Feijóo refutes Sánchez's assessment: "Today in Spain, everything that depends on the government is working worse."

MadridAlberto Núñez Feijóo closed the political year this Thursday with a press conference in which he refuted Pedro Sánchez's story from three days ago deploying an opposite and catastrophic one. "Today in Spain, everything that depends on the government is functioning worse," asserted the PP leader from his Popular Party headquarters in Madrid. Feijóo defended the PP's project, which, in his opinion, brings "hope" in the face of the scandals surrounding the PSOE. "There has never been such a gap between the PP's vocation for service and the rottenness of the PSOE," he emphasized, without mentioning the Cristóbal Montoro case. Feijóo avoided the controversy over the former Minister of Finance by attacking Sánchez without engaging in self-criticism regarding the judicial investigation affecting former officials of his party. Génova maintains the strategy of distancing itself due to the fact that it is a previous stage and closes ranks around the idea that no appointment made by the PP president is under investigation, unlike what is happening to the Socialist president.

The PP leader, on the other hand, has cited the investigation against Santos Cerdán or the prosecution of the Attorney General to argue that a head of the executive "harassed by corruption" cannot continue in office. Feijóo also again attacked the prostitution issue, mentioning the audio recordings between Koldo García and José Luis Ábalos in which they discuss women or the information about Sánchez's father-in-law's business dealings supposedly related to prostitution. According to the PP leader, recent months have shown that "Sanchismo is machismo": "It has become clear that the PSOE has abandoned women and, therefore, women are abandoning the PSOE." Feijóo also accused Sánchez of having shrunk in defending equality with pacts with the independence movement and reiterated that the Spanish executive "does not deserve the support" of the PP in Congress.

"This government has enough legislature, and Spain has enough of this government," he proclaimed. As he did on Monday at the state executive committee, Feijóo championed the PP as an alternative and reiterated that for the next academic year, he will present a list of "Sanchista laws" that the PP will repeal if they reach the Moncloa Palace. He announced that there will be the amnesty law, the housing law, and the democratic memory law. "We don't know when there will be elections, but our commitment is to be prepared for when they happen."

Feijóo did comment on the resignation of Noelia Núñez, the former vice-secretary of the PP who resigned from all her posts last week for falsifying her CV. The PP leader defended his party's actions because "when a politician falsifies their CV, this attitude must be corrected immediately." However, he argued, referring to the Spanish government's commissioner for the DANA (National University of Navarra), that it is even more serious to "falsify a degree." "We are no longer dealing with an ethical issue, but rather a criminal case," he emphasized.

Mazón and the DANA

The day after the meeting with victims of the DANAFeijóo reiterated his support for Mazón. The PP leader links the Valencian president's political future to the reconstruction effort, but refuses to set a timeframe for assessing whether his post-disaster management has been satisfactory enough to continue. Feijóo insisted on sharing the blame with the Spanish government and admitted, without holding the Valencian Government responsible, that in his opinion, "there are deaths that could have been avoided."