“It is an unprecedented event in democracy,” they insist in the Moncloa, seeing how the pages of the calendar turn, as the current year is about to end, without Alberto Núñez Feijóo having even deigned to accept or reject any of the three dates. alternatives that Pedro Sánchez proposed, more than a week ago, to hold a first meeting in this new legislature.
In fact, the first of these three proposed dates for the meeting between Sánchez and Feijóo has already expired, because it was just yesterday. There are still two other possible appointments, as revealed yesterday in the Moncloa, perhaps as a pressure strategy, although for now without any success, on the leader of the Popular Party. The first of the only two possible dates left before the end of the year, for the meeting between the President of the Government and the head of the opposition, is next Friday, December 22. It is precisely the day of the traditional Christmas Lottery draw, when the children of San Ildefonso sing the winning numbers and half of Spain is waiting to check their tenths in case they win the jackpot.
The last date offered by Sánchez to Feijóo for this possible meeting, which the president wanted to hold before the end of the year, is Friday of next week, December 29. That is, just the day after the controversial motion of censure agreed between the PSOE and EH Bildu to evict UPN from the Pamplona mayor's office is voted on, which is precisely why Feijóo went to the Navarrese capital this past Sunday to participate in the protest demonstration called in this regard.
At Moncloa, for now, they remain silent regarding what Sánchez will do if Feijóo refuses to attend the meeting proposed by the president before the end of the year, which seems very likely. And they limit themselves to continuing to denounce the situation. “It is a serious and unprecedented fact that the head of the opposition does not respond to the call of the President of the Government for a meeting at the Moncloa,” the socialists insist every day.
“Enough of excuses,” they repeat one more day in Moncloa. “Why doesn't Feijóo want to go to this meeting?” they ask. But they still don't get a response. More than a week ago, the President of the Government proposed trying to achieve three State pacts with the head of the opposition, on the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, on a new autonomous financing model, and on the reform of article 49 of the Constitution, to eliminate the term diminished in reference to people with disabilities.
However, and given the PP's misgivings about this meeting, Moncloa reiterates that Feijóo can raise any other issue he deems appropriate in the meeting with Sánchez.
