Feijóo sees Sánchez "bronco, nervous" and with authoritarian tics

The face to face that Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo held on Tuesday in the Senate continues in the media through the media, with a display of socialist and PP leaders, who continue the debate, more about solvency from the President of the Government than from the leader of the opposition, than about the energy crisis.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
07 September 2022 Wednesday 04:30
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Feijóo sees Sánchez "bronco, nervous" and with authoritarian tics

The face to face that Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo held on Tuesday in the Senate continues in the media through the media, with a display of socialist and PP leaders, who continue the debate, more about solvency from the President of the Government than from the leader of the opposition, than about the energy crisis.

Among those who followed in the debate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who assures that he saw Pedro Sánchez more as head of the opposition than as president of the Government, because of the insults and insults he dedicated to him, especially talking about his solvency as a manager at the head of the Galician Government. But he also saw him as a "quite angry and nervous" opposition leader, in the "biggest attack on the leader of the opposition" that he has seen in a parliamentary debate.

For this reason, his conclusion is that if the debate were to take place again, Pedro Sánchez would change the tone of his speech "if he is capable of changing the tone." He leaves the debate satisfied, although he believes that "an opportunity to talk about energy and the situation of workers in the industrial sector" has been lost, although he tried.

In an interview on the Antena 3 program Espejo Público, Feijóo refuted the accusations made by Sánchez about his management in Galicia, which he was unable to tell Sánchez in the debate, due to lack of time. Regarding Galicia's debt while he was president of the Xunta, he assured that he left as the president who had the least debt to an autonomous community; On the payment of taxes in the rural world, Feijóo assured that there are 170,000 Galicians who have not had to pay transfer tax on agricultural or livestock farms; and to the accusation of having removed aid for textbooks, the leader of the PP assured that currently 80% of Galician children have free textbooks. "He knows as much about Galicia as he does about energy, that is, nothing about Galicia and very little about energy."

But Feijóo is not going to remain silent and to each attempt to discredit him as a manager, the president of the PP will answer with the same coin. "I don't know what Sánchez was doing when I managed Insalud and Correos in Madrid, but when he became president of the Government, he only had, as experience, having been an opposition councilor in the Madrid City Council, mine will be having been president of the Xunta de Galicia for 13 years". That the solvencies of management be compared, says Feijóo, who considers that Sánchez's attacks "are a self-disqualification of the person who pronounces them", and shows that Sánchez "is very nervous about the polls."

The president of the PP saw Pedro Sánchez, in the Senate debate, "leaning to the left, dedicated to making a broad front to the left and has left the social democracy an orphan", and that he believes will be the end of the president of the government , whom he does not forgive for "insulting the militants of the PP, who have elected their president", saying that he has been appointed by the large energy companies, which he believes that "said by Pablo Iglesias, it would still make sense", but now he sees the one who was the leader of Podemos "more judicious than the president of the government", determined to "occupy the electoral space of Podemos."

For Feijóo, that insult to the militants of the PP is a "very worrying authoritarian tic" of the president of the government, and it is not the only one. He also considers that the fact that the government "calls for mobilization against businessmen is an authoritarian tic."

The president of the PP, in the interview, continued to reel off measures of the energy saving plan that he will send this week to Pedro Sánchez, which starts from the basis that energy is technology, and not "ideology, as is happening now." That is why the first of his protests is that an independent authority analyze where the energy bet should go, and more so at this time. That is why he also asks not to make new nuclear power plants, as Sánchez interpreted in the Senate, but to extend the life of existing ones, which need three years to know, because it continues to represent 20% of the energy consumed in Spain, and without renewables fully deployed due to bureaucratic problems, and having given up thermal energy, it is necessary.

As for the saving itself, it proposes discounts on gas consumption, so that consumers and companies save, or reduce their consumption from 5 to 20%. get a discount of between 7 and 40% on your bill. A measure that is justified, said Feijóo, in that "if you want to lower inflation, you have to finance savings."