He stressed that 2023 is a “transcendental” year in which Spain will decide whether to continue advancing or “stop dead and go back”
MADRID, 8 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, has accused the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of “trying to sow fear” with a speech of “predictions and prophecies that will not come true”, as the holding of an independence referendum in Catalonia, and has recommended him to carry out “an exercise in accepting reality”.
This was expressed this Sunday by the also secretary for Constitutional Reform and New Rights of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE in statements to the media in Ferraz, where he regretted that Feijóo “continuously portends all kinds of disasters.”
“Spain deserves a better opposition,” he asserted, also criticizing the fact that the PP wishes that “the economic and employment figures in Spain do not go well”, while the Government does reach positive aspects in this regard.
“I would recommend Mr. Feijóo an exercise in accepting reality, that he be aware that his desires are different but that the reality is that Spain grows at 5%, created half a million jobs in 2022 and has reduced inflation by five points in five months,” he added.
In this sense, Bolaños has warned that the PP “increasingly resembles Pierre Nodoyuna -a cartoon villain- wishing that things go wrong instead of helping with agreements, lending his shoulder to things in Spain do better”.
Likewise, it has censured that the ‘popular’ work to “block”, as in the case of the blockade of the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), where the PP has “politicized justice”, it has sentenced.
In this context, Bolaños has asserted that 2022 has been the year in which Feijóo “has disappointed everyone”, since he came to the PP to give it leadership but “he shows his shortcomings every day”: “He violates the Constitution and has not arrived to any agreement. He reached one (that of the renewal of the CGPJ), but he was not able to sign it because the most ultra elements of the Spanish right twisted his arm”.
Thus, he has questioned whether 2023 will be the year in which “those who rule on the right close the window” to Feijóo, as they did with Pablo Casado, after verifying that “he does not measure up”.
On the other hand, Bolaños has stressed that after a “magnificent” 2022 due to the effectiveness of the Government’s measures in the face of the crisis, Spain faces a “transcendental” 2023 in the political sphere due to the regional and municipal elections in May and general elections in “November or December”– who will decide whether the country continues to move forward or “stops dead and goes backwards” with a “right-wing and far-right” government.
“In 2023 it will be decided if we want a government that makes policies for the majority at the cost of a small effort by the powerful, with economic growth in Spain that is redistributed fairly, or we want a government with unfair policies”, he has deepened, to add that advances in understanding, dialogue, rights and freedoms are also at stake.
Specifically, he stressed that it will also be decided whether to return to the “unbearable tension” that Spain experienced in 2017 due to the independence process.
In this context, regarding the concentration called by the Consell per la República, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Òmnium Cultural for January 19, when the Spain-France summit is held in Barcelona, ??Bolaños has settled that “the process sovereignist has finished”.
“Fortunately, the Catalonia and Spain of 2023 are nothing like that of 2017. That tension that was experienced today is history. Today the future is dialogue and understanding, it is that we are capable of seeking what unites us and on that path move forward. For this reason, the sovereignist process has ended and whoever wants to be in the problem and not in the solution, he will see. But the Government of Spain or the PSOE do not say that it has ended, the pro-independence leaders say it,” he concluded .
