Sánchez to Feijóo: "When you get up, look to see if you feel anything in your back"

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, used this Tuesday the control session to the Government in the Senate to warn the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of his own party colleagues.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 February 2023 Tuesday 10:24
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Sánchez to Feijóo: "When you get up, look to see if you feel anything in your back"

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, used this Tuesday the control session to the Government in the Senate to warn the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of his own party colleagues. "I understand that he asks for a certain amount of warmth from his fellow seats," said Sánchez, citing a message that was actually a carbon copy of those sent by his loyalists to Pablo Casado minutes before ousting him: "Alberto, you always win when, in addition to the head you speak with your heart, today you have done it”. He celebrated it and added, as advice, that "in any case, Mr. Feijóo, when you get up, look to see if he has something on his back."

It was the way in which the head of the executive responded to the repeated allusions by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the disagreements between the ministers of the coalition government: “It is enough that Pedro Sánchez protects Pedro Sánchez, it is enough that Yolanda Díaz protect your space, it's good that Podemos protects Podemos, it's time for someone to dedicate themselves to protecting the Spanish people”, said the popular leader.

In the control session question, Núñez Feijóo had started by assuring that "Spain is tired of its Government and it is tired of you", and reviewed the different positions of the ministers regarding the regulation of the shopping basket or international politics. And he assured that the reason why there have been dismissals in the Ministry of Transport due to the controversy over the Feve trains and not in the Ministry of Equality – due to the controversy of the 'Only yes is yes' law – is because “ his weakness so as not to be able to dismiss any high position of Podemos”. In conclusion, in the opinion of the PP, the president "prefers to protect the coalition than Spanish women."

The president took the gauntlet and stressed that a stable and effective government is "one that approves three general state budgets in a timely manner and not one that approves only one and what it does is extend it for three years", one that "approves laws with all the groups” and not the one that does not approve any bill that has other support than the party itself. He recalled the “fifteen agreements with the agreements with the social agents” and “the twenty conferences of presidents”.

He reviewed his government's initiatives to protect the country's social majorities and concluded by stating that the PP “every time they have had the opportunity to position themselves among the majority or defend a privileged minority, they have done what they always do: protect a minority elitist”.

Feijóo counterattacked by accusing the president of trying to "buy people", he assured that "everything he has spent on scholarships he will leave in debt" and predicted that this government will leave "the largest public debt in the history of Spain". But the most controversial accusation of his came with the Trans law. Feijóo predicted that it will be "a bigger botch than the 'Only yes is yes' law", asked if Sánchez agrees that minors can "take hormones" or "undergo surgery" and ended by blurting out: "Stop bothering good people Stop meddling in other people's lives."

"I never imagined, ladies and gentlemen, that recognizing rights would bother good people," Sánchez began. The president made Feijóo ugly for pretending to be a spokesperson for “classical feminism”, recalled that although today they adhere to the legal right to abortion, they already opposed the regulation of the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2010, shouting “Zapatero, butcher ", and concluded:" To talk about feminism you have to have credit.