“The unbirthday party, as the Mad Hatter would say.” With this reference to the unreal world of Alice in Wonderland, the spokesperson for the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, has defined the speech given by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in his “non-investiture” debate. ”.
Feijóo's speech, in the opinion of the socialists, has shown the “absolute void” of the candidate for this investiture that is expected to fail. “There are no ideas, there are no proposals, nor is there leadership,” Patxi López summarized. More than half of the PP leader's investiture speech, he has criticized, has been an intervention for “a motion of censure” against Pedro Sánchez and the progressive Government in office. And the rest, he has assured, has been “a bombardment of false data.”
For example, Patxi López has warned, when Feijóo has assured that he has the necessary votes within his reach to be president, but that he is not willing to pay the price that the Catalan independentists would demand. “It is very epic, but it is false,” said the former Lehendakari and former president of Congress, since as the leader of the PP has highlighted, “in no way” could he gain a sufficient majority to win his investiture. “There will be no epic in Feijóo's defeat,” the socialist spokesperson stressed.
Patxi López, therefore, has concluded that this entire Feijóo investiture debate, doomed to failure from the beginning due to lack of parliamentary support, “has wasted all Spaniards' time.”
And regarding Feijóo's proposal to seal a great State pact for territorial cohesion, Patxi López has been blunt: "Territorial cohesion is not achieved by confronting territories." And even less so, he has settled, with “the absolute lack of respect” for the use of all co-official languages in Congress: “Dialogue begins by not insulting.”
