Feijóo considers his investiture impossible before the PP leadership and will force votes on the amnesty in communities and city councils

2023-09-11 14:08:05

“I don’t have much hope, but it’s my obligation to try.” This is how Alberto Núñez Feijóo has recognized before the National Board of Directors of the PP the limited options that he has of being invested as president of the Government. It is the first time that Feijóo recognizes before the main body between congresses of his party, in which the barons and state representatives are present, his null options in the vote scheduled for the end of September. The PP already sees itself “in the opposition”, and will begin to wage a political battle against Pedro Sánchez’s alleged concessions to the independentists to achieve his support and be re-elected by Congress.

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This Monday, Feijóo brought together a Board of Directors with notable absences. The Andalusian president, Juan Manuel Moreno, who is attending the beginning of the school year in Jaén, has not attended; nor the Murcian, Fernando López Miras, who takes office after agreeing on a coalition government with the extreme right; the Extremaduran, María Guardiola; nor the Galician, Alfonso Rueda, who receives Queen Letizia on an official visit.

Nor has the leader of the PP of Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, attended, who in recent weeks has publicly shown his disagreement with his party’s approaches to Junts. Fernández has chosen to attend the celebration of the Diada.

And Catalonia has been the great absentee from Feijóo’s speech. After saying last week that there is a “territorial” problem in Spain that requires finding a “fit” for Catalonia, the leader of the PP has completely ignored this community in his speech, precisely on the day he celebrates his national holiday.

Feijóo has once again defended his investiture, despite being destined to fail. “Now it is more necessary so that what millions of Spaniards, the vast majority, think and want for our country is not silenced or ignored,” he said in an open speech.

The PP leader has said that he will try to represent in Congress not only the eight million Spaniards who voted for him, but also the “11 million” of the parties that support him (including his own) and the “hundreds of thousands of socialist voters and other parties” who theoretically “have been cornered for remembering that what was in the program is nothing that is being talked about to invest the loser and general secretary of the PSOE.”

Feijóo has justified his failure to find the necessary votes for Congress to appoint him president of the Government. “The Spanish did not vote for us to renounce our commitments in exchange for power,” he said. “To replace the concerns of families with the privileges of a political elite,” he added. “Not even to leave employment, pensions, the National Health System, water, education in the background and give priority to amnesty, the referendum or independence.”

Motions against amnesty

“There is no consent from the Spanish people for Spain to stop being a nation, we are not going to consent to it,” he said. And how is the PP going to avoid it?: “I propose using all democratic instruments: the strength of the first group of Congress, the absolute majority of the Senate, the autonomous governments, the municipal groups, the provincial councils and the judicial system.”

The PP will thus launch a battery of initiatives in city councils and regional parliaments, as well as in the Cortes Generales. Political declarations in the form of a motion with which he will seek to ensure that PSOE councilors and deputies have to vote in favor of the amnesty.

Feijóo has given few clues about the content of these motions: “We will carry out an initiative in favor of the equality of Spaniards or in favor of the privileges of the independentists.”

“The response to the separatist challenge is not a dialectical confrontation between Génova Street and Ferraz Street. The responsibility is collective. And all democratic bodies will also have to assume it. No politician, councilor, parliamentarian, is going to be able to hide his opinion,” he noted.

“I would rather pay the price of a ‘no’ for defending this, than a ‘yes’ for a misgovernment of inequality. “I prefer to look people in the eyes from the opposition rather than lower my head just to enter Moncloa,” he said.

“The path to entering Moncloa is tempting and easy, but not like this. We can say with great pride that it is worth choosing the path of freedom, especially when it is in danger; of dignity, when indignity threatens to overwhelm everything; “to choose the equality of all Spaniards, especially when someone is willing to curtail it for his personal interest,” he concluded.