“We must overcome the situation of general anger that exists in our country.” This is how the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, started a meeting this Wednesday in Torremocha (Cáceres), in which he harshly attacked the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, whom he accused of practicing “populism in the spirit , pure populism'. cheap and old populism” with the “tear letter” he made public yesterday after learning of the judicial summons to his wife, Begoña Gómez. Feijóo has asked to “respond” to the letter at the European elections on June 9.
Feijóo has asked to overcome “the anger” with a major “mobilization” that will “send a message” next Sunday to the Socialist leader, whose “attitude” he has described as “stubborn” on the part of the president of the government. “The worst thing is deception, it is arrogance, it is the attitude of believing that you can override everything and everyone,” he said in his speech. “That stubborn attitude, that attitude of head-on collision with reality,” he added.
The leader of the PP, who did not once mention his candidate on 9J or that of the PSOE, devoted a large part of his speech to Sánchez. “He thinks he will go unpunished because he has insulted everyone attacking the opposition, the judiciary and to the media,” he complained. “We are not going to remain silent. Let's speak loud and clear on Sunday by voting at the ballot box and responding the tearjerker letter”, he blurted.
The opposition leader did not directly call for Sánchez's resignation or the calling of a general election, as he did on May 26. during a demonstration in Madrid, although the legal deadline for this had not yet been met. And he did not want to compare the president with the Republican candidate in the American presidential elections, Donald Trump, as his spokesperson Borja Sémper has done. He also did not mention Venezuela or Nicolás Maduro, as he has repeatedly done in the past.
Feijóo has described Sánchez's stance as “populism.” The leader of the PP has spoken of 'the feeling and the situation of anger, of indignation, of thinking that we are all stupid, of thinking that it shows that those of us who have to explain are those of us who should do'. ask for it.” “And now it turns out that the judges, journalists and the opposition are responsible for what is happening in Spain,” he added. “This is populism in spirit, pure populism, it is the cheapest and oldest populism, inappropriate for a country like Spain,” he concluded.
Feijóo has attacked Moncloa's “film strategies”, assuring that “international conflicts” are being created to cover up the alleged cases of corruption affecting the president. “They will not be able to cover up the voice of millions of Spaniards,” he assured. “This is no longer enough,” he said, although he did not call for an early dissolution of the Cortes: “I don't know when there will be elections, no one knows.”
The leader of the PP, who has presented the elections as a plebiscite on Pedro Sánchez, has asked the PP to vote “so that Sunday is the beginning of the end of what Spain does not need and so that Sunday, above all, is “The beginning of the country that we deserve.”
Defense of nuclear energy, tobacco and against environmentalism
Feijóo held the meeting in a meadow in Cáceres on World Environment Day and took the opportunity to attack the PSOE candidate and still third vice-president, Teresa Ribera, whom he pointed out for her alleged “catastrophism” as minister of Ecological Transition.
“Neither the deniers nor the sectarians will give us any lessons” about ecology, he said. “We are neither against the catastrophism that criminalizes any activity nor against the use of the environment as an excuse to impose any ideological fundamentalism,” he insisted, adding that “the environment cannot be supported with the back on science, but that is not possible.” by insulting farmers and ranchers, who are the guardians of the environment.”
“What Spain needs is a minister who is interested in Spain and not in its permanent ideological fundamentalism,” he added about Teresa Ribera, without once mentioning his own candidate, Dolors Montserrat.
Immediately after saying that farmers and winners are the ones who take the most and best care of 'the field and the forest', Feijóo asked the EU to add another principle to the 'polluter pays' principle. “Whoever disinfects gets paid,” said the PP leader. “This way we will see how things balance out and appreciate decontamination,” he said. Feijóo explained that he wants “compensation for farmers and forest owners who have CO2 sinks.” “We are going to give back to those who take care of the environment instead of evangelizing them so that they are no longer the pantry of Spain and the pantry of Europe,” he noted.
Also the leader of the PP has defended nuclear energy, which is important in Extremadura because of the Almaraz power plant, also in Cáceres. Feijóo has said that “the energy policy” for the region will be decided in Brussels, something relevant because in the community “green energy is produced for four million people.”
The calculation includes all sources of energy production in Extremadura, including Almaraz.
More explicit was the regional president, María Guardiola, who started her speech with a closed defense of the bulls, and also devoted part of her speech to the attack on Ribera. “What could best have happened to the Spanish countryside, to the countryside of Extremadura, is that this lady, this minister, would go to Brussels and submit to the decisions and common sense of the rest of the countries that support nuclear energy , that yes. , they support and are committed to green energy, to Almaraz, to sustainability, to the development of our cities, to employment,” he said.
Guardiola has spoken of an “inexplicable attack” and “campaign” against nuclear energy. But he has also defended the “burning of stubble”, without giving more information, and assured that there is an “attack on the tobacco sector”, one of the most important crops in the region.