Let’s see if like love they are going to break the duels Sanchez–Feijóo from using them so much. At the moment, they have starred in two, one on September 6 and another, this Tuesday. That one was hard, rocky, the leader of the PSOE went “for all”, which is a mantra that he uses a lot now. The latter has not been so harsh, irony prevailed, some humor and joke, especially in the chief executive, but this did not prevent a mutual attempt at ridicule. At least they saved the negotiation on the new General Council of the Judiciary, which is the agreement that is coming. At last.
It is not very clear that these types of debates get through to people. It does not seem that they create an inordinate attention, curiosity to know what country model should prevail in such an adverse context, with very high inflation although it is moderating a bit, almost at 9%; and threats of recession in Germany and of a conflictive autumn in France. But Sánchez decided at the end of the summer that the leader of the PP had to be dismantled in any way after the disaster of the Andalusian elections, and for this he proposed look for head-to-head duels. There are already two. More will come.
Traca on the second take
The President of the Government made an initial speech of one hour based on the management defenseand not only that of the crisis derived from the war in Ukraine, but also that which came from the pandemic.
He resorted to grandiloquent expressions to describe her. “Social commitment” and “maximum determination” there were two of them. He thus wanted to convey that while he is in Moncloa he will not stop mobilizing public resources to protect the middle classes and the working classes. It will not stop helping the social majority, in short, and for this reason, measures such as the tax on large incomes and the taxes on energy companies and banks. “They have a moral duty to return to society the solidarity received during the pandemic & rdquor ;, she said.
He barely criticized Feijóo, who was waiting for his 15-minute reply on the bench, with his economic guru, Juan Bravo, behind him, mumbling a lot of data. But he did slip that the PP leader’s way of opposing is characterized by “calculated ambiguity & rdquor; despite the fact that he “will always be in favor of pruning the Welfare State & rdquor ;.
Here was the key to the vault of his strategy to drive the leader of the PP crazy. The repertoire was broader, and he displayed it in the second intervention. In fact, he began it like this: “Thank you for all the proposals that you have shared with this House in your presentation; He clearly does not think about the next elections, but about the next generations, and I thank him & rdquor ;.
It’s irony. The president, in fact, He has pulled the mordacity at various times of his second and third interventions. See:
“You will recognize that you are an expert person that the Government of Spain will have done something in the purchase of vaccines & mldr; & rdquor ;.
“You do not define yourself, it is your opposition strategy, you do not tell us some things clearly, use hoaxeslike Pablo Casado in the past, and he lacks proposals & rdquor ;.
“It has no answer or alternative to the reality that Spaniards live, except for disqualifications. I don’t know why he criticizes me (…) He comes with great manager lessons public & rdquor ;.
“You who sum up so much experience and so much knowing how to do things well, do not use hoaxes. I could give Casado the benefit of the doubt, but you, who are sooo experienced and he has made so many budgets, he forgets to say that he tripled the public debt of Galicia & rdquor ;.
“I know that he can give me lessons on many things because he has a lot of experience & rdquor ;.
Apart from ridiculing Feijóo for an experience that is not such, in the opinion of the President of the Government and his team, the Secretary General of the PSOE has tried to extract from the leader of the PP a series of positions on matters that he is proud of, such as the exception Iberian, the ERTE, the increase in the SMI, the revaluation of pensions according to the CPI or the tax on the main energy and financial entities.
There has been no economic field in which Sánchez has not tried to confront Feijóo’s ideology. In only one has it been avoided, that of the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. Government and PP, after the resignation of Lesmes, are close to the pact. “It seems that we can reach an agreement in the General Council of the Judiciary and in the Constitutional Court. For the sake of preserving that space, it is important that we put it aside.” Feijóo has taken the glove.
Remove Budgets
Not a single mention of the CGPJ of the leader of the PP, who dedicated most of his speech to trying to dismantle Sánchez’s management. With a structure similar to the one used by the President of the Government in the September debate, Feijóo was criticizing all the benefits that the Chief Executive brought out in his initial speech. He even blurted out the phrase with which Sánchez attacked him so harshly in his last parliamentary clash: “Is it insolvency or bad faith?”. The conservative bench burst into applause and even the odd laugh was heard.
“I also congratulate the entire government, starting with the three women -referring to the three vice presidents-, above all, the only one that you cannot dismiss,” Feijóo started ironically with the congratulations that Sánchez dedicated to his Cabinet. And then came the reproaches.
The worst part was for the General State Budgets, to which he changed the name to call them the “general State mortgages for 2023”. The conservative leader did not give the slightest credit to the public accounts project approved by the coalition government a few weeks ago. “Fictitious”, lacking rigor and “incredible” They were just some of the disqualifiers he used. All this to end up requiring the Executive to withdraw the Budgets.
And it was just the public accounts that Feijóo took advantage of to warn Sánchez that his time at Moncloa is running out. The leader of the PP made it clear that he sees himself presiding over Spain, in addition to his party, after the general elections next year. Even so, pulling irony again, he was convinced that Sánchez cannot be “worried” given the results that he produced andhe CIS October Barometer which places the PSOE in first position and with a record number.
Nor did he let Sánchez take pride in his health management during the pandemic or the work being done to expand the country’s renewable energy capabilities. They are both competences of the autonomous communities, Feijóo reproached him: “A little respect, Your Honor, for the Territorial Chamber and for the autonomous communities.”
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And immediately afterwards he joked that listening to the chief executive and the positive vision he had of the Spanish economy gave the sensation of listening to the presidents of Denmark, France or Germany. “Land down, Mr. President, we live in a very delicate moment. Nothing says that it will improve in the short term,” he insisted.
Moncloa sources do not rule out that there are more duels. To the president the format fits like a glove, because he speaks without a time limit and Feijóo has to dispatch everything in 20 minutes. So the third face-to-face may be held in November, despite the fact that in politics, as in love, strategies, from using them so much, also break.