At the beginning of the decisive week of negotiations between the PP and VOX in the Valencian Community, Alberto Nunez Viejo transferred the entire executive authority of his party to Melilla for its routine meeting on Monday. The meeting in the autonomous city had been planned for days, and indicated that the popular leader would resume his tough rhetoric against immigration, a flag that he had tried to extract from Santiago Abascal’s party in recent months. Which he now has to come to terms with in Valencia to invest in president After the resignation of Carlos Mazzone. In a text change, Figo on Monday toned down his message about foreigners and used Melilla as an example of “coexistence” between “cultures” and “religions.” In parallel, the Vox party, with its anti-immigration postulates, is pushing to lend its support to a candidate in Les Cortes.
During his visit to Melilla, Figo presented the “contract” with the autonomous city that Genoa will draw up if he arrives in La Moncloa after general elections scheduled for 2027. While announcing this commitment, the opposition leader praised Melilla, with a population of 90,000, as a model of integration. “You cannot condemn the political periphery, which is the territory of the nation where coexistence between cultures, between religions, and between languages is built every day,” the People’s Party leader said at an event with his supporters after the steering committee meeting. “You are the ideal laboratory to inspire policies of tolerance in Spain,” Figo added.
The intervention of the leader of the People’s Party followed that of the president of the autonomous city, Juan José Embroda, who is ruling with an absolute majority after regaining power in the last regional elections. Improda has also focused on the “integrationist” model represented by Melilla in comparison to Fox’s policies. The president of the autonomous city declared that “Melilla today is the focus of national attention, the city of peace and integration.” The popular leader added, in a veiled reference to the extremist formation: “Here we do not tolerate each other, we respect each other. Muslims, Hindus, Gypsies, everyone is respected. To be in Spain, you have to respect all religions. Those who use religions in a twisted way do not receive forgiveness from God or men. And against these, we are at the forefront.”
The visit to Melilla takes place one day after the conclusion of the Andalusian People’s Party congress, in which Figo insisted on requesting an advantageous vote for the Popular Party against Vox without explicitly mentioning it. He did so less than a month before the start of the electoral campaign in Extremadura, which would then be followed by Castile, León and Andalusia. The PP leader balances this way to defend himself against the Abascal formation at the same time as he needs the ultras in Valencia. Hence, he publicly toned down the direct clash with the head of the Vox Party.
“Sanchez violates the independence of the judiciary.”
During his speech, Figo also referred for the first time to the words of the head of government, Pedro Sánchez, who confirmed on Sunday in an interview with El Pais newspaper that the state prosecutor, Álvaro García Ortiz, is “innocent” of the charge of revealing the secrets for which he is being tried. The leader of the People’s Party accused the head of the executive branch of these statements, which involved “interfering in the work of the Supreme Court” and “violating the independence of the judiciary.” “This has not happened at any time during the fifty years of democracy,” Figo noted, noting that the fact that “the head of government intervened before the Supreme Court is a symptom of the lack of democratic quality and morality.” The legislature is considered “exhausted” once Junz announced that he would not support further government initiatives in Congress: “They are finished and have no choice but to fight in front of the judges and blow up the autonomous communities.”
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