The PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has found in Europe a stage where it can escape from not governing in Spain and, in harmony with the president of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, has set a plebiscite on the European elections of 2024 Rule of law in Spain as a strategy to erode the socialists.
This is the main key to the Road to Recovery conference, held yesterday in Barcelona, ??which, under the pretext of debating economic challenges, focused on questioning the future amnesty law and the PSOE’s agreements with pro-independence forces .
For the popular Spanish and Europeans, the investiture pact means the breaking of the division of powers in Spain, so they will use its content – the amnesty, the creation of commissions on lawfare in Congress or the intervention of a international mediator in Switzerland – as a political argument in the next appointment with the polls.
In this way, Weber intends to open a gap in the social democratic electorate that will allow the EPP to achieve a dominant position on the European board from next year. That is why his warning that the steps, wrong, in his opinion, that the Spanish Government is now taking, can lead to a situation similar to that of Poland and Hungary, countries sanctioned by the European Commission for their democratic deficit.
The intention to internationalize the Spanish process, which already had a preamble in the debate on the Rule of Law in Spain on Wednesday in the European Parliament, is shared by Feijóo, for whom the threat he sees hovering over Spanish democracy it will end up affecting all of Europe, whose values ??it considers to be in danger. “The European Union cannot normalize in Spain what it does not accept in other countries”, he said.
Despite the anti-government demonstrations of recent weeks, particularly in Madrid, the president of the PP believes that Spanish society “is not divided” and that the tension is due to an “ideological mutation” of the PSOE, which has embraced “extremist positions” because its general secretary, Pedro Sánchez, can continue at the head of the Executive. An “anomaly” throughout Europe.
As for the day-to-day, focused on the terrible situation in Gaza, both Feijóo and Antonio Tajani, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and leader of Forza Italia, questioned the “diplomatic crisis” opened by Sánchez with Israel based on his offer , “without counting on the European partners”, to recognize Palestine, a position, they recalled, applauded by the terrorist group Hamas. “It is a serious mistake by Spanish diplomacy”, said Feijóo.
In addition to Weber, Tajani and Feijóo himself, PP leaders took part in the conference, such as MEP Dolors Montserrat, who acted as hostess; the president of Aragon, Jorge Azcón; the Valencian deputy in Congress Esteban González Pons, and the mayors of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-, and Badalona, ??Xavier García Albiol.
“No one will take away from the Spaniards the freedom and democracy that our fathers took so hard to get. Spain is a great nation, where European values ??have taken root forever, which is why Europe is playing so hard in view of a profoundly anti-European amnesty”, said Montserrat in the welcome speech.
Unaware of the political turmoil, and in an appointment that was theoretically about recovery, the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, offered his unique recipe: after explaining that the pact that most upsets him is that of the PSOE with Sumar, because it considers him contrary to business interests, suggested to the PP that it seek “maximum complicity” with Junts and the PNB taking into account their “coincidences” in economic matters.