Anger is growing in the PP, due to the way in which the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is attempting an approach to the PP and how he is "selling" that approach. The President of the Government has not had a conversation with Alberto Núñez Feijóo since they met for the two investitures, and for this reason, the popular ones consider that Sánchez is trying to win the story, when he has no intention of reaching any State pact. Hence the PP issues warnings: "If he does not want to change the law of the Judiciary, the call can be avoided."
Sources from the PP explain that Sánchez's announcement about his intention to create a working group with Feijóo, among other things to renew the General Council of the Judiciary, is an attempt by the Government to stage that negotiations are also being held with the Popular Party. In this way, he would try to "whitewash" the dialogue tables that the PSOE maintains with Junts or ERC. These same sources joke and ask if the future commission to which Sánchez calls will meet "in Spain or abroad."
Along these lines, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, assured yesterday in Zaragoza that the PP "does not require any dialogue table, like the independentistas", and that "they do not count on us to whitewash the negotiations with the independentistas." The number two of the PP does not understand that it is necessary to change the working method that has always existed between the Government and the opposition and makes it clear that "what is going to be negotiated will be at the level of the institutions and in Parliament. No tables , nor mediators, and of course in Spanish territory".
From that interview between Sánchez and Feijóo that the President of the Government announced to journalists yesterday, the PP still knows nothing, except what it has read in the press, but Cuca Gamarra advances that if they finally call them from the Government, Feijóo will raise the issues that they want to be discussed at the meeting, apart from those proposed by the President of the Executive. And the first issue, he said, "will be the amnesty and the defense of equality among Spaniards," because it is the most important and most complex measure of those that the Government, and the main opposition party and majority in the House, "has something to say."
The second issue to be included on the agenda, by the PP, will be, said Gamarra, "the rest of the known transfers to the independentists, because the Spanish have the right to know what is being negotiated" and the reasons why it is necessary to submit it to an international verifier, whether it is one, two or four, and also want to know who pays for it.
Although they do not accept the mention of the television advertisements, the PP does not stop talking about the issues that Sánchez wants to discuss with Feijóo. And starting with the General Council of the Judiciary, sources from the national leadership respond to Sánchez that "if they are not going to change the law, they can avoid the call," because there is no going back to this condition, too many things have happened to act otherwise. shape. A question that they reiterate after both the steering committee last Monday, and Feijóo yesterday at the reception in Congress on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Constitution, already made his position clear.
For them, it is essential that the Judiciary Law be modified, with regard to the way in which its members are elected, and that the Council be renewed with the new law. In his opinion and contrary to what Sánchez says, this is Europe's position on the issue. Gamarra also made it clear: "We are not going to change our minds" and "we are not going to favor Sánchez controlling the Judiciary."
The PP knows that it is a demand that Feijóo has not made so far in the negotiations that have taken place, but considers that the situation is different and that Pedro Sánchez has known how to give in when it has suited him, and if he now wants to renew the Council, he already knows your demand. "To get the 7 votes from Junts they made an amnesty law and to get the 137 from the Popular Party they will have to change the law to depoliticize justice." Or as Feijóo said yesterday, if Sánchez wants to "deepen the independence of Justice, we can negotiate, if he wants to continue politicizing Justice, there is nothing to talk about."
The PP also talks about the other issues that Sánchez supposedly wants to raise in a meeting with Feijóo, about which the PP leader only knows something from the press. Regarding the constitutional change of article 49, to change the word that now appears "disabled" to "disabled", the PP emphasizes that there was already an agreement in the previous legislature, because the two parties, PSOE and PP, have assumed the Cermi's wording on this change, and that the reform is limited to this issue, but as in the previous legislature, the change "is subject to its partners not demanding a constitutional referendum and that cannot be guaranteed by the president of the government."
And although the reform is limited to that change, the PP and the PSOE want to avoid a campaign for a possible referendum, if held, in which they do not talk about disability, but about Monarchy-Republic, or the right to decide. , contaminating the result of the reform.
The other issue mentioned on Wednesday by Sánchez, the Financing system, the PP considers that it is a matter to be discussed in the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, and it is feared that wanting to talk about it with the PP is an element to be able to say that it It deals bilaterally with Junts, or with ERC, as it deals with the PP. For this reason, the position of the popular party, said Cuca Gamarra, is that "we are not going to lend ourselves" to giving advantages to the PSOE, and assured that the PP will be a "guarantee of multilateralism" in the debate on financing and in defense. "of equality between Spaniards" and stressed that the PP "is not going to be a bargaining chip to facilitate perks"
The PP does not hide its discomfort with the way in which Sánchez is approaching this possible meeting with Feijóo, and that is why sources from the national leadership emphasize that "we wait for the President of the Government to give us a response and inform us, beyond that we have the TV on".
