The PP describes as "treason" the repeal of the crime of sedition announced by the Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in an interview on La Sexta. With the decision of the Government, the PP sees its decision to break off the negotiations for the renewal of the Judiciary reaffirmed and considers that the party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo did what he should.
PP sources regretted that it has been confirmed that "the Penal Code of our country is the currency of exchange with the independence movement to facilitate their stay in the Palacio de la Moncloa for another year." Along these lines, through a statement, the popular accused Sánchez of "humiliating Spain" and pointed out that the laws "cannot be drafted at the ERC headquarters for the political convenience of Pedro Sánchez."
These same sources underline that "neither the Constitution nor the rule of law can surrender to the needs of any political leader, least of all those who rose up against our nation. In no European country would the crime of sedition be taken from the hand of the seditious", they assured, in line with what Núñez Feijóo has been defending.
Sánchez's announcement caught the president of the PP in Ecuador, about to return to Spain after a week-long tour of Latin America. That was not an impediment for the popular to react forcefully to the repeal of this crime, which some PP leaders call "treason" by the Prime Minister.
For the PP, "Pedro Sánchez has given up being the president of all Spaniards." The popular ones are convinced that "Spain does not share the political priorities of a government surrendered to fugitive politicians or leaders with a final sentence for using autonomous institutions against Spain and against its territorial unity."
PP sources consider that "neither Pedro Sánchez is worthy of the PSOE's democratic tradition, nor can the PSOE remain silent in the face of this episode without being an express accomplice of this political barbarity", and for this reason it summons the socialist leaders, beginning with the barons, to that they say what they think about the fact that behaviors such as those that occurred in Catalonia in 2017 and that led to jail, for sedition, the main political leaders of the Catalan independence movement, are going to go unpunished. "The silence of their middle managers is a betrayal of the values that one day they decided to represent," they stress in the PP.
The PP believes that there are things that must be done by consensus between the two main parties, including the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, but it will not be possible while Sánchez is at the head of the Government. "As a political party we reaffirm ourselves: there will be understanding between the two great forces of Spain. But it will be with this PP and another PSOE. One in which there is not a Pedro Sánchez who today has humiliated a nation that deserves a more worthy government than suffers today, and a new project that guarantees greater democratic quality".
For the PP, "the political center and moderation no longer have space in the Government of Spain, and our nation deserves a focused Government at the height of a great country. And today it does not have it.
