After coming to Barcelona on Friday to beg for Junts' votes through Fomento, Feijóo tried to shame Junts and PNV at yesterday's demonstration in Madrid for all the corruption of the PSOE that he says they continue to "swallow".
Yes, the fact that three of Sánchez's companions from his days of traveling in the infamous Peugeot have been imprisoned has turned the spotlight on the Spanish president, who has gone from resistance to sheer survival, clinging to power with the calendar ticking down to less than four weeks until the Christmas break. That's why Feijóo asks: if Rajoy was brought down by corruption, why not Sánchez?
The question seems well-posed, but he already knows his answer, which is a list of everything he swallows. The PP doesn't have the votes for a no-confidence motion today for the same reason it won't have them to govern alone tomorrow: Vox. Its dependence on the far right is enormous, as we just saw with the investiture of the new president of the Valencian Community, where, and this is no small matter, a PP president has just written one of the most infamous chapters in recent times—and the bar was set high.
And when we talk about dependence on the far right, let's not forget their party: the Attorney General's condemnation has warned everyone that Ayuso is untouchable, and it is Aznar who gives the orders and justifies, by family inheritance, the PP's failure to condemn the Francoist dictatorship.
Feijóo went to Madrid as a moderate. You talk to people who knew him during the thirteen years he was president of Galicia, and they describe him as an admirer of Pujol's style of government. Today, however, he's fighting against the official status of Catalan, Basque, and his native Galician in the EU. Sánchez's blog is a sieve. Feijóo's is a wall.
