As long as Pedro Sánchez is not invested, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's mission is to prepare in case the elections are repeated on January 14 through the denunciation of the counterparties that the socialist candidate is prepared to grant. Amnesty and referendum are his main cards. A majority of Congress could speak out in favor of Pedro Sánchez's aspirations, but the populists seek to mobilize citizens "in defense of equality among Spaniards" and against the current "renunciations" of the pro-independence parties.
In this effort, the popular leader arrived in Toledo yesterday, in an event "that is a little more than a rally", in the words of Feijóo himself. An event similar to the one the PP already celebrated in September in Santiago de Compostela first, and then in Madrid. And it won't be the last. Next Sunday he will take his message to Málaga, and on the first Sunday of November to Valencia. Always on the street, to say "no to amnesty".
Toledo is a special place, after the session of the Commission of Autonomous Communities in the Senate, in which the autonomous 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 refused to go to the Upper House debate despite being the only regional president of the PSOE who has shown himself against the forgiveness of the events of 2017.
The PP filled the square of the Town Hall of Toledo and in front of the congregants proclaimed that for the independence supporters, 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", warned Feijóo.
The leader of the PP does not rule out that Sánchez gets his investiture and that he can form a government, "but it will be a government that will be born broken", he said, which is why he predicts 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 Spaniards", he alleged. He can 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 the dishonor".
In a clearly pre-election speech, the PP leader's criticism was not only aimed at Sánchez, but also at the socialist leaders who maintain a low profile despite being against the negotiation. "The PSOE no longer has any self-love left" because "if it had it, it wouldn't fall into the shame of having to deny everything the socialists have said so far; they would not remain silent and servile taking note of the duties and requirements imposed on them by the pro-independence parties", criticized Feijóo. "If they had self-love - he stressed - they would not surrender to a fugitive from justice and would not be silent in the face of those who insult the socialists who built the PSOE". Feijóo also denounced the silence before "ministers who are condescending to terrorist acts in the Middle East".
Despite this, the leader of the PP does not give up on the PSOE and is convinced that one day "he will look back and be ashamed of what is happening". According to him, 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 investiture negotiation.
According to Feijóo, the socialists were absent "because they have nothing good to say on behalf of their party". And if they were sure "that what they are doing is right, there would be elections on January 14, so that the citizens could decide on amnesty and self-determination".
The popular leader will continue in the line of opposition started after his failed investiture and will do so in the Senate. "We will exercise our majority whether they like it or not", and the next step will be to bring the conclusions of the regional presidents' debate to the plenary session, so they can be voted on.
