The PP now has more territorial power than ever: it presides over the governments of Andalusia, Madrid, Valencian Community, Castilla y León, Aragon, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Murcia, Extremadura, Cantabria, La Rioja and vice president of Canary Islands. 12 autonomous communities. And, in addition, it leads the councils of almost all the big cities: Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Malaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Cordoba, Valladolid o Alicante. Until now, the popular they have not made coordinated use of such an accumulation of power. First, because there were still investitures to close -the one in Murcia was the last- and, above all, because national governability has not yet been cleared up.
But Genoa wants to redouble the pressure against the PSOE in the coming days and is going to activate its organic power against the amnesty demanded by Carles Puigdemont, as this newspaper has learned. The popular baronies will mobilize to “portray” the PSOE in its relationship with Junts, according to sources both in Genoa and in some of the territories in which the PP governs.
what they want popular It is that the socialists get “wet” on the convenience or not of erasing the crimes committed by politicians during the years of the process. “Feijóo has already said no to Puigdemont’s proposal” for amnesty “and now it’s up to Sánchez and the PSOE,” they point out in the PP.
It has not yet been decided whether the dialectical escalation will also imply a parliamentary offensive: oral questions, written questions, motions, solemn declarations… “it remains to be seen,” they say in Genoa. In the baronies, consultations are committed to questioning the Socialists about whether they support the amnesty or the words of Felipe Gonzalez and other historical socialists. In fact, “the non-Sanchista estates of the PSOE” are communicating with the national leadership of the PP to convey their rejection of any pact that implies going through the ring of Puigdemont, according to sources in Genoa, who nevertheless refuse to provide specific names of those interlocutors.
If they have time, the PP barons will take the issue of amnesty to their parliaments before the investiture session on September 26 and 27. Anyway, in the end, the intention of the party with the most votes on 28-M and 23-J is to go out in force against the amnesty hypothesis, because it would mean, in the words of Feijóo, that Spain would stop acting as a full democracy: « I cannot accept that Spanish democracy is the same as a dictatorship and that therefore amnesty fits for the crimes committed that threaten democracy,” he said yesterday in Tenerife, at a press conference after meeting with the Canarian president and general secretary of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo.