Madrid
05/09/2023 a las 09:51
CEST
The leader of the PP assures that the meeting with a “fugitive from justice” damages the image of Spain and its “democratic quality”
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, considers that the acting vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, should stop being part of the government. The conservative leader believes that Pedro Sánchez has to remove Diaz for his meeting, this Monday, with Carles Puigdemont in Brussels. The ‘ex-president’ of the Generalitat fled to Belgium in October 2017 to avoid being held accountable in court.
In an interview at Cope, Feijóo has assured that this meeting with a fugitive from justice damages the image of Spain and its “democratic quality”. The Galician politician considers that Sánchez should dismiss her in any case, because he either “knew and authorized” that trip to Brussels or he should “dismiss the vice president” for hiding that information from him.
Feijóo has made this request while the PP defends a meeting with representatives of Junts “in Congress” to explain to the pro-independence leaders the plans that the conservative party has for Spain. That meeting between Junts and the PP has not yet been dated, nor has Puigdemont confirmed that it could take place. This morning, the ‘ex-president’ will give a conference in Brussels where will specify your requirements.
He distribution of seats that the ballot boxes threw in the general elections in July have made the seven Junts deputies decisive for the investiture of Sánchez or Feijóo. The Galician politician has been the one who has received the Commissioned by King Felipe VI to try to be president and will be submitted to a debate and a subsequent vote on the 26th and 27th of this month. The numbers do not give. Right now he has 172 seats in favor and 178 against. He would be supported by the parliamentarians of the PP, Vox, the Canary Islands Coalition and the Union of the Navarro People.
Election repeat?
In the Cope, Feijóo has assured that Sánchez is going to give in to everything that Puigdemont asks of him to stay in power. Although he also admits that the socialist leader and acting president can call new elections if “they interest him” because what Puigdemont demands of him could mean the “permanent discredit of the entire legislature.” “Who decides who is president of the Government? Puigdemont. Who decides if elections are repeated? Puigdemont. In this situation, State pacts are needed to avoid this situation of democratic anomaly”, he continued. “I do not want to be president at any price. I want to be a dignified president and have a constitutional and constitutional investiture,” he stressed.
