The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is not going to tremble when it comes to voting against the Government's decree laws "to alleviate an economic crisis that he says does not exist", because Pedro Sánchez does not have the necessary votes guaranteed to move them forward, due to the announced vote against Junts. The popular leader reiterates the conditions that he already stated on December 22, when the content of the decrees was known, to change the meaning of his vote.
The conditions that the PP sets to support these decrees is the reduction of personal income tax by the amount by which the CPI has increased, that is, the deflation of the rate, to guarantee the purchasing power of medium and low incomes, of up to 40,000 euros. income, as the PP has done in the autonomous communities in which it governs. The second condition is the reduction of VAT on meat, fish and preserves, and maintaining the VAT on gas and electricity at the 5 percent that it was until December, and not the 10 to which it rose on January 1, still far from the 21 percent that was before.
Borja Sémper, in a press conference after the meeting of the PP steering committee, stressed that if these three conditions were met, which he called considerations, the PP would be willing to consider abstention. The PP spokesperson acknowledged that there have been "contacts" with the Government, regarding the three decrees, "but there has been no offer from the Government and there has been no satisfactory response to any" of the PP's requests.
So the president of the PP warns the Government: “We are not going to fix the internal problems that the Government has, which is nonsense.” What the PP is going to do, Feijóo said, is “put solutions on the table throughout the legislature.” The PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, after the PP leadership meeting insisted on the same line: "The PP is not going to come to Sánchez's rescue." The PP "is not going to become a crutch for a president who has already chosen his partners," or "we are not going to help Sánchez when the investiture coalition was created to build a wall with the PP. The PP has already warned ".
For the PP, what will be demonstrated if it is confirmed that one of the Government's partners, Junts, does not support the decree laws, are "the problems of survival of the Government since the beginning of the legislature", and that they will be constant, because there are three options, "either Junts swallows, or Sánchez gives in, or the Government loses the vote and confirms its extraordinary weakness."
Alberto Núñez Feijóo made this warning to the Government during the presentation in Madrid of the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, at a breakfast organized by Europa Press, in what represents the beginning of the PP's electoral pre-campaign for the elections of 18 February, and will have its first big event next weekend, with a meeting with all the regional presidents, who will support Rueda.
In that act, Feijóo drew the lines along which the PP is supposed to intend the campaign to run, and which is based on the contrast of what the central Government represents, and what the Xunta wants to play.
“In the face of stridency, confidence and normality,” Feijóo said. “In the face of attacks on the state, in the face of pardons, in the face of the amnesty, in the face of the permanent scandal,” he stressed, the PP offers “kindergarten schools, lower taxes, support for the self-employed, less debt.” In the face of “the lie,” Feijóo stressed, “fulfillment of the given word” and “in the face of excessive egos, honesty, humility and effort.” Of course, the president of the PP warns the Galicians that the alternative to the PP Government, of the Alfonso Rueda government, that "the multiparty government of Spain, which does not have a common purpose for all of Spain", is what Pedro Sánchez aims for the Xunta, making “Galicia a franchise of the Government of Spain”, because for the President of the Government, he said, “Galicia is just another institution to colonize”, and for the independentists, “a space to spread their ideology” , or as Alfonso Rueda said, he is not going to accept that Galicia is "an independence branch."
The president of the Xunta and candidate of the PP, Alfonso Rueda, also began his campaign along the same lines as that drawn by Feijóo, with criticism of the first vice president and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, for “the lies” she has told. to Galicia, as if there would be no debt forgiveness to Catalonia, although he did not mention this community, not even when he assured that Galicia is not going to accept “that decisions that affect it are made in other territories.”
Rueda's intention, he said, is to "preserve Galicia from the hubbub" that exists in the central government, and for it to continue being "the island of stability" that it is now, in an expression that is reminiscent of the old "Catalan oasis" of which He spoke throughout Spain. To this end, the PP candidate boasts of being the second autonomous community with the least deficit, a community where taxes have been lowered, and a community “away from the turbulence” that threatens others.
A campaign, then, that speaks more about the problems of citizens than about the issues that focus the Spanish political debate, such as amnesty or the right to self-determination, although Alfonso Rueda stressed that although he intends to talk about “what interests Galicia” , the “national scenario conditions us,” and with the warning that Galicia “will lose a lot if the instability that a government like Spain's would represent were installed in Galicia.”
Borja Sémper also referred, in the press conference after the meeting of the Steering Committee, to the amnesty law, whose entire amendments will be debated on Wednesday in Congress, which he said, "that his partners are going through box", and a law, he said, that the PP will repeal when it has the opportunity to do so.
