“We live in a grotesque Valleinclanesco inappropriate for 21st century Spain (…) There is no country that subjects its deputies to a checker with meetings outside Spain. There is no party that is at the disposal of a fugitive from justice to decide how long the legislature will last.” Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the PP, has charged against Pedro Sánchez’s concessions to the Catalan independence movement and has rejected the argument of the head of the Executive to defend the existence of verifiers in his meetings with Junts and ERC.
Sánchez asked the right this Monday to stop giving “chest blows” and remember that the Government of José María Aznar met with the terrorist group ETA in Switzerland [en 1999, en Zúrich]. According to Feijóo, this equation is falsebecause after those contacts made by close collaborators of Aznar “Herri Batasuna was illegalized, kale borroka was criminalized and ETA members went to prison.”
In an interview on the Cope network, the current president of the PP said that That episode “is exactly the opposite” of what Sánchez is doing now. “The logical thing is that, if you are negotiating with a person with a search and arrest warrant from the Supreme Court [en referencia a Carles Puigdemont], the first thing is that you do not negotiate and, in case he sits down, tell him: ‘I am going to do everything possible to have you appear before the Supreme Court of my country and, of course, I am not going to accept that you say Who is the President of the Government? And, at this moment, Sánchez is president, because he has appointed Puigdemont, not because he has won the elections.”
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The leader of the conservatives has once again stressed, as he already did in the investiture debate of the PSOE candidate, that Sánchez is head of the Executive after an operation of “political corruption.” Throughout the interview he also said that “the Government is based on an electoral lie, the ‘no’ to the amnesty” and on “unreason” and “amorality.”
Feijóo has also specifically charged against the checker chosen for the conversations between the PSOE and Junts, Francisco Galindo Vélez. The leader of the PP sees it as impossible that the fathers of the Constitution, which celebrates 45 years this Wednesday, could believe that in 2023 “a citizen of El Salvador, specialized in Latin American guerrillas” is in charge of saying “what the relationship should be like.” of the central government” with Catalonia. “They would say one thousand percent that that would not be possible,” he added.