The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, starred yesterday in the only rally in which he will participate in Catalonia in this campaign, in which he gave his support to the popular candidate for Barcelona mayor, Daniel Sirera, and called for a change in the issues of conversation in order to recover "good politics", which is what "unites society", in the face of the "frivolity" of those who, without experience, are guided by the ideology of "radical minorities" and increase the division.
Under a persistent threat of rain that did not disturb the event, held in Turó Park in front of some five hundred people and between Catalan and Spanish flags, Feijóo recounted the PP's proposals for Barcelona and Catalonia, which he contrasted with the measures promoted by his antagonist, Pedro Sánchez, from Moncloa.
To begin with, Feijóo puffed his chest out of being able to surround himself with real people and not "extras" like those who accompany the President of the Spanish Government in the videos in which he stars and he was enunciating the things that he does not like about Barcelona, starting with its "decline", which he extended to the whole of Catalonia. The popular leader recalled that the Catalan capital was a city whose "virtues were admired by Europe and the world" and that it has lost potential, as he said, due to the bad government of "populists and independentists."
In this sense, Feijóo denounced that in Barcelona the streets are "neglected" and there is "circulatory chaos" due to the "tactical urbanism" deployed by the City Council, but he also took the opportunity to criticize the management of commuter trains by the central government : "Rodalies is getting worse every day, and that is why the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, has been disapproved."
For Feijóo, this shows that the PSC "is not interested in public services." "It's false," he exclaimed, and accused the politicians who govern Barcelona, referring to Ada Colau's commons, of being more activists than managers and of being guided more by their ideology than by the "real problems of the citizens."
"It is incredible that Colau's right hand, who has contributed to creating the problems, presents himself as the solution," charged Feijóo, on the other hand, against the socialist candidate, Jaume Collboni. But neither Xavier Trias, whom he placed at the origin of most of the problems that, in his opinion, the city suffers from, nor Ernest Maragall, due to his belonging to the ERC Government, escaped criticism.
All in all, the sharpest, albeit subtle, dart was reserved for Vox. Without mentioning the ultra-right, which this 2023 can once again surpass the PP in the Barcelona municipal elections, as happened two years ago in the Catalan ones, Feijóo mocked those who "have never solved anything anywhere."
In this sense, the leader of the PP, who was preceded by the president of the party in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, reiterated Sirera's constant appeal to the useful vote and celebrated the "approach" of former officials and Ciudadanos militants.
"They have understood the message that together we are stronger," said Feijóo, who showed his "moral and ethical" commitment to unite the non-independence center-right to rescue Catalonia from "closed ideologies", alluding to independence, and the " frivolity” that he attributes to rulers “inexperienced” outside of politics who are guided by the “ideology” of “radical minorities”.
After several days of controversy over the inclusion in the EH Bildu lists of those convicted of terrorism who have already served their sentences, an issue that has allowed his fellow rank and file Isabel Díaz Ayuso to raise his tone to request the outlawing of the abertzale formation, Feijóo applied the recipe for changing the conversation and did not spend much time on the subject.
However, the head of the opposition did not fail to point out that Sánchez is a president "who has not done anything against terrorism, because he found it solved when he came to government", and called it "ignominy" that the socialist leader affirmed that the PP "was always interested in terrorism and was never interested in ending ETA."
“The PP has always defended the Constitution, it has always shown its face. We have defeated terrorism among all of us", claimed Feijóo, who regretted that the president has not rectified his "mean words", although he acknowledged, correcting Ayuso, that terrorism is "defeated" and it is a problem that has already been "solved". .
