During a particularly energetic appearance before the media this Tuesday, The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, apologized for the “unjustifiable error” that his party supported the “trick” of the government of Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE to carry out the legal reform which will bring dozens of ETA prisoners to the streets and which the popular leader described as “an outrage unworthy of ‘an enormous moral turpitude’. “He will be responsible for the abuses committed against ETA victims if he does not remedy them,” Feijóo told Sánchez.
A reform which, as we know, was supported not only by the PP, but also by all the parties in the parliamentary arc of Congress, including Vox, which did not pay attention to it. that the Government had introduced, during the transposition of a European directive, an additional provision to the law which made it possible to move forward the release of ETA members like those convicted of the murders of Miguel Ángel Blanco or Fernando Múgica.
Feijóo described the socialists’ parliamentary maneuver as a “an enormous moral turpitude” and an “indignity” and asked Sánchez to immediately withdraw this reform so that it cannot move forward. “If they do not do it, only the PSOE will be responsible for the history of this unworthy attack against the memory of the victims,” Feijóo said at an event in Guadalajara.
VIDEO | Feijóo asks for “forgiveness” for the “mistake” of supporting the provision that reduces the sentences of dozens of ETA prisoners
Rebuilding dignity
Feijóo expressly and repeatedly asked the government to withdraw the amendments introduced to the bill on the exchange of criminal records which will allow release 44 ETA prisoners ahead of schedule.
After asking for forgiveness from the Spaniards and, personally, from Association of Victims of Terrorismthe national leader of the PP insisted on calling on Sánchez to “rectify” this legal reform and to “return to common sense to restore dignity and “to be able to look people in the face everywhere in Spain”.
Feijóo announced that he had asked the general secretary of the PP this Tuesday, Cuca Gamarra, summon the Minister of Justice and the Presidency, Felix Bolanoswith the aim of preventing terrorists from taking advantage of it. “It is serious that the government is slipping into this indignity by maliciously taking advantage of the transposition of a European directive,” declared the leader of the PP, who insisted on the “serious error” committed by his party.
moral abyss
In this sense, Feijóo insisted on “sincerely apologizing for not having warned him” and clarified that “the PP wants to paralyze this indecency” and that if the PSOE and the government do not do so, “they will not be able to look” the Spaniards in the eyes. “Only the government can withdraw this text and we asked the PSOE this morning in the Senate to prevent the reduction of sentences and the release of the murderers,” explained the president of the Popular Party.
“It is obvious that no vote of the PP would have changed the reality that we have today in Congress, but it is obvious that we made a mistake and this must be rectified, and this is very clear. We admit it, it is an unjustifiable error and we will work to reduce the impacts of this error,” promised Feijóo.
However, the national leader of the PP rejected any comparison with Sánchez and the PSOE. “There is a moral abyss between an error in a parliamentary procedure and the deliberate desire to release ETA prisoners to keep Sánchez in government,” Feijóo said emphatically. “If they don’t fix the problem, we won’t forget this reform they sneaked in. Not everything is happening.”
“Hooded Pact”
Feijóo argued, in this regard, that if the Sanchist executive does not withdraw the amendment, the Senate will refuse it “by an absolute majority”so that “the only person responsible for this outrageous outrage will be the President of the Government, his parliamentary group and his partners”.
“We want to paralyze this indecency, the disguised pact between Bildu and the government,” insisted the opposition leader. appeal to the conscience of “all socialists”to whom he declared that they were “in time to avoid lowering their heads because they cannot look in the eyes” of the victims of terrorism. “The government is deeply wrong,” he lamented.
In this way, he insisted that the solution is to withdraw the amendment “and the problem is over”, but he warned that if this does not happen and the PSOE “maintains this indignity, it will be the solely responsible to history. “.
