It sounded like an election speech, but it wasn’t. At least, for now. The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, returned to Galicia to play a role in opening the political course and did so by “committing to change in Spain” in the face of a “paralyzed” and “totally declining” government. “Resigning and summoning are the only verbs that should be conjugated by those who lie by system and only serve themselves…” to add, after a brief pause: “but they won’t do it.” Thus, without knowing how long it might last – or if it will ever end -, he promised that the political journey would be “very long” for the head of the Executive. Of course, in a moment of realism, he found consolation for his anxieties in adverbs: “We don’t know when the change will take place, but we can choose how.”
In front of about two thousand faithful, Feijóo painted an apocalyptic portrait of the “worst government in history”, which “without support, scandal after scandal”, looks the other way while “does not want its corruption cases to be examined”. An executive “humiliated by its partners, who corners those who did not vote for it and mocks those who did” and who seeks to “censor dissidents”, who divides “first and second class” citizens and who is “lukewarm” in the defense of democracy in the world.
“We are facing a redundant government, it is already too much and they and the majority of Spaniards know it.” However, as he said, they “cling” to their position “giving what does not belong to them to stay a few more months.” And if they do not call the polls, it is because “for that, you have to have a minimum of integrity and dignity” and that “was left at the gates of Moncloa from the first day of their transfer.”
A Moncloa that, according to the PP leader, “is easier to access if you sponsor a chair than if you win with an absolute majority in Galicia.” He said this by taking up the complaint of his successor in the Xunta and predecessor in the chair, Alfonso Rueda, who recalled that since he won the February elections – although he only took office a month later – he was waiting to be received by Sánchez. “But that will change: Galicia will find its doors again.”
Sanchez’s cell phone memory
Feijóo ended with a “defense of democracy” in Venezuela – several of those present waved flags of that country – demanding that the government recognize Edmundo González’s electoral victory and take that recognition to Brussels. “I don’t know if those suitcases were too heavy” – referring to the meeting at Barajas airport between Maduro’s vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, and the minister at the time, José Luis Ábalos – “or if Zapatero and the entire PSOE owe something to Chavismo, but not to the Spanish.” And, continuing along this line of argument, he added: “I don’t know if the memory of Sánchez’s cell phone weighs heavily on him; not on the Spanish.”
Back to Cerdedo-Cotobade
The PP returned to San Xusto after choosing last year again the Castelo de Soutomaior, the usual place for the start of the political journey until the socialist government of the Pontevedra Provincial Council banned it for eight years. “We were going to say that in the face of the PSOE’s vetoes, the people’s votes are useless,” said euphorically the current president of the provincial entity, Luis López. Luguésin a sheet that would be signed by Mariano Rajoy – “genius and figure”, according to Rueda -, who was listening to him sitting to Feijóo’s left.
More than two thousand people attended the opening of the popular political course in San Xusto carballeira, in the municipality of Pontevedra, Cerdedo-Cotobade. Among them, the presidents of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, and of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, “representing” the leaders of the 11 communities and two autonomous cities of popular color. All of them will meet on Friday with the party leadership to “renew their commitment” to Spain.
