The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the regional presidents of the party will return to the streets this Sunday to protest against the amnesty law and the “cessions” of Pedro Sánchez’s Executive to the independentistas. The former president of the Government José María Aznar will also join this concentration, as ‘popular’ sources have informed Europa Press.
Under the motto ‘In defense of the equality of Spaniards’, Feijóo and his ‘barons’ seek to capitalize in the Plaza de España in Madrid – starting at 12:00 p.m. – on citizen “outrage” against a norm with which According to the PP, Sánchez has “bought” the Presidency of the Government by “changing votes due to impunity” to a “caste” of Catalan politicians.
Feijóo and his people have raised the tone against the Government after the last pact between PSOE and its partners through an amendment to that law – which will be approved on the 30th in the Plenary Session of Congress – that shields Tsunami and the CDR in the amnesty, excluding terrorism only when there are “serious violations” of human rights.
From ‘Génova’ they consider that the socialists “always manage to fall lower”, given that there is no good and bad terrorism but that there is terrorism and “amnesty cannot be granted in any case.” “Terrorism is neither covered up nor forgiven, it is investigated and condemned until the end,” Feijóo proclaimed a few days ago in tribute to Gregorio Ordóñez, PP councilor murdered by ETA on January 23, 1995.
This new protest by the ‘popular’ against the Government, which credits the distance that separates PSOE and PP In this legislature, it occurs when a negotiation window opens between the two with the mediation of the European Commission to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
Thus, the Commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, has summoned the Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, and the deputy secretary of Institutional Affairs of the PP, Esteban González Pons, to Brussels next Wednesday to try to unblock the renewal of the governing body of judgeswhose mandate has expired for more than five years.
Feijóo involves his territorial officials in his offensive
Feijóo starts 2024 by announcing an “all-out” legal, social and political offensive against the PSOE agreements with Together and the “extortion” to which, in his opinion, Pedro Sánchez subjects Spain. Aside from the legal and political path, the leader of the PP wants to keep the pulse of the street alive – despite the cold of January – after the good results that other similar mass protests gave him last autumn.
“On Sunday the 28th we are waiting for you in Madrid, on the streets again, to defend democracy, to continue being free and equal and to denounce the dismissal process that the PSOE and the independentists are carrying out,” Feijóo proclaimed last Monday in a meeting with mayors of the PP.
To keep the tension in the street has recruited its territorial officials, that these days have called for mobilization from their respective territories. Apart from the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who will act as host, Juanma Moreno (Andalusia), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (CyL), Jorge Azcón (Aragón), Marga Prohens (Balearic Islands), María Guardiola (Extremadura), have confirmed their attendance. Fernando López Miras (Murcia), Carlos Mazón (Valencian Community) and Gonzalo Capellán (La Rioja).
The presidents of the PP in the Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Navarra and Asturias, Javier de Andrés, Paco Núñez, Alejandro Fernández, Javier García and Álvaro Queipo, respectively, will also be in the Plaza de España on Sunday, as indicated. to Europa Press sources of trainingn. The ex-president José María Aznar will also join this protest in the Plaza de España.
Vox will not support the PP protest as in previous ones
Likewise, Feijóo has involved his mayors in the PP offensive against amnesty law, considering that they are the “best ambassadors” of the alternative to Sánchez’s “bad policy.” That is why this Saturday the 3,361 PP councilors representing 23.2 million Spaniards will sign a manifesto in which they emphasize that “public services and equality cannot be a bargaining chip to protect Sánchez’s Presidency.”
The ‘popular’ have managed to snatch the flag from the street of Vox, which has supported other PP protests. However, after the disagreements that have been shown in recent weeks with the leadership of the Popular Party, the general secretary of that party, Ignacio Garriga, advanced that Vox will not go to the Plaza de España this Sunday.
Last December, Vox announced the breaking of relations with the national PP of Feijóo, arguing the refusal of the ‘popular’ to put together a joint strategy against the Sánchez Government for their pacts with the independentists. In addition, those from Abascal used the agreement sealed between PP and PSOE for the distribution of parliamentary commissions.
The fourth demonstration of the PP against the amnesty
This is the fourth protest against the amnesty and Sánchez’s negotiations with the independentists organized by the PP. The first took place in Madrid’s Plaza de Felipe II on September 24.
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On November 12, the PP also called rallies against the amnesty in all the provincial capitals of Spain. And he went out into the street again on December 3 at the Temple of Debod in Madrida few days before the celebration of the anniversary of the Constitution.
The PP has supported other demonstrations against this law, such as the one organized by more than a hundred civil society organizations on November 18 in Madrid. The organizations estimated that it had been supported by almost a million people while the Government Delegation then targeted 170,000 attendees.