“We are not going to make a sanitary cord to Vox. It is the third force of the country, its voters deserve respect and I am not willing to corner them.” This has presented the re -elected leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, his credentials to try to be president of the Government after the next elections, whether they are when they are. In the closing speech of the XXI National Congress of the PP, Feijóo has also said to be willing to negotiate with the independentistas, whom he has offered “clarity and surveillance” and pacts “within the law and the Constitution.” “Or Sánchez or I,” he said against a party delivered.
Feijóo was re -elected yesterday with 99.24% of the votes. This Sunday has closed the conclave with a speech in which he has presumed organic force. “Here is the whole PP. All together, all of us who have built the game,” he said at the start. But the National Congress has had a remarkable absence: that of Pablo Casado. His predecessor, walked by those who once auged him, has no seat in any act of the party since he dared to question the honorability of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
“The team has pleased me not to improvise,” he joked from the stage, flanked by great flags of Spain and the EU. But in the PP nobody wanted a leader’s skate to overshadow a congress to his greatest glory, meek, in which no one has raised any real internal battle.
The whole game contains the breath against surveys against which the leader has alerted at the end: “It will not be a walk through the field. If we get something clear in 2023 is that in front of an adversary who only knows the law of his own ambition and despair there is no neglect or excess of confidence. We do not trust us with the smile of the surveys. The only smile that is worth it is that of the polls.
For 45 minutes, Feijóo has broken down a speech in which he has chosen not to focus on the problems of the PSOE, but on his future government project. However, the PP leader’s scribes have made a vault of the historic “I accuse” of Émile Zola, who denounced the so -called ‘Affaire Dreyfus’, an unfair accusation against a French military in the nineteenth century. Zola pointed out the judicial falsehoods that threw themselves against the captain, attacked by reactionary economic, political and media forces.
“I accuse the president of the Government to deliberately break the coexistence among the Spaniards. He accuses him to block the political consultation to take advantage of the confrontation between Spaniards. Of leaving the centrality and submitting to minorities. To forget that Spain is a nation. To twist the Constitution and violate in its benefit the principle of legality that all force us.”
“He accuses him to chop the State, the borders, the common box, the external action, the immigration policy. Of colonizing the institutions to expand their power. And to promote inequality among citizens. The numbers do not lie: the Spain of 2025 is more unequal than that of 2018. It is true.” A fact that is not true: the risk of poverty has dropped from 20% for the first time since 2008.
Feijóo has assumed “three concrete commitments.” First, “a democratic regeneration plan that guarantees counterweights to power, institutions without political servants and with neutral leaders.” Second, “convene elections” if you present budgets and do not approve them. Third: “I will never separate the Spaniards with my finger from the Páncloa Palace.”
Shortly after he said that, if he governs, he will not meet with EH Bildu, a party to whom he will impose a “sanitary cord” while “do not apologize” for ETA’s crimes or help “solve the pending murders.”
Agree with Vox … and with together
“There are only two options” after the next elections, he said. “Or Sánchez or I, there is no more.” “And I want a solo government,” he added, to say that he will seek “alliances in Congress.”
With Bildu no, but with whom he will agree Feijóo to get to power is with Vox. It is not a novelty, since in 2023 those of Santiago Abascal were the only ones who supported their investiture, in addition to UPN and Canarian coalition. But the PP leader wanted to highlight this idea with several specific statements.
As he said, the “first sentence” of the hypothetical investiture speech that pronounces after the next elections “will be to declare that the wall between Spaniards no longer exists.” “The nightmare is over,” he added. The reference to the “wall” is not new. He has been using since 2023 to cite, erroneously, to Pedro Sánchez, who said that “the only effective wall against the policies of ultra -right in communities and municipalities has been the Government of Spain.”
In case there were doubts, Feijóo has risted: “We are not going to make a sanitary cord to Vox. It is the third force of the country, their voters deserve respect and I am not willing to corner them.”
The PP leader has warned that the same circumstance can occur as after 23J. “What happens if votes are missing?” He asked. “What has already happened a few years ago,” he said. “I’m not going to give what I don’t want or I can. I will not sign anything that goes against what we have approved here. Nothing is nothing. I feel,” he said.
