Esteban Gonzalez Ponsdeputy institutional secretary of the PP, has called Pere Aragonès “dictator“for having announced that he will not stay to listen to the rest of the regional presidents this Thursday in the Senate. The upper house, controlled by an absolute majority of the PP, has promoted a debate on the amnesty of the ‘procés’, the measure demanded by ERC and Together with Pedro Sánchez to support his investiture. The popular people want to denounce that such an initiative can end “the equality of Spaniards” and will deteriorate the Rule of Law.
“One is democrat listening rather than speaking. Dictators also talk, what dictators don’t do is listen. And Aragonès, in addition to speaking, should stay to listen to the reasons of others,” said Pons. The deputy secretary made these statements in a video that he recorded at the PP headquarters and that the party has sent canned to the editorial offices of the media, thus avoiding the possibility of him answering questions. Despite this circumstance, in his message Pons complains that Aragonès goes to the Senate to “place his message” and is going to leave without waiting for the interventions of the rest of regional leaders. None of the three presidents that the PSOE now has (Castilla-La Mancha and Navarra) will go to the debate.
According to Senate sources, the first to speak will be a representative of the Government (if any finally attend) and then the representatives of the autonomous communities. order of approval of its statutessomething that ‘benefits’ Aragonès since the one from Catalonia was the second after the one from the Basque Country.
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Pons, in any case, believes that it is a “success” that the ‘president’ has decided to go to the Senate to fulfill “his duty by defending his positions” and not like, he has said, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. “The representative of the Government’s position in the Senate is going to be Pere Aragonès and that as a citizen I’m ashamed, but it also humiliates me. We should not accept so naturally that the Government despises the Senate,” Pons continued.
Why isn’t Feijóo planning to go?
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, does not plan to go to the Upper House. Parliamentary sources and his team have ruled out this assistance for two main reasons: so that “do not appear to use the Senate in a partisan manner” and to prevent anyone from thinking that they are going to “supervise their regional presidents.” The dozen autonomous leaders that the PP has will be there after their overwhelming victory in the May elections.