Feijóo's mysterious elephant at the Cercle d'Economia

BarcelonaThe leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did not come willing to approach the Spanish government in his speech to the audience of businessmen at the annual meeting of the Cercle d'Economia, which is celebrating its second day. Despite the request from the president of the Cercle, Teresa Garcia-Milà, to reduce disputes while awaiting judicial rulings and to prioritize consensus on essential issues, from housing to the defense of Europe's strategic autonomy, the popular president went his own way. Of course, without painting as bleak a picture as he did a year ago at this same meeting, with a speech that some businessmen have described as "flat".

Garcia-Milà's attempt, who plans to make the request also tomorrow, Wednesday, to the president of the Spanish government, who will close the meeting, has not prospered. Feijóo began his speech by referring to a mysterious "elephant in the room" – in indirect allusion to the possible motion of no confidence – which he promised to talk about so that it "would not grow", but in the end he did not do so in front of the audience. In any case, he compared Spain's situation to that of a company that does not file its accounts, which has its executives in court, etc. With this type of businessman, you certainly wouldn't negotiate, he warned the audience.

The president of the Cercle also asked the PP to at least negotiate the new financing model that Pedro Sánchez's executive has put on the table. There was not much success either. Feijóo admitted that the system needs to be updated, taking into account the regularization of immigrants, and that it is necessary to "talk", but he reproached that only Catalonia had been spoken with. And, to top it off, he longed for previous political eras, during which with groups like CiU "you could understand each other". An ancestor of the elephant?