It still hurts Alberto Núñez Feijóo that Pedro Sánchez has not congratulated him for having won the July 23 elections, regardless of the fact that he could not form a government, but that has not prevented the leader of the PP from going to the seat of the president of the Government, as soon as the result of the vote was communicated, and extended his hand in congratulations. But the words were warning: "It's a big mistake," they were, to which he added, in statements to journalists that "he is responsible for what he just did."
From this moment on, Alberto Núñez Feijóo puts himself in "opposition leader" mode and if Sánchez will prepare his new government in the coming days, the president of the PP will prepare, as yet undated, changes in the leadership of the PP, which the members of the current management do not know until when they will be done.
The president of the PP stressed, already with the confirmation that he will be in the opposition, that "We are going to continue working for our country," he said, because "we are worried about the situation" in which the Government will have to exercise the presidency of the Government. , "subject to a monthly contract that the independence movement must sign."
As an example of this conditioning by the Government, Feijóo highlighted the debate that will be held next Wednesday in the European Parliament. "I honestly believe that the fact that next Wednesday, in the European Parliament, there will be a debate on the basis of this investiture, which is an amnesty law for independence, is the worst way to start a legislature."
Feijóo considers that Europe's questioning of the amnesty law is bad "for our international reputation and without a doubt affects our democracy. That in the European Parliament, next week, there will be a debate on whether Spain is guaranteed Rule of Law or not, we have never had to experience it in our democracy."
For this reason, and as he already said on Wednesday, after listening to Pedro Sánchez's investiture speech, "I am leaving more worried than when I entered and I have also seen that the PSOE is clearly in the hands of those who want, first, recognition of the nation." different from that of Spain, and second, a self-determination referendum".
And for Feijóo, the spokespersons for ERC and Junts made it clear in their interventions on Wednesday that if they do not do what they demand, which is what was agreed upon, "this legislature is in danger", something that is also bad for Spain, at its judgment, since "what Spain needs is stability, and not danger", as it is also due to the fact that "democratic alerts are on".
But the PP offers itself to the Spanish people as a guarantee that it will try to stop, with all the instruments at its disposal, issues that in its opinion do not respect the laws and the Constitution. "We are going to try to work for our country and restore the sanity that the personal ambition of the candidate now president has led to a dead end."
For the leader of the PP, the president of the Government "is intervened by the independence movement, he is going to be president of the government for as long as the independence movement wants, and unfortunately the decisions are not going to be made in this Chamber, but rather they are going to be outside this House and outside Spain".
Asked about what the PP offered the PNV in their conversations, to which the Basque nationalist spokesperson, Aitor Esteban, alluded in his speech, when he said "if one day they told what they offered us", Feijóo responded that he had listened to the Peneuvista spokesperson and "I really liked the quote about the tractor, the truth is that I have to admit it, and I think that Mr. Aitor Esteban has old tractors, because new tractors do not seize when there is a lack of oil, new tractors when there is simply a lack of oil "The engine stops. I get the feeling that the PNV prefers to be a link, perhaps the last in an old tractor, but I offered the PNV a new tractor, the one that stops when it doesn't have oil."
More seriously, he came to deny Aitor Esteban's statement, which in circles close to the PNV translates into a Ministry of Industry, Feijóo stated: "You know perfectly well that we have not negotiated with the PNV, because he told us that as long as Vox was In a vote favorable to our legislature, there was no room for negotiation, and therefore I am very surprised that, having not negotiated, someone says that there has been negotiation, unless they have negotiated with others, but certainly not with me, with me the gentleman President of the PNV, Mr. Andoni Ortuzar, has not negotiated anything, nor have I with him, and I am a witness to their conversation."
When asked if Aitor Esteban had lied then, the president of the PP stressed: "I have not said that he is lying, for that it would have to be Pedro Sánchez," he stressed.
