As long as Pedro Sánchez is not inaugurated, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's mission is to prepare in case the elections are repeated on January 14 by denouncing the compensation that the socialist candidate is willing to grant. Amnesty and referendum are his main assets. A majority of Congress could speak out in favor of Pedro Sánchez's aspirations, but the popular party seeks to mobilize citizens "in defense of equality among Spaniards" and against the current "resignations" to the independentists.
In this desire, the popular leader arrived yesterday in Toledo, in an event “that is something more than a rally,” in the words of Feijóo himself. An event similar to the one that the PP held in September first in Santiago de Compostela, and later in Madrid. And it won't be the last. Next Sunday he will take his message to Malaga, and on the first Sunday of November, to Valencia. Always on the street, to say “no to amnesty.”
Toledo is a special square after the session of the Autonomous Communities commission in the Senate, where the regional presidents of the PP and that of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, spoke of amnesty and self-determination in the absence of the socialist barons, among them Emiliano García Page, who gave up attending the debate in the Upper House despite being the only regional president of the PSOE who has been against forgiveness for what happened in 2017.
The PP filled the Toledo City Hall square and proclaimed to those gathered that for the independentists, as Aragonès said, the amnesty “is a starting point,” but for Sánchez “it will be the end. History will judge him, and the polls will judge him,” Feijóo warned.
The leader of the PP does not rule out that Sánchez achieves his investiture and that he can form a government, “but it will be a government that will be born broken,” he said, so he foresees that the legislature will not be very long. “He may be president for a few months,” he said, “but he will be a resigned president because he will have failed to fulfill the main duty of a president, to defend the equality of the Spanish people,” he alleged. He may be president, he insisted, “but he will not exercise the greatest honor of a president, which is to serve the Spanish people. "He will hold the presidency of the government from disgrace."
In a clearly pre-electoral speech, the PP leader's criticism was not directed only at Sánchez, but at the socialist leaders who maintain a discreet profile despite being against the negotiation. “The PSOE no longer has any self-esteem left” because, “if it had it, it would not fall into the embarrassment of having to retract everything that the socialists have said until now; "They would not remain silent and servile taking note of the duties and requirements imposed on them by the independentists," Feijóo reproached. "If they had self-respect," he stressed, "they would not surrender to a fugitive from justice and they would not remain silent in the face of those who insult the socialists who built the PSOE." Feijóo also denounced the silence in the face of “the ministers who are condescending to terrorist acts in the Middle East.”
Even so, the leader of the PP does not consider the PSOE lost and is convinced that one day "he will look back and be ashamed of what is happening." In his opinion, the PSOE does not really believe in what it does. If that were the case, “they would defend it with arguments and not with excuses” and they would have gone to the Senate on Thursday to defend the negotiation.
According to Feijóo, the socialists were absent “because they have nothing good to say in the name of their party.” And if they were sure “that what they are doing is correct, there would be elections on January 14, so that citizens could decide on amnesty and self-determination.”
The popular leader will continue in the line of opposition initiated after his failed investiture and will do so in the Senate. “We are going to exercise our majority whether we like it or not,” and the next thing will be to bring to the plenary session, so that they can vote, the conclusions of the debate of the regional presidents.
