going to accept lessons, he affirmed, "from those who want to hand over the Government to those who want to end Spain".
Feijóo also warned his people that the Government "wants to make us believe that we are alone", but it is not true, and alerted citizens that "with this escalation of measures and attacks on the PP, Sánchez wants to seek confrontation between Spaniards". but if that's what they want "they won't find me there". He will remain in moderation, where in his opinion not only the center right is already located, but also "many social democrats" disenchanted with Sánchez, and even voters of United We Can, who voted for that formation in good faith "and feel betrayed". . The leader of the PP goes further and also puts in that bag of those who reject Sánchez's proposals "part of the moderate nationalism that observes this path with concern."
Given this situation that the popular president describes in this way, for Feijóo what happens in the next elections is essential "and it is not about choosing between Genoa and Ferrar, or between right and left." This time, he said, "the choice is between this Government or Spain, and to us, he concluded, we care about Spain." Hence, he stressed, "no matter how much they provoke me, I am not going to move. If they want a radical president, they already have him."
With this phrase he was alluding not only to Sánchez, but also to Abascal, engaged in a motion of censure that the PP considers counterproductive. The popular leader insists that he is not going to "offer Spain more division, noise and chaos", what he offers is "management, respect and unity".
For this reason, he also believes that it is necessary for the PP to win in the next elections "with a resounding majority, to put an end to the worst page in history since we wrote the best", which he places in the approval of the Constitution and in the Transition. And the municipal and regional elections on May 28 will be the first step, Feijóo is convinced.
