When Alberto Núñez Feijóo found out, from journalists, at the anniversary event of the Constitution, that Pedro Sánchez was going to call him to propose a meeting, the PP made bets that the call would take place yesterday, Monday. And five days later, time proved the popular party right, although there was no call from Sánchez to Feijóo, but rather from the cabinet of the Prime Minister to that of the leader of the opposition, to set a date, among three that were offered.
What's more, yesterday, the pools that were made in Génova 13 talked about the call taking place in the afternoon, so that today's headlines would be about the meeting between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, news due to the strangeness of the meetings between the two, and, they say in the PP, thus "covering" the debate on the amnesty that will take place in Congress.
With this argument, Miguel Tellado justified that the PP did not want to decide on the date of the meeting, of the three that La Moncloa gave to the PP for its celebration. "The important thing is not when, but why," defended the spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress at a press conference. So there will be no date in the next few hours, so that the debate on the amnesty is not hidden behind the meeting.
"Sanchez is interested in talking about anything except the amnesty law, which attacks democracy," said Tellado, who also considered "a lack of respect for the opposition leader, to say that the President of the Government is going to call him." and five days later they call him from his cabinet, the day before the amnesty law is debated." In his opinion he is a "joke."
And regarding the meeting itself, the PP considers that of the three issues that the Government has proposed: General Council of the Judiciary, article 49 of the Constitution and regional financing, Feijóo wants to deal with other things, such as the amnesty.
The PP also refuses to establish "negotiating tables" as the President of the Government has announced that he wants to do, because it considers that it is an attempt "to whitewash the negotiating tables, outside of Spain and with a mediator", and that Pedro Sánchez can say that he speaks with the independentists, but also with the PP. That is why the popular ones propose that the negotiations that may take place be done "in the institutions", and that includes the Government or Congress, "seat of national sovereignty", and "with lights and stenographers", and the rest, he said. "They are fireworks, for which they do not count on us.
For the Popular spokesperson, Sánchez is not interested in renewing the Judiciary, but rather in "controlling justice"; With regional financing it aims to "justify the bilateral negotiations that it has agreed with Catalonia", and that is why it demands that this bilaterality be abandoned, and from article 49 of the Constitution the PP demands guarantees from the PSOE that the constitutional modification "is not going to serve so that the independentists incorporate, through amendment, issues that affect territorial integrity".
But the PP intends to talk about these issues later, Tellado believes that today it is time to talk about amnesty, starting because he considers that the admission of the law, today in Congress, makes it "a bad day for democracy and the state of right", in which the payment to the independentistas is "consummated in exchange for Sánchez being president".
Congress is debating a law that in the opinion of the PP is "illegal and unconstitutional", something that, Tellado said, the Government knows "which just a few months ago said it", and the independentistas know it "who have had to resort to blackmail to an unscrupulous politician, to see his crimes erased".
Given this, Feijóo, during the debate, will defend that the amnesty "has no place in our constitutional framework" and that "we may not have the votes, but we have reason on our side", which in his opinion Pedro Sánchez knows, that "he is hiding again and does not even dare to defend the law that made him president."
