Alberto Núñez Feijóo believes that Pedro Sánchez’s words yesterday, opening the door to amnesty for the crimes of process and reducing the effectiveness of the judicial process, represent “a turning point in the democratic history of our country.” “If Justice should not have been used in criminal cases, as Sánchez says, we are making an amendment to the entire Rule of law“, he stressed in a press conference in Congress. “And no president or candidate can do that,” he said.
The President of the Government pointed out on Wednesday NY that “the political crisis never had to lead to justice.” This has angered Feijóo, who has acknowledged that he did not expect Sánchez to open the door to amnesty before his inauguration and, therefore, he is going to change his speech to Tuesday to charge against this circumstance. “It is nonsense to say that what the judges have done is not correct. There is no precedent.”
“Yesterday we saw a president openly talking about an amnesty in favor of all those who committed crimes against Spanish democracy,” said Feijóo, who announced that the PP will use “all means to avoid it.” “He is the same deputy who promised to put the escapees at the disposal of Justice and who said it was rebellion [lo que ocurrió en Cataluña en 2017] and that even aggravated the penalties. She has fooled us again. Repeated and aggravated electoral fraud has been committed, because he ran for office without the amnesty in his program,” explained the president of the PP. “It is an attack on Spanish democracy and Constitution“, has added.
For this reason, and given the evidence lincolniana that “you can never fool everyone all the time”, Feijóo believes that his investiture “has become essential”, especially “the speech” next Tuesday the 27th, in which he will charge against the hypothetical amnesty and propose a plan for Catalonia. It happens that he is missing four seats that are currently impossible to obtain, but he does not throw in the towel: “I do not consider the investiture lost. I am running because it is my duty and because the head of state has asked me to do so. There are four votes left.” and next week “we will know if we are going to have them.”
Within the conversations about the investiture that he is having with regional presidents, the leader of the PP plans to call Emiliano García-Page this afternoon. According to government sources Castilla la Manchathe main socialist baron will answer that he is not “an interlocutor for the investiture” and that he is willing to discuss any issue that has to do with the needs of his community, but he will not participate in PP strategies to divide the socialists.