The trans law and the Democratic Memory law have their days numbered if Alberto Núñez Feijóo arrives at Moncloa. The PP candidate said yesterday in an interview on Onda Cero his intention to repeal both regulations, understanding that they are "minority laws" that have been carried out this legislature to "maintain the government coalition." The popular leader thus outlined his intentions if he achieves the presidency, placing a critical accent on Pedro Sánchez's alliances. On the one hand, the law promoted by the ministry of Irene Montero. On the other, the legislation on Democratic Memory with the imprint, he said, of Bildu.
The trans law has generated a controversial debate during a good part of the legislature. Buried within the coalition and open within feminism, and for this reason the leader of the PP wants to take advantage of the division. “It is easier to change your legal sex than to get your driver's license. It is a law – he commented – that goes against minors, parental guardianship, feminist groups, doctors...”. Despite the criticism, the intention is to present a new trans law for a group that "has its rights and we are going to regulate them." It is understood that it would repeal the axis of the norm: the free self-determination of sex in the records.
In this outline of his government project, and when asked about the extensive Cabinet that Sánchez has today, Feijóo defended an Executive with fewer ministries and gave as an example the possibility of subsuming the Equality and Consumption portfolio within other departments. The disappearance of Equality with ministerial rank immediately generated criticism from the feminist movement, emphasizing the horrifying data on sexist violence and the importance, therefore, of maintaining the portfolio.
After putting these two rules on target, Feijóo approached the analysis of other laws of the Sánchez Executive more prudently. He explained that tweaks will be considered in the Education law, some adjustments in the Euthanasia law, but without repeals. And as for the labor reform, he indicated that it is maintained in a large part of the text promoted by Mariano Rajoy.
Regarding the reforms introduced in the Penal Code agreed with ERC and in reference to the process, the PP candidate indicated his intention to replace the "crime of sedition" and also indicated that he wants to "classify the illegal referendum." He also alluded to the need to modify the "pardons for corruption." It should be remembered that the former president of the Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán has requested pardon. And that in the sentence to the former president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs, the judges request a pardon.
Feijóo tried yesterday to avoid talking about Vox with an eye on a percentage of the socialist vote – he said that between 7% and 10% – that he considers could be close to his formation.
In this interview, the leader of the PP downplayed the fact that Isabel Díaz Ayuso said that Sánchez arrived and will leave with a "pucherazo". “These are formulas that politicians normally use copied from many journalists,” he said.
Pedro Sánchez, in any case, spent the entire electoral campaign of 28-M warning throughout Spain that the only political project of Alberto Núñez Feijóo is to "repeal and dismantle" all the reforms and social advances of this legislature, to "go back to a painful past.
A message of warning to the citizenry, and to mobilize the progressive electorate, which had little success, in light of the electoral triumph of the PP in said appointment with the polls. But with the general elections on 23-J already called, the Prime Minister raised the level of alarm and warned last Monday that modifying his economic reforms or work would cause "extraordinarily serious damage" to economic growth and job creation. current in Spain.
And once Feijóo yesterday expressed his determination to reverse "enough" laws of this legislature and reduce ministries, the Government assured that their worst fears were confirmed. The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, responsible for the regulations on Democratic Memory, was exhaustive: "It is already quite evident that Feijóo's political project is to repeal, it is destructive, it is to make our country go backwards, repealing advances that we have approved during this legislature." "What are those setbacks with which you want to punish the Spanish?" He required.
"What can bother a Democrat from the Memory Law?" Bolaños replied. "Can it bother a democrat that a coup d'état and a dictatorship are declared illegal, that families can recover the remains of their loved ones, that the victims of all sides of that war are honored?" He raised.
Regarding the elimination of the Ministry of Equality proposed by Feijóo, the government spokesperson, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez, warned that Spain is at the forefront of equality policies and advances for women. "And whoever does not defend that cause, will answer for it before the citizens," she said.
"The PP is beginning to show its cards," warned the Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta. Given the merger of Culture with Education and Universities that Feijóo is considering, Iceta was convinced that "the ballot boxes will demand more culture, not less." "It is about moving forward, not going back," defended the minister.
