On February 18, Galicia not only chooses who will preside over the Xunta, or at least that is what the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, wants to convey to Galicians, so that they do not take for granted that the continuity of the current regional executive is guaranteed . The PP needs to obtain an absolute majority to continue governing, and although it has already achieved this in the last four elections, it is not that easy.
For this reason, the choice posed by the president of the PP for the 18-F is either the Popular Party or independence. The popular leader's message on the second day of the XXVI Interparliamentary that the PP held at the weekend in Ourense was focused on this dichotomy, which will be a central issue of the pre-campaign. Or the Popular party, that is, Alfonso Rueda, or independence, because only the BNG candidate has a chance of reaching the presidency of the Xunta, in a multi-party government presided over by the nationalists, which means, in the opinion of the PP, that the socialist candidate is actually that of the Bloc, which in order to govern would have to form a government with the PSOE, with Sumar and with Podemos, if the latter two obtain parliamentary representation.
The president of the PP, they are already campaigning, just like Pedro Sánchez - who closed at the same time at the other end of Galicia, in A Coruña, the convention of the PSOE -, asked that the Galicians trust in his successor and president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, "so that Galicia does not take the road to nowhere", he said, referring to the pro-independence partners of the Spanish Government and the nationalist drift that, in his opinion, is gaining strength in other autonomous communities.
So that Rueda can repeat the triumph that Feijóo obtained four years ago, when he obtained 42 seats out of the 75 that make up the Galician Parliament, the president of the PP asked for the vote of all those who voted for him in the previous Galician elections, to those who voted for him on 23-J in the general elections and "those who voted for Vox", whom he asked to support "the only alternative to Sanchismo", since Santiago Abascal's party, according to the polls, will not have the 5% vote required to obtain representation. He also asked for the vote of those who supported the socialists and who have realized that they have been lied to, that they have been ripped off, and that they are not doing what they told them they would do, but the opposite. The Galician socialists, also according to the polls, have no options of coming in second place - no one disputes that the first place will be for the PP - therefore, the popular people reason, the new executive, if it is not from the PP, will not be a socialist , but nationalist, of the BNG. A formation that Rueda took it upon himself to remind that has demonstrated with EH Bildu to demand the freedom of ETA prisoners "who killed Galicians in the Basque Country".
Feijóo sees an absolute majority possible, for the fifth time, "if no vote is given as lost", if it goes out to trample "all the towns" and if the PP "goes out on the streets hungry, with desire" and convinces the Galicians that voting for the PP, on February 18, is "voting for Galicia".
The popular leader entered the campaign with a mainly Galician speech, as did the president of the Xunta, although Feijóo did not forget his criticism of Sánchez, taking into account, he said, those he received on Saturday from the meeting of the socialists in A Coruña. Thus, he accused Sánchez of leading "the biggest democratic setback since the approval of the Constitution" by hoarding, in his opinion, all the institutions, from the CIS to the Efe agency through the Constitutional Court, and saying that in the name of coexistence "there will be amnesty if you make me president, if not, no".
Núñez Feijóo pointed out that "it is not surprising that the pro-independence people are so full of pride" and that they clearly say to the Spanish that "what they say is done here". And this is what the president of the PP is trying to warn Galicians against. "We don't want to bring problems from other places to Galicia", he insisted, and warned that if the BNG wins there will be a government in Galicia similar to the one that governs Spain. "Sánchez is the current of the independenceists' expectations", insisted Feijóo, for whom they only want "that we are not united, to go back on rights, rupture, inequality". Independenceists, he stressed, "who want their ideology more than Galicia". In front of him, Rueda "endorses the confidence of the word given, the responsible work, and the guarantee of political stability, so necessary for there to be economic stability", he concluded.
In the morning, the deputy secretary of regional and local coordination and electoral analysis of the PP, Elías Bendodo, demanded that the central government call the conference of presidents and undertake "the necessary simultaneous reform of local and regional financing". In his speech, Bendodo assured that the central government "has been saying for years" that it will address regional financing and emphasized that his party demands that "local financing is also reformed at the same time". "Sánchez cannot make all the effort fall on the town councils and the autonomous communities while he continues to fatten his pharaoh's court of 22 ministries and thousands of high-ranking officials and advisers," he proclaimed.