But Feijóo has opened the door to agree with the independentistas, including together. These forces have offered “clarity and surveillance.” “I do not dedicate myself to deceive anyone, either to them,” he said. “Outside the law and the Constitution, nothing at all,” he said, to add that he will not “consent to more challenges to the country.”
Yesterday, the mayor of Badalona and president of the PP Congress, Xavier García Albiol, also defended the pacts with the independentists. “I see no problem reaching an agreement with Junts for a motion of censure,” he said in statements to the media. The use of the word “clarity” is not trivial. The norm that governs a referendum of independence in Canada is called precisely “law of clarity” and allowed to redirect the problems with Quebec. In 2023, Feijóo raised the pardon to Carles Puigdemont as part of an agreement for his investiture.
Feijóo has also said that he will open to agree with the PSOE. Of course, without Pedro Sánchez in front. “With this PSOE it is impossible to agree, with Sanchismo you can’t remember. I know from experience,” he said. A false statement, since Feijóo and Sánchez have agreed since the renewal of the CGPJ and the Constitutional Court to laws or even a constitutional reform. “That does not mean renouncing consensus in matters that require it,” he said. “The presidency of the government demands greatness and I will have it,” he said.
Hardness with migrants, defense in defense
Feijóo has also slightly outlined some of the actions that it will start if it reaches the government. The PP leader has recovered his classic “Democratic and Institutional Regeneration Plan” and has pledged to approve the PP Housing Plan in the First Council of Ministers, which basically consists of liberalizing soil, reducing controls and lowering taxes.
An idea that has extended to all citizens. “We are going to lower taxes,” he said generic, without specifying. He has also said that he will “increase family doctors”, despite recognizing that it is an autonomous competition, and to approve a National Water Pact.
But the greatest applause has taken it when talking about migrants and then security. A relationship that has not explained today, unlike what he did in campaign, although he has drawn a line that unites both phenomena.
Feijóo has said that it will “reduce illegal immigration”, something that, has sustained, “seems reasonable.” “How is it going to be reasonable to reduce the illegal?” It has been questioned, to add that it will not “simplify a complex problem.” The PP leader has recognized that Spain “needs” migrants. “Who comes to work, without problems.”
“You have to strengthen security,” he added below, “to walk quietly, calm, through the streets of Spain.” And “security for those who watch over it.” That is, for state security forces and bodies. “They deserve resources, recognition and authority. And they will have it,” he said.
Less clear has been in defense policy and, specifically, on military spending. Feijóo has tried not to comply with 5% of GDP in defense required by NATO and USA, although it has given clues that it is willing to fulfill it.
Before the PP, he did not want to say it, but he has excused he does not have the information. “I would like to tell you until the last figure of this issue,” he said. “But in three years, for the first time in Spanish democracy, the Government has not spoken with the main party of Spain, or defense policy or foreign policy.”
Of course, he said: “If I sign a paper, I fulfill it.” A reference to the recent NATO summit in which Sanchez refused to assume that 5%. In the PP they have said, at the same time, that Spain did commit and that the country was isolated from its allies. It was, in fact, what expressed the head of the European PP on Saturday, the German Manfred Weber, who lashed out against Sánchez to uncheck
Finally, Feijóo has announced “a language law so that all Spanish children can be educated in Spanish.”
Ayuso: “We will be at all times by your side” (and “Vigilantes”)
Before Feijóo, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has intervened as host of Congress. The Madrid president has dedicated the more than half an hour on stage to lash out with everything against Pedro Sánchez, as we usually.
The leader has verbalized the unit that the PP has theatricalized throughout the weekend: “We will be at all times by your side.” “What courage you have to have to put themselves at the forefront of this Morlaco at this time,” he said. “That’s why we are going to accompany you,” he said. Of course, he has warned him: “And we will be vigilant.”
“Thousands of people have met this weekend to tell the Spaniards that this terrible situation we are living comes to an end, that we are one of the nations without which the world would not be understood and that a Madrid of Galicia, with this huge team behind, will return Spain to the Spaniards, as happened in the transition.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
