The opening of the days of the Cercle d’Economia coincided with the announcement by Pedro Sánchez of the dissolution of the Cortes and the call for elections. He has marked and conditioned them.
while Wednesday Pedro Sanchez -who annulled their participation- was trying to raise the morale of the socialist deputies in Congress, a smiling Núñez Feijóo He entered the great room of the W hotel in Barcelona where an expectant audience awaited him who wanted to feel the person who may be the next president. That Feijóo was looking to seduce was clear in the first minute. He proclaimed his friendship with the recently disappeared Josep Piquethe PP politician who was most in tune with moderate Catalanism (he was president of the Cercle) and who, although signed by Aznarwas then ‘executed’ by Angel Acebes while Mariano Rajoy He played Pilate. Feijóo made it clear that his spiritual guide for Catalonia was Piqué. Spot.
Then he clinched his tuning will with three or four sentences. One, Spain is not only what happens in Madrid. Two, if Catalonia is not doing well, neither is Spain. Three, I have the advantage of knowing that Galician and Catalan are two Spanish languages and while I was president of Galicia I always used Galician. The fourth -he was interrupted with applause- the Catalans are the ones who pay the most taxes in Spain. And he showed his opposition to the “tax on the rich & rdquor; de Sánchez and his willingness to study the patrimony, although -he stressed- we have a deficit of 4.8%. It is not the same as Portugal, which is at 0.4%.
Feijóo said that he has the great advantage of knowing that Catalan and Galician are two Spanish languages and that as president of Galicia he always used that of the community. He added that the Catalans are the ones who pay the most taxes
Feijóo spoke as the softest and most conciliatory leader possible. He has refused to renew the General Council of the Judiciary, but he wants to govern respecting the institutions and overcoming the division into blocks. You know, the culprit is the other. He advocated a calm, serene change and said he was excited after the results – the PSOE has lost all but two of its autonomies – and confident of gathering a broad social majority on July 23. One summer day, it seems that they want people not to vote, although he summoned some Galicians on the 12th of the same month. And he stressed that for that majority Cataloniawhere he recalled that the PP has gone from 4.6% to 8.2% of the votes, will be key.
to the questions of Jaume Guardiola, the president of the Cercle, on the financing of Catalonia and economic policy opted for pragmatic and liberal responses. He criticized the large increase in public debt (logical), but perhaps he demonized it because the same thing has happened to the socioliberal Macron with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. But he fled from maximalism. It almost seemed that his model was the Portuguese socialist António Costa who “although he criticized his conservative predecessor a lot, later he changed few things & rdquor ;.
Feijóo said that he bets on a relaxed future, although – be careful – he affirmed that the credibility of a president is less harmed by being attacked than by not being believed. And the public was satisfied, although he shied away from getting into sticking points. Vox? It’s not your problemHe does not want sterile speculation. He ran for president of Galicia four times, they always told him that he would not have an absolute majority and he always did. Like Juanma Moreno Bonilla in Andalusia. And the same has happened in Madrid (I think he did not mention Isabel Díaz Ayuso). She wants – she said it without insisting, but she said it – a “sufficient majority & rdquor; that later allows to call the PSOE… to agree
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Ok, but a very favorable survey – that of ‘El Confidencial’ on Wednesday – gives him 144 seats, to 26 of the absolute majority. Could you do without Vox?
He would like to be seen as “a predictable guy & rdquor ;. But the unknown of credibility floated. A year ago, also at the Cercle, he was seductive and conciliatory, but then that thing happened that “there is a long way from saying to doing & rdquor ;. A non-Catalan businessman points me to a change. A year ago Feijóo was just a promise with little equipment recently landed from the provinces, while in the capital Ayuso was already a factual power. And the right-wing press and the judges who believe that Catalonia is Comanche territory were watching him. Now it is something else. There is Andalusia. And Borja Semper. But the main thing is that 28M twisted Sánchez’s arm. Today it has more strength, more capital of its ownand knows that it must expand it towards the center and moderate Catalanism.