Sunday’s demonstration in Pamplona confirms to the PP that there is great social unrest due to the agreement between the PSOE and Bildu, and that is why it will not stop there and will start a campaign against the motion of censure, throughout Spain, while calling for “officially and solemnly” to the PSOE, to “back off” and renounce supporting that motion with Bildu.
The PP will bring motions to all the town councils in Spain to vote on a statement against handing over a mayoralty to Bildu, to check if among all the socialist councilors in all of Spain “there are any left with dignity”, because in the opinion of the PP “there is no “can allow the lie to be consolidated and cannot agree with those who defend that ETA had reason to exist.”
The PP spokesperson, Borja Sémper, recalled, in a press conference after the meeting of the steering committee, that a few days ago, Bildu, in Pamplona “refused to condemn an ??act of vandalism against a plaque commemorating the murder by ETA of the head of the provincial police”, and asked himself “is this the normality they demand?” He also recalled that Bildu, in Euskadi, recently “refused to condemn the desecration of Fernando Buesa’s tomb,” and asked, “is that progressive?”
The PP will, therefore, bring motions to all the municipalities, because it considers “an indignity to remain silent”, and that “everyone swallows” that Sánchez has said that he would agree with Bildu, and now not only does he agree, but he is given the Pamplona mayor’s office.
The Popular Party, according to Sémper, will continue to bet “on removing mayoralties from Bildu”, as the PP and PSOE did in Vitoria and other Basque municipalities, and in Barcelona. The popular spokesperson concludes that “history will put each of us in our place.” And statements like that of Óscar Puente are not valid for the PP, emphasizing that Bildu has all the legitimacy to be in politics, because for the popular ones, “one thing is that Bildu has representation in the institutions, and another that the governability of the country depends of Otegi and Bildu”.
Regarding the pending meeting between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the PP spokesperson described it as “regrettable and unprofessional” that twelve days after knowing the intentions of the President of the Government, and one week after receiving the call from Sánchez’s cabinet, The PP still does not have official knowledge, in writing, as requested, of the matters to be discussed at the meeting.
Borja Sémper clarified that the PP “is an institutional party and we do not refuse to sit down,” but he believes that by requesting the agenda in writing, and being able to include issues in it, “we are not asking for amnesty, like Junts,” but rather “a agenda”, which logically, he stressed, “will include talking about judicial independence”.
Since, in the opinion of the PP spokesperson, this is “unprofessional and unserious”, he concludes that “it is a mere tactic of the Government”, and warns that “we are not going to indulge” in this “torticero tactic”. Semper insists that the PP has not been told what the president of the government wants to talk about at the meeting, and that is why he believes that the Executive has launched this initiative to meet with the president of the PP, so that they coincide, more or less, on time, with the planned interview with the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and with a hypothetical meeting with Carles Puigdemont.