Feijóo accuses Sánchez of “marketing” with Spanish money for the unique financing of Catalonia | Spain

Alberto Núñez Feijóo inaugurated his party's new political journey as if it were a rally before a general election. “We all have our place here and with this program we will govern (…) We will win the elections again and we will do so with enough advantages,” assured the PP leader from Cotobade, in Pontevedra, in front of some 2,000 people gathered at noon this Saturday. In a speech full of virulent attacks on the government, the opposition leader launched the offensive after the summer holidays by emphasizing the “separatist quota” – a reference to the Pact between PSC and ERC on a single financing. “Sánchez does not govern, he makes a deal with the money of the Spanish people. With the separatist quota, Sánchez also governs against his own people.” And it was revealed that La Moncloa does not respect freedom. “It is enough for them to ask us to be quiet. Freedom in our country! Equality in our country! Justice in our country! “Respect for institutions and respect for democratic results!” Feijóo said.

Three of the 11 regional presidents of the PP followed on site the intervention of their leader. The Galician and host, Alfonso Rueda; the Valencian Carlos Mazón and the one from Castile and León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. The participation is low since the barons are called to meet next Friday for a big summit in Madrid, where the Popular Party intends to bring together the opposition strategy against single funding promised to Catalonia. “We know that the strength of a political party lies in unity,” Feijóo urged his people. PP presidents will unite against investment agreement president to Salvador Illa, but for now they do not have a common model to reform the financing system. And they have not closed the door to bilateral negotiations with the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, on their own debt relief. “Galicia will not give up anything that belongs to it (…) What belongs to everyone must be shared by everyone. Every lie must be answered with an increasingly strong reaction,” Rueda predicted before Feijóo took the podium.

The one in Cotobade was the PP's first public intervention after the eye operation and the holidays, during a summer marked both by the unique funding granted to Catalonia and by the hardening of popular discourse on immigration issues. “This government is generating an unprecedented migration crisis,” Feijóo added after the government president's trip to three African countries. The popular accuse the central executive of losing control of the borders and, therefore, causing an increase in the number of migrants. It is also about encouraging the “call effect” due to the measures announced by Sánchez during his tour with alternative routes to irregular immigration.

Before the difficulties in obtaining the necessary support For the approval of next year's general budgets, Feijóo considers the central government “cornered by its partners”, which is why he ordered it to resign and call elections. “It will not do so because we must have a minimum of integrity and dignity”, however, affirmed the leader of the PP. “We do not know when the change will happen, but we can choose how. We will prepare for the return of decline. It seems that a lot of time has passed, but very little has happened”, added the popular president about last year's general elections, in which Feijóo won at the polls but without a sufficient majority to be able to take the oath. “We will win the elections again and we will do so with enough advantages to govern”, he assured on Saturday in Galicia, where the PP began the 2024 electoral cycle with an absolute majority. Although indirectly, Feijóo has also used the File opened against the president's wifeBegoña Gómez, as a throwing weapon. “It is easier to enter Moncloa if you get a professorship than if you win with an absolute majority in Galicia.” And he made a promise regarding the hypothetical scenario in which he wins the legislative elections and manages to be invested. “In Spain, the law will be respected, throughout the territory and in all circumstances. There is no democracy without the rule of law,” he said.