Despite being visibly angry with Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has responded to the breakup of the ultras of its five joint governments by trying to to measure his words. Although the drastic decision of the far right leaves the regional presidents in the lurch just a year later, the leader of the PP has tried not to completely cut the bridges with the party of Santiago Abascal, since its barons and dozens of mayors still need your support to govern. . “There Vox and its crazy movement. “They have not measured, they have braked too hard and have gone off the rails,” reflected the leader of the PP during an appearance at the headquarters. of the party in Genoa Street, where he explained his decision to accept the minimum voluntary distribution of unaccompanied migrant children, despite the fact that Vox had threatened the PP to break its agreements if it did so. “At this point in my life, no one will blackmail me. They have chosen the wrong person,” defended Feijóo, who in his speech could not avoid a bitter reflection on how he sees things at the age of 62. “Spanish politics is full of shocks and immaturity,” he complained. However, the PP leader has asked Vox not to “hinder” governability in the autonomy zones affected by the breakup and has opted to maintain the pacts with the ultras in 140 municipal councils.
“We will continue working along the same path,” said the PP leader, before announcing his intention to continue reaching an agreement with Abascal’s party on the policies in those communities. “I hope and wish that we continue working on the things we can agree on, to facilitate the governance in the communities where change has been voted for. I understand that we have an obligation to do so. Both those of us who remain in government and those who leave it but have adopted an electoral programme that has been presented to the ballot box,” Feijóo reflected in reference to Vox. “My enemy is not Mr Abascal, my political opponent is not Abascal, my commitment is to change the government of Spain. “I am not going to deviate a millimeter from who the opponent of the PP is,” defended the PP leader, making it clear that the breakup of Vox does not change the strategy of the popular parties, who continue to gamble on agreeing with the ultras instead of the left.
The PP leader did not want to make it clear, as requested by the President of the Government, whether his party will support the reform of the immigration law so that the distribution of unaccompanied minors between communities is legally mandatory and not just voluntary, until now. “We need a state of emergency on immigration, funding for the communities for the minors they host, and involvement in direct management by the Spanish Government. We need an immigration policy. It is the least that can be asked of a country. This is our position on migration,” he stressed, leaving the question of the reform of the law unanswered.
Feijóo has also advocated maintaining the agreements with Vox in the 140 municipal councils where they govern together, although he has acknowledged that the decision is in line with Abascal's party. “They will have to explain the scope of their crazy decision. “We are going to continue to comply with the municipal agreements, we are going to guarantee stability in the municipal councils by complying with our program and the program agreed with Vox”, indicated the leader of the PP, who has acknowledged that this will not be easy to achieve from now on, neither in the municipal governments nor in the autonomous communities from which they have left. “I do not hide that they will have to face some additional difficulty, but I trust the regional presidents completely, whom I want to thank for their sense of state and government.”
The PP leader has criticized Vox for all its actions, but without making any strong criticism of the ultras or their leader, with a clear desire not to break all bridges. To the point that Feijóo politely asked Abascal to retract his words, indirectly accusing the PP of a very serious act, namely complicity in violations allegedly caused by unaccompanied foreign minors who go to house the communities it governs. “I do not accept that anyone says that my party is complicit in rape or machetes; that does not seem acceptable to me,” Feijóo responded with great caution. “My party is not complicit in rape or machetes. I understand the decisions and respect them, but these types of exaggerations are reprehensible and I would like them to be retracted.”
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