"Let him rectify and deny his ministers." This is what the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asks the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Let him deny his ministers, "whom he brought out to say that an agreement is possible" once Carles Puigdemont put "the blackmail of amnesty and the right to self-determination" on the table.
"I ask Pedro Sánchez to go back and rectify and say that the amnesty does not fit in the Constitution, nor does the self-determination referendum", as he himself said before two months, because "it is immoral to be willing to give up everything to be in the power". But the PP will be there, "to give a voice to all those who want to silence."
The request is clear: "Let him deny his ministers and say that he is not willing to give in to the illegal pretensions of the independence movement," after "a challenge to our model of coexistence" has been put on the table. It is the response of the popular leader to the slogan that the Government has imposed on its ranks that the response to those who oppose the amnesty is that Pedro Sánchez has not yet said anything about the amnesty. Sánchez does not, but his ministers do, every time they say that there are ways for dialogue, when amnesty is demanded.
There was great expectation for the meeting between Aznar and Feijóo, not because they have not become regular, after the disagreements of the former president of the Government with the PP when Casado led it, but because of Aznar's intervention last Monday, at the inauguration of the Faes Campus, in which he called for civic and institutional mobilization against the amnesty and the right to self-determination.
The two were aware that eyes were on them, after certain political and media sectors wanted to interpret Aznar's call and the subsequent call for the PP event, on the 24th, in Madrid, as a problem of Feijóo leadership.
And Aznar strove to prove that this is not the case. First, he was the first to arrive at the meeting, and waited patiently for the arrival of the current president, to warmly greet Feijóo upon his arrival, and enter the room together. Aznar also did so without making any reference to the public debate on the amnesty, after the Popular Party had announced in the morning that the two former presidents of the Government belonging to the PP, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, would attend the event called on the 24th. Just an allusion, when I finish: "It is time for hope. Let's listen to the hope of Spain", in reference to Feijóo.
The former president of the PP participated in a dialogue with the vice president of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, with whom he spoke about Europe, its future and its risks, including the risks of Artificial Intelligence, which is out of control, and where only He made an allusion to Catalan separatism "that wants to leave Spain.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo closed the Faes 2023 Campus showing his personal support, and that of the PP "in the face of the crazy attacks for having your opinion" coming, especially from the "minister spokesperson for the Government's insults", who represents "the political drift in which Spanish politics is immersed in", continuation of his "assault on all Spanish institutions". He even joked, "If Aznar were a coup leader, Sánchez would give him amnesty and ask him to vote for him."
Due to these statements, the leader of the PP asked Sánchez to dismiss the Minister Spokesperson, which he framed in the Government's attempt to "discredit all dissenting opinions and silence all critical opinions." as has happened with Nicolás Redondo, "expelled for defending the ideology of the PSOE."
However, for Feijóo, these types of statements by veteran PP leaders show that "he does not have the consent of the Socialist Party" to carry out the amnesty or the self-determination referendum, and represents "a fraud on those who voted for him, promising something different from what he now intends to do, which is quite the opposite.
The president of the PP recalled the times that Pedro Sánchez has stated that the amnesty and the self-determination referendum "did not fit into the Constitution" and wondered what has happened, in just two months, for them to now believe that it would be constitutional, and the only answer is that "he has lost the elections and needs the support of the independentistas to stay in power."
