Feijóo would prefer new elections: "Between the deception of lies and elections, I prefer elections," said this Tuesday the president of the PP, in his appearance in Congress, before the media, after meeting with the King and thus closing the second round of contacts by Felipe VI to designate a candidate, once the popular leader's candidacy failed.
He prefers elections, but Alberto Núñez Feijóo is convinced that the agreement "is practically done", and that we are witnessing "a theatricalization" that will be seen a lot in the coming weeks. The president of the PP is convinced that Sánchez already has an agreement with Sumar, despite the words of the leader of this political formation, Yolanda Díaz, who on Monday assured that the agreement "is far away." Theatricalization, insists the popular leader, because he believes that the acting president of the Government also has closed the agreement with ERC, that Bildu and the BNG "give him free support", and only Puigdemont is missing.
So if there are elections, Feijóo assured, "Puigdemont will decide," not Pedro Sánchez, to whom he grants only the role of "supporting actor in a play directed by Puigdemont." For this reason, the president of the PP is more interested in "what Puigdemont says than what Mr. Sánchez says."
Theatricalization, because if not, he considers that the general secretary of the PSOE would have asked "the King for a little time, if only for a little dignity", since if what is published and what his partners say were true, Pedro Sánchez " now has less support than a month ago" and today "it would not reach 130 deputies" to support him, when he reached 172 seats, and the socialist leader and his partners "criticized that he accepted the King's commission, for not reaching at 176".
Feijóo predicts "a theatricalization of demands, anger, tensions, false ruptures, and final agreements", which he considers to be those that have already been made, although Sánchez says that he is going to begin contacts now with the other groups to try to form a majority that allows him the investiture.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo appeared before the media after meeting with the King, whom he guaranteed that he would support the decision he made "whoever the candidate was." This does not prevent the president of the PP from being very critical of Pedro Sánchez and his partners, especially those who did not attend the round of contacts with Felipe VI, "who do not accept the legitimacy of the constitutional monarchy" as they do not accept "nor the Constitution nor the democratic rules of the game".
For this reason, the popular leader demands from Sánchez "clarity" about what he is negotiating and to put an end to "the opaque negotiations" that he maintains with "populist parties of the left and extreme left" and with the independentists, "who aim to liquidate constitutional equality and separation of powers".
Alberto Núñez Feijóo warns about the formation of that majority that Sánchez is building, "which is a presumed negative majority," because they are only united by the no, he assured. "Not to the one who won the elections, not to the Constitution, not to the rule of law and not to the general interests of the Spanish people." For the president of the PP, "the only common project of all the parties is that it is a coalition of interests of all those who lost the elections."
In his audience with the King, Feijóo also made a "positive assessment" of the assignment of trying to form a government that the monarch had given him, despite being "three yeses away" - the PP recognizes Eduard Pujol's vote as a yes, of Junts, which the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, considered null. The positive assessment is due, according to Feijóo, to the fact that "I have not had to give up my principles, my program and national dignity", because "I have not wanted to be president at any price.
