The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, attacked the Government this Saturday for its management of diplomatic relations with Morocco and Algeria, and lamented that the European Union had to “fix” the “destroys” of the President of the Executive, Pedro Sanchez.
In a rally held in Córdoba, the Galician leader thus criticized the “unprecedented swerve” that Spain gave in foreign policy after turning its position regarding the conflict in Western Sahara, and reproached Sánchez for the “great result” of this turnaround having been the “greatest diplomatic crisis” with a “strategic country” such as Algeria.
Feijóo made these statements at a campaign event held at the Palacio de Congresos in the Andalusian city, located opposite the Mosque of Córdoba. The popular leader arrived at the rally to the sound of A Saia de Carolina, a song sung by four pipers, and attended a mass bath before devoting a few minutes to the crisis with Algeria.
“Sánchez told us that he was going to fix the problems with Morocco. And not only has he not fixed the problems with Morocco, but he has spoiled our relationship with Algeria, at the rate of putting at risk 2,000 million in exports of our exports and 4,800 million in the field of gas supply. And the European Union has had to come to fix our damage”, explained Feijóo, according to Servimedia.
“I am sorry that reality is uncomfortable for Sánchez, but I reiterate that a politician owes himself to the people and the least he can do is tell the truth,” continued the PP president before recalling that it is the Spaniards who “are going to pay the effects of President Sánchez’s mismanagement of foreign policy”. “If we pay, we have the right to claim who has caused the damage,” he stressed.
He then referred to the reproach that Sánchez made to him last Tuesday in the Senate during his first parliamentary ‘face to face’ -when the president said that the PP has only dedicated itself to “disturbing” the Government-, to indicate that the PSOE has become “the champion of the insult”.
In this sense, Feijóo wanted to underline that “there is no complete democratic regime without an opposition” and warned that saying that the opposition “gets in the way” is typical of “absolutist turns that should be forgotten.” He advanced that, “whoever gets in the way”, he will tell the “truth” because he has not embarked on national politics to “insult”.
“As long as we don’t get in the way of the truth, we are fulfilling our duty”, continued the leader of the popular, before sharing the “pride” that he claims to feel for his colleagues in the framework of the regional elections in Andalusia on the 19th of June. In this sense, he boasted that, while the rest of the political formations are dedicated to insulting the PP, they “only talk about Andalusia.”
“While others dedicate themselves to talking, the PP only talks about Andalusia. Where the others launch insults, the Andalusian PP launches proposals, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. And while the others have I don’t know how many candidates and they don’t I know how many collations, we have a president, a program and a balance. And that is useful politics, the one that changes things, the one that does not consist in disqualifying, but in proposing, in looking for problems, diagnosing them properly and seeking treatment right,” Feijóo said.
He celebrated that, after a week of campaigning, many things are beginning to become clear, among them, that Andalusia has in the PP candidate, Juanma Moreno, a “president who has a balance and a program”, compared to a “lot of parties ” who only dedicate themselves to “criticize” him.
He assured that he sees the socialists “very nervous” because “after 40 years they have seen that in three and a half years, including the management of the pandemic”, a PP government “has improved all social and economic indicators” and has shown that the Junta de Andalucía was not from the PSOE.
However, he asked his teammates for a “last effort” because “yet” they have not “scored a single goal”. “There are two ways to lose elections: one is to consider them won and the other is to consider them lost. We have to continue explaining our project and program,” concluded Feijóo, who once again asked those who “almost never voted for us” to vote. ” and “they know that Juanma is the best option”.
Along these same lines was the speech by the head of the PP list for Córdoba and the Andalusian Regional Minister for Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, who listed a series of data to praise the health management of the Government of Juanma Moreno and stated that the popular are “the guarantors of health”.
He also dedicated a series of compliments to the president of the PP and predicted that, “if a government of Juanma Moreno has been very good for Andalusia and Córdoba, a government of Feijóo will be very good for Spain, Andalusia and Córdoba”.
For his part, the leader of the PP of Córdoba, Adolfo Molina, dedicated a large part of his speech to praise Feijóo and asked his colleagues to make a “last effort” ahead of the last week of the electoral campaign. He thus urged his companions to “humbly request the vote” from the “many socialists disenchanted with sanchismo who have never voted for the PP and are willing to vote for Juanma.”
The meeting was introduced by the mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido, who asked his colleagues not to rely on the results of the latest polls in the face of the elections. “Not everything is done. Note that the PSOE has won a lot here,” said the popular provincial president before acknowledging that the Socialists are “a machine that knows very well what Andalusia is.”
In this context, he said that the Andalusians only have “two options”, to continue their commitment to the executive “of change” or “a reverse gear” led by the PSOE “with a hodgepodge of far-left silgas” that “are going to get worse” 37 years of socialist government.
