González Pons: "Finally there is someone in Spain who defends the interests of rapists and corrupt people"

The PP insists on the idea of ​​the government's lack of "democratic legitimacy" to the extent that, in the words of its institutional deputy secretary, Esteban González Pons, it is developing a program "that is the opposite of what it promised in the campaign" in allusion to the repeal of the crime of sedition and the reduction of penalties for embezzlement that are processed in Congress, after yesterday the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, called for early elections.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
12 December 2022 Monday 01:31
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González Pons: "Finally there is someone in Spain who defends the interests of rapists and corrupt people"

The PP insists on the idea of ​​the government's lack of "democratic legitimacy" to the extent that, in the words of its institutional deputy secretary, Esteban González Pons, it is developing a program "that is the opposite of what it promised in the campaign" in allusion to the repeal of the crime of sedition and the reduction of penalties for embezzlement that are processed in Congress, after yesterday the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, called for early elections.

In an interview on TVE, González Pons raised his tone against Sánchez to the point of sarcastically assuring that "finally there is someone in Spain who defends the interests of the violators and the corrupt", in relation to these reforms, of which he has warned that the same thing will happen as with the law of only yes is yes, that is, "there will be convicts who will benefit."

The popular leader has accused Sánchez of "practicing the Penal Code of friends" and has considered it "impossible to explain" that sentences for corrupt people are reduced to improve the situation in Catalonia. Thus, he has rejected that these reforms are made in the interest of Catalonia or Spain, if not for the sole interest of Pedro Sánchez to continue in power. Likewise, González Pons has rejected the PSOE and UP counter-offer to the ERC amendment to eliminate non-profit embezzlement and only reduce the penalties, warning that the argument that "when stealing for politics is not such a crime is not admissible." serious".

Likewise, González Pons has warned that the motion of censure requested by Vox and Cs would only serve so that "the Government of Sánchez, supported by the independentistas and by Bildu, would obtain a parliamentary victory." "We want the motion of censure to be at the polls and in the street", he has summoned against. Questioned if the rejection of the motion is due to the parliamentary inability of the PP to kick out Sánchez de la Moncloa, González Pons has indicated that "we are not talking about the numbers that we have but about the hard face of the president who is in power at all costs".

The popular leader and MEP has also referred to the changes that the Government proposes to unblock the renewal of the Constitutional Court and has criticized the focus on judges with sanctions if they fail to comply, wondering why nobody holds Congress or the Senate responsible for their breaches . "It is much easier to attack judges because they cannot defend themselves," said the Valencian politician, in whose opinion, Sánchez wants to resolve the blockade of the division of powers "with a blow to the division of powers", something that "with time it will bring a deterioration" of politics, he has predicted.