The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, invoked “a domino effect” that begins in Extremadura, with the elections of December 21, and extends to all national politics in the next regional elections that will be held in Aragon, Castile and León and Andalusia starting next year. “Extremadura is the first political step desired by citizens“, declared the leader of the PP, asking for a vote for the popular candidate for re-election to the presidency of the Council, María Guardiola.
This is how Feijóo spoke during a press conference that took place in the town of Zahínos (Badajoz). “The best news a Spaniard can receive is that there are going to be elections to be able to express themselves, to get out of this situation. swamp of corruption, machismo and extortion“So I hope that this change will happen and that it will start in Extremadura,” he said. In this way, the popular president indicated that María Guardiola’s objective is to obtain more votes than the left-wing parties, given that an absolute majority is “very difficult”, and that thus “no one blocks governability by uniting their votes with these parties”, in reference to Vox.
“Extremadura arrives at the crossroads, it must decide and I hope and wish that it decides well”, warned Feijóo, while criticizing that the region had to “wait while others decide, and assume while others receive”, which is why he indicated that Extremadura “must be respected and must lead the way and show the way”. It is for this reason that the leader of the PP warned that Extremadurans have the opportunity to vote for “their own model, and not to get drunk on the national political model.”
In this sense, Feijóo considered that “what is sad” is that there are politicians who want to “import” this model for Extremadura. Concretely, the popular leader accused the PSOE of having requested the vote so that the Extremadurians “approving the president’s shenanigans and with an accused candidate“, in reference to the head of the region’s socialist list, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, prosecuted for the case investigating Pedro Sánchez’s brother. Likewise, Feijóo criticized Vox for appearing to “import the instability of national politics in Extremadura and continue to block governance“.
“Our electoral program is to preserve Extremadura from this overdose of conflict”, declared the president of the PP, specifying some of Guardiola’s intentions if he remains at the head of the Council, as lower taxes for businesses, the self-employed and familiesas well as incentives to attract investment for “transformative” projects. “Extremadura must encourage entrepreneurship and generational change in the business world, and must defend a real living space and not models,” Feijóo said.
Assessment of a “deteriorated” president
Asked about the progress report presented by the President of the Government this Monday at the Moncloa Palace, Feijóo declared that does not remember a balance with a president “as deteriorated as yesterday”“What is clear is that the evaluation has already been made, and it was made by the UCO, the UDEF, the courts and the PSOE colleagues who dared to denounce cases of harassment,” he criticized, while declaring that the “real” evaluation is “the one that has not spoken: that of the people, and it will have the first station in Extremadura.”
Regarding government partners, Feijóo said that “no one believes them anymore,” given that they “have been threatening for over a year and giving nothing.”“. In this way, the president of the PP accused the parliamentary groups that support the Executive of being “accomplices”, at the same time as he confessed that “he understands that they realize that supporting a dying government has electoral costs”.
“If they have at least a minimum of consistency, which facilitate the urgent convening of a plenary session of the Congress to be able to talk about all this tangle of referrals and arrests”, reproached the popular leader, and assured that “it will not be possible” for Sánchez to “escape” before February “without giving any explanation“. “He will give explanations, if the partners wish, immediately; and if they don’t want it too.
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