He acknowledges that the PP was “in cardiac arrest” after Casado’s resignation but “today it is a healthy body”
MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has criticized that the Trans Law “endangers” the achievements of the feminist struggle, because “it trivializes being a woman or a man” and because it makes it easier for “a minor to undergo a surgical intervention in most of the times irreversible without being properly advised”.
This is how she responded in an interview in Esquire, collected by Europa Press, in which she defended that this law does not serve the historical cause of feminism, so “feminists are right”. “Furthermore, it is a law imposed by a minority against the majority,” she added.
In other social issues, the popular leader has stated that abortion “is a very difficult decision”, in which “we have to respect the people who take it, but we also have to help those who have decided not to follow that path “.
Regarding LGTBI rights or gender identity, he has stated that the most honest position on these issues is “from respect”.
“There are different ways of loving, of living together, of creating a family. Only from respect is a large family, a single parent or single by conviction understood equally. But imposing things, labeling people, belittling what they think, decide what is right and what is wrong…”, he explained.
Feijóo has recognized that the formation was “in cardiac arrest and the patient had to be revived” after the resignation of former president Pablo Casado at the head of the party, but he has claimed that “today it is a healthy body, with expectations and hopeful”.
In the interview he acknowledges that the commitment to chair the party has weighed: “Yes, there is no doubt that it has weighed a lot to think that if the PP has a serious problem I am not going to assume responsibility for not having done anything.”
Even so, he has defended that the PP is a party founded “forty years ago, with the Spanish Constitution” and was born “to defend it, to apply it and to feel proud of it”. Therefore, he has highlighted that “the PP has been many things before Feijóo and it will be after Feijóo”.
From his position in Galicia, the popular leader has highlighted his mandate at the head of the autonomous community: “There he had been president for 13 years and had won four elections with increasingly better results.” “Now I have gone from that to being head of the opposition and pretending that they vote for me,” he added.
On a personal level, Feijóo has recognized that the change from the family point of view has been “hard”, especially for his son. “We had to put a 5-year-old boy in a car on a Saturday to bring him to Madrid and start a new school on a Monday. He left everything behind at his age: his city, his friends, the square where he played… It affected me to see it”, explained the president of the PP.
However, he has assured that he is “convinced” that it is “an opportunity” and feels “sure” that his son “will understand it one day”, while “his mother, Eva, was already well aware of the change, she was already working in Madrid and he knows well what this is”.
When asked about a virtue of the current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, Feijóo stated that it would be “going against all his colleagues to achieve his own goals”, to which he assured that he “would be incapable”.
In addition, he has recognized that thanks to that “virtue” he has become general secretary of the PSOE and president of the Government. “From the point of view of the results, it is a great virtue. If your fundamental objective in life is to be president of the Government, at any cost… I recognize that I do not have that virtue”, he defended.
Thus, Feijóo has confessed that “I would not be able to have caused three general elections in my country and have abandoned all those who accompanied me along the way”, but has recognized “the success of that opposition councilor from the Madrid City Council who presents himself to secretary general of the PSOE”.
Likewise, the president of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has highlighted that she is a person who “is very clear about things and says them with great self-confidence and has been able to connect with the vast majority of the citizens of Madrid”.
Of the former president of the PP Pablo Casado has highlighted that he is a great parliamentarian and a great speaker. “In that he is better than me”, he has recognized.
The president of the Popular Party has answered some questions far from his political position and that try to see how he is in his day to day life and what his tastes are.
Due to his political position, Feijóo has assured that he has to travel two or three days a week and work three out of four weekends, for which he has abandoned some activities, including the cinema.
Regarding music, he has clarified that he has listened to “all kinds” in his life, he has highlighted his preference for Leonard Cohen and has stated that it is “very much from Sabina, from the Who, Supertramp, Creedence and even C. Tangana”.
As for the drink, he has stated that water is the “perfect drink”, but a toasted beer “has no contraindication”, together “with a wine for dinner at home with friends”.
