The PP mobilizes its barons: Moreno asks for a conference of presidents

The PP has mobilized the 14 regional presidents of its party against the PSOE agreements with Junts per Catalunya.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
10 November 2023 Friday 09:20
4 Reads
The PP mobilizes its barons: Moreno asks for a conference of presidents

The PP has mobilized the 14 regional presidents of its party against the PSOE agreements with Junts per Catalunya. To the multiple initiatives promoted these days to avoid or question the agreement, yesterday was added that of the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, who requested an urgent meeting of the conference of regional presidents in which the socialist leader should explain what consequences The decisions adopted in the document signed in Brussels will apply to the rest of the autonomous governments.

In the letter in which he asks the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for this meeting, Moreno expresses “the enormous concern and concern that the agreements that his party is reaching in Spanish society, and particularly in Andalusia, are generating. with other formations", which in his opinion "put at risk basic principles such as the rule of law, equality between Spaniards and legal security."

The Andalusian president assures in his letter that he is concerned about "the questioning" that the agreements make of the "role of justice and specifically of the Constitutional Court", as well as "the rewriting of the historical story" of what happened in Catalonia, "absolutely condescending with those who broke the law and used public funds” to achieve their goals.

Moreno advances his position to Sánchez and announces that he will ask him for “a rethinking of the situation on his part, the renunciation of the agreements that endanger equality between the citizens of all the territories of Spain and the calling of general elections in "those that Spaniards can express their wishes about the future of the Government of Spain."

According to PP sources, Moreno will not be the only one to request this meeting. The president of Castilla y León, another community governed by the PP, has also announced that he will request the holding of this meeting.

This initiative joins the many that the PP is developing and plans to carry out in the legal, political, institutional and social sphere, thus joining protests such as those of judges, prosecutors, professors, professional associations, Treasury inspectors and the Guard. Civil in which the Popular Party sees its position reaffirmed.

“Do you think everyone is wrong?” the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, asked the PSOE yesterday in a press conference after the extraordinary meeting of the steering committee called by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to analyze the content of the document signed in Brussels on Thursday.

The PP called on Spaniards to express their “rejection, indignation, protest, disagreement, unrest” in the rallies called by the PP on Sunday, which Feijóo promotes on X with the hashtag: “Spain does not surrender.” He calls not only to PP supporters, but to all citizens, regardless of the party, “because this surpasses the parties.” The popular ones, however, and marking distance with the recent altercation registered in some cities, and particularly in Madrid, stressed that the expression of this rejection only has one limit, that "it be done in a civic and peaceful manner."

The PP considers that the agreement represents “a throwback to the worst days of 2017,” said Gamarra, since “there is a recognition that in our country there is a dirty judicial war, that the judges have political motivations in their actions and that they have “unjustly persecuted” the independence movement.

Given the seriousness of what, in the opinion of the PP, the application of the agreement with Junts will mean, the PP is trying to mobilize, also the socialists, and especially the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, “to remind him of his responsibility ”, and even more so after yesterday he said that he will oppose the agreement.

Cuca Gamarra warned him that “this is the time to fight,” because “tomorrow will be too late,” and added that “stop empty words and move on to actions. Otherwise “it will be as responsible as the PSOE for what happens.

On the other hand, the PP assured that the Canary Coalition's support for Sánchez's investiture will not jeopardize the PP coalition with the Canarian nationalists. Gamarra warned the coalition that he will have to explain his support to his voters, “knowing what is behind the other investiture agreements.”