Given Sánchez’s steps, he says that Feijóo will appeal directly to the conscience of leaders of “different sensitivities”
MADRID, 25 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, assured this Monday that in the investiture debate the leader of her party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will appeal to the conscience, not only of the PSOE, but of leaders of “different political sensitivities” to that they “rethink” about the roadmap that the socialist Pedro Sánchez intends, given that, as he has stressed, he did not appear in the elections including the amnesty in his program. In her opinion, there is no more ideological transfuguism than that.”
After Sánchez accused Feijóo of encouraging transfuguism, Gamarra highlighted that this is “something that the Socialist Party has introduced into this debate” and has stressed that “it is evidently not the policy practiced by the Popular Party.”
“I believe that the greatest exercise of transfugism that is taking place in our country at the moment is being carried out by Pedro Sánchez. And why do I say this? Because there is no greater transfugism than the ideological transfugism that is behind having presented you with a program electoral that does not include the amnesty and to be willing to agree on a Government assuming an amnesty,” he declared at a press conference at the PP headquarters.
Gamarra recalled that in the past Sánchez was sworn in as president “with less than 172 seats”, which are the ones that Feijóo now has secured, and added that now “more votes are not necessary” but that with “abstentions from different political formations it could be worth” so that the PP candidate was invested as president of the Government.
“This question in relation to what you think of transfugismo, I think should be asked of the Socialist Party,” Gamarra emphasized to remember that the ballot boxes “did not enable anyone” to articulate an amnesty or a self-determination referendum. Furthermore, he has alluded to the practices carried out by the PSOE, such as the loan of deputies to Junts so that it can form its own parliamentary group.
Gamarra has advanced that in his investiture speech Feijóo will “appeal directly to the conscience of the leaders of the different political sensitivities.” “Also those parties that should think about whether what they prefer is a firm and solid but open-minded and reliable Prime Minister to a submissive president who has already shown that he is capable of deceiving everyone all the time,” he elaborated.
In this sense, he has indicated that there is a “clear question” to ask leaders of some nationalist parties and that is “if they believe that Sánchez will be more trustworthy with them than he has been with his own party colleagues.”
“Tomorrow Alberto Núñez Feijóo will be the first candidate for the investiture who, being able to obtain the votes to be president, renounces obtaining them. I repeat, we know perfectly well what the demands are to obtain those votes, but the Popular Party prefers dignity than a Government with indignity”, he proclaimed, to emphasize that his party will defend the equality of all Spaniards as announced this Sunday at the protest in the Plaza de Felipe II.
In this sense, he stressed that the PP is not going to “fail” the Spaniards because it is a party that “keeps its word.” And the commitment publicly assumed by Feijóo, he continued, is to “always” guarantee equality among all Spaniards.
Gamarra has confirmed that Feijóo will present “economic, social and institutional” proposals in a speech that will be “consistent” with the electoral program with which he ran for the elections on July 23 and that will include the six State pacts that he has offered. these weeks to the parties and social agents with whom he has met before the investiture debate.
When asked if with this appeal to conscience the PP has hope that Feijóo’s investiture can go ahead, Gamarra has limited herself to reiterating that they are going to appeal to the conscience of the leaders of the political formations present in Congress “to that they reconsider and reflect.”
After describing the PP’s protest against the amnesty as a “success” because it “exceeded” the party’s forecasts, Gamarra highlighted that the amnesty “was not dreamed of by the Popular Party” but that “everyone is talking about it.” What’s more, he has stressed that not even the acting head of the Executive has denied it. “And he who remains silent grants,” he emphasized, later adding that “white and in a bottle.”
At this point, he insisted that the amnesty is not “something” that 48 million Spaniards have “imagined” but rather that it is “what everyone talks about and what everyone writes about” after the “demands” of Carles Puigdemont and the demonstrations of the ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras, alluding to the fact that it had already been agreed.
In this context, he has indicated that tomorrow in the plenary session of Congress it will be possible to “compare a country project designed for 48 million Spaniards” like the one Feijóo intends with that of Sánchez, in which the leader of the PP will make clear what ” “he is not willing to do to be president of Spain because it means defrauding Spain and handing Spain over.”
As to whether the PP plans to promote more mobilizations like the one this Sunday, Gamarra has stressed that the PP “is not going to remain silent” nor is it going to “resign” itself to what is happening. For this reason, he has said that the PP will join “any demonstration there may be” to defend the equality of Spaniards, such as the one on October 8 in Barcelona called by the Catalan Civil Society.
“The most important thing would be for the general secretary of the Socialist Party to take good note of what happened yesterday in Madrid because this mobilization is also a direct message to him,” he stated, adding that this mobilization was not supported only by voters of the Socialist Party. Popular Party but there were also voters from “left” parties.
