NP leader admits failure to take office as prime minister

The President of the Spanish People’s Party (PP, right), Alberto Nunez Feijoo, acknowledged this Thursday that his inauguration as prime minister fell through within a month due to a lack of the necessary support in Parliament.

“Perhaps this investment process will not lead me to the presidency. [do Governo]but it will bring into national politics and the Congress of Deputies the equality of citizens, the dignity of our institutions and the priorities of families. And I think it’s worth it,” Nunes Feijoo said at the PP initiative in Madrid in front of an audience of activists and party leaders.

Feijoo has acknowledged on several occasions that the inauguration session scheduled in the Spanish Parliament for February 26 and 27 could fail, saying “it is true that despite winning” the July 23 elections, he did not have “all real possibilities”. opportunities for investment to bear fruit”.

The President of the NP reiterated that in Spain there is an “alternative to blackmail” by the Basque and Catalan separatists, referring to the agreements that made possible the creation of a left-wing government led by the Socialists in the last legislature, and that could be reissued again after the July 23 elections , and guaranteed that he would insist on this proposal, “even if it had to be rejected” when he assumed the office of prime minister.

Feijoo, who won the election but lacks the support of a majority in parliament to guarantee his inauguration as prime minister, proposed an agreement on Wednesday to PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez to run the party with the most votes, as has always been the case. in Spanish democracy over the past 45 years, and that will put an end to the influence of the Catalan and Basque supporters of independence.

The NP leader stated that he had proposed “six great state pacts” to Sánchez and that the socialists would make it possible to establish a popular government for a two-year legislature, time to put these agreements into effect.

The PSOE rejected this proposal, emphasizing that the PP presented in the elections on July 23 a project for the “abolition of sanchism”, that is, the policy of the last years of the current government led by Pedro Sanchez.

The Socialists also believed that there was “cynicism and hypocrisy” in Feijoo’s proposals and declarations, who insists that Spain should be governed by the list with the most votes, but after regional and local elections on 28 May, he made agreements with other parties to prevent PSOE led the executive branch of two autonomous regions and more than a hundred municipalities in which the Socialist Party won the test.

Although Feijo acknowledged the possibility of failure as prime minister today, he assured that he would continue his round of contacts with the parties that managed to be represented in parliament to try to garner support.

The PP received the most votes in the July 23 elections, and the King of Spain nominated Feijoo as a candidate for prime minister, whose position now has to be voted on by Parliament on September 26 and 27.

The PSOE has ensured that, despite being the second most voted party, it is able to form a government again using the votes of deputies from the “cunning device” of the left, far left, regionalist, nationalist and independent forces. , which has already managed to join the elections of the President of the Parliament on August 17.