"This won't happen tomorrow, because his party won't allow it", they warned Moncloa when they heard that Alberto Núñez Feijóo was summoning Pedro Sánchez to hold a new meeting to "find a solution to the territorial problem of Catalonia". And so it was, they point out, since a few hours later, faced with the uproar in some sectors of its formation and the counterclaim of the extreme right of Vox, they remember that the Popular Party itself was forced to "clarify" the words of Feijóo
The likelihood of a proposal that Feijóo "was unable to explain", and that the PP hastened to clarify in order not to further stir the waters of the right, is null for the socialists. And Pedro Sánchez communicated yesterday his refusal to hold another appointment with Feijóo, to address the Catalan question, before the investiture debate that the leader of the PP will face at the end of this month.
The spokeswoman of the PSOE, the minister Pilar Alegría, was in charge of publicly shutting down Feijóo's claim to meet again with Sánchez to avoid together the demands of Carles Puigdemont to negotiate an investiture and avoid a repeat election. "We will not meet with a PP that is in the hands of the ultra-right", he concluded.
"This is not serious. That Feijóo does not waste the time of the others, who has already done enough by stopping a viable investiture, that of Sánchez, because of its impossibility", they warned Ferraz.
Minister Alegría also called on Feijóo to "clarify with his own party, before asking for meetings with others". He thus referred to the internal noise generated in the space of the right when the leader of the PP bet to find a "fit" for Catalonia.
The PP reacted immediately to the knock on the door of the PSOE. The general secretary of the formation, Cuca Gamarra, denounced that Sánchez refuses to see Feijóo and prefers to "throw himself into the arms" of the "fugitive" Puigdemont. A decision that shows, in his opinion, that the leader of the PSOE is "willing to do anything" in order to "be able to continue in the Government".
The spokeswoman for the PSOE, in any case, emphasized the impossibility of an understanding with the PP. "When we propose solutions, not only do we never count on the support of the PP for anything, but we only face noise, contempt and disrespect towards the PSOE", warned Alegría.
The socialists, in fact, consider that Feijóo is only looking to gain time, and to pretend that he is doing something until his investiture debate is held, for which he only has the votes of Vox, in an attempt to keep the surface his leadership in the PP.
Alegría accused him of keeping the country "inexplicably paralyzed" in order to "postpone his internal crisis in the PP". But as soon as his "fake investiture" is consumed, he predicted, his leadership "will be questioned" in his own ranks.
Eye for eye, from the PP, Gamarra also put the spotlight on the voices of socialist veterans who criticize the amnesty demanded by Puigdemont: "Today the socialists cannot look their historical leaders in the face, nor many of their militants , nor the vast majority of its voters", he assured.
The legal and political debate on the constitutionality or advisability of applying an amnesty to those prosecuted by the process continued yesterday in the socialist ranks. With black, white and gray, as always. After the criticisms of Felipe González, Alfonso Guerra or Ramón Jáuregui, also Joaquín Almunia, ex-minister and ex-secretary general of the PSOE, warned that at the moment he does not see the conditions for an amnesty being met. Before talking about amnesty, he pointed out, Puigdemont and the other leaders of the process should be required to make a "political correction" for "the destruction they caused to Catalan society".
And Javier Lambán, the leader of the Aragonese Socialists, considered that an amnesty law "would open a waterway to the constitutional ship that could take it directly adrift".
The president of Asturias, the socialist Adrián Barbón, assumed instead that in all kinds of agreements "a price must be paid". And if these agreements, always within the Constitution, achieve the formation of a progressive government in Spain, "I will be happy and satisfied".
