In April, talk began ‘Feijoo effect’ but, five months later, the surveys indicate that the push does not stop. In July, Pedro Sánchez reactivated the PSOE, with new spokesmen whom he has asked not to let the Galician politician pass even one statement without answering, and now he wanted to be the one to launch the attack directly.
To find the body to body, the head of the Executive proposed a debate in the Senate, where Alberto Nunez Feijoo has a seat Sánchez proposed addressing the problem of the energy crisis and he focused on that issue during his main speech, which lasted an hour, although it was soon seen that he wanted the subject to be broader. He listened from his seat to the Galician politician (who spoke for 18 minutes, three more than the regulation stipulates) and returned to the rostrum with a very different tone from the presidential one that he had used in his initial intervention.
The chief executive accused his opponent of using the war and its consequences “to try to bring down the coalition government”
The objective, as sources from Moncloa later confirmed, was to dismantle Feijóo’s image as a good manager. Sánchez assured that in the months that he has been leader of the popular ones he has committed “chained, repeated, very serious errors”, so “bulky” that they are due to “accused insolvency or accused bad faith”. “I allow myself to recommend that you study a little more and surround yourself with good advisers,” she said.
Galicia’s public debt
The head of the Executive reminded him of passages from his time as president of Galicia, failures in his proposals, the “insults” he has dedicated to him (“autistic”, “authoritarian”, “egomaniacal”, “arrogant”, “dictator”, he recounted ) and assured that, if it is in the main office of Genoa, it is because that is how the businessmen have wanted it. As a finishing touch to damage the reputation of a good manager, he affirmed that Feijóo began to govern Galicia with a public debt of 3,900 million euros and left it this year with 11,300 million euros.
“Like Mr. Pablo Married to the pandemic, Mr Feijóo is using the war and its economic consequences to try to bring down the coalition government. But I’m telling you, you are going to fail as Mr. Casado failed, “he declared at another time, visibly hurt.
“Sánchez has made him a man”, PP senators and their advisers bragged afterwards in the corridors. “He has spent almost an hour talking only about Feijóo and has shown such a harsh tone… But he has even released ETA and our boss had not said anything!”, Commented a conservative parliamentarian.
The conservative leader reacts to the attacks and both show their lack of political and personal harmony
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After the harsh intervention of the President of the Government, Feijóo was able to speak again, but only for five minutes. Parliamentary regulations always prevail over the chief executive, who can speak when and as much as he wants, and this time it was also like that, although the presidency left him up to almost nine. In those few minutes, the leader of the PP began turning against the comment that he is in his position thanks to the businessmen and asked for respect from the militants who elected him.
Feijóo accused Sánchez of not wanting a “calm debate” and warned him that you will not “find him in it”. “The Spanish deserve a much better policy,” he continued. “His intervention is not typical of a president, to make opposition he just has to wait for the next elections,” the leader of the popular ended. Their applause was resounding.
In his closing turn with the leader of the PP, the president lowered the tone. According to Moncloa, he was all prepared: first, serene speech, “of country”; later, “to portray Feijóo”, to end the energy and a request for agreements. “I am still open to reaching agreements with the main opposition party. I tried it in the pandemic And now, with the war. Anyway. Act once and for all in good faith and in defense of the general interest and not the interest of a few powerful individuals. I hold out my hand to reach agreements. The first of them in defense of democracy and the Constitution. Renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and the Constitutional Court,” he said.
Despite that phrase, this Tuesday’s debate once again shows two very distant leaders with zero personal harmony. Both are campaigning. The President of the Government, second in the polls, wants to put the brakes on it so that it does not consolidate more, while Feijóo maintains his strategy of avoiding any error.
nerves at first
In his 15-minute speech in plenary he began nervous, hesitating He brought a main request: that the leader of the Socialists break his alliances with ERC and Bildu and reach State agreements with the PP. The leader of the popular focused his intervention in the field of national politics, the impact of inflation and bordered the war and European politics. He also celebrated that the Government “recopy” your proposals, after having accepted the reduction in VAT on electricity and gas that he proposed. He was referring to the fact that minutes before Sánchez had launched the only announcement of the day: that large industry will also be able to benefit from the cap on gas.
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When the debate passed to Mirella Cortés (ERC), the corridors and the cafeteria of the Senate were filled with deputies and advisers to comment on the clash between the two. It seemed that the parliamentary day was over, but it was not. Sánchez had worked hard with Feijóo, but he had fifteen more groups ahead of him with which to contrast opinions. Several spokesmen made him ugly that he had not negotiated aid and energy saving plans and many others asked him for a real general policy debate.
The President of the Government insisted on the idea that the “multiple uncertainties“that the war in Russia has caused cannot sink citizens into discouragement, because in that case it will cost even more to get out of the crisis. He assured that the saving measures will not be drastic and regretted that PP and Vox encourage “fear” The debate ended at 10:20 p.m., a long day, just like the electoral campaign that has opened in Spain.