Feijóo promises to reopen the abortion debate and reform the euthanasia law

BarcelonaAlberto Núñez Feijóo begins to outline his conservative program for the Spanish elections on November 29th. The leader and candidate of the PP has stated on the Ser network that if he reaches the Moncloa he wants to reopen the debate on abortion and reform the euthanasia law, in an interview in which he has openly assumed the scenario of a government with Vox to remove Pedro Sánchez from power.

The popular candidate has said that he believes that if a 16-year-old girl wants to have an abortion, her parents must have "knowledge" of the decision and he has committed to putting this debate on the table. At the same time, however, he also spoke of "authorization": "Do you think a 16-year-old girl needs her parents' authorization to get a tattoo and does not need it to have an abortion?", he emphasized. Regarding euthanasia, and despite admitting that a dignified death is a concept he "agrees" with, he confirmed that if he reaches the Moncloa he will reform the law that regulates it to strengthen certain medical guarantees in the process.

All this, after opening the door without complexes to a government with Vox in order to reach the Moncloa. "I cannot rule out listening to what the Spanish people tell me. If they ask me to complete the majority with the third political force in my country, I am a democrat," he said. The popular candidate, who has said that he will try to govern even if he is not the most voted list, has assured that in a pact with the far-right there would be "red lines". At the same time, however, he referred to the aforementioned revisions of the abortion and euthanasia rules and also reaffirmed his commitment to repeal the democratic memory law, in line with the proposals of Santiago Abascal's party.

He also revealed that he would abolish the Ministry of Equality as such: "I will put it inside other ministries, I will not maintain 22 ministries [...] I will tell the minister of Equality to take charge of other things and not just Equality", he said. And he finished by answering the question of whether he considers himself a feminist: "How could I not be a feminist if I was raised, in my home, with many more women than men?", he said, reproducing one of the most repeated excuses from sexism. "How could I think that a woman has the same rights as a man? Or how could I not accept that there is still a wage gap between women and men?", he added later.

In parallel to the flirtation with the pacts of Vox in view of a future government in the State, the alliance with the ultras is making its way in the Senate. After confirming a few days ago the negotiations for the lists, Feijóo, who has implicitly asked Vox not to run in some provinces to maximize the results of the right-wing parties in the upper house, from where they could force a conservative majority in the Constitutional Court. "It will depend on the will of Vox if it wants to renounce running in provinces where it does not have a senator," he said. "It would be logical," he added, avoiding at all times confronting the extreme right. When he was asked about the Vox candidate for Tarragona, with a neo-Nazi past, for example, Feijóo said that he will not get into it since "everyone has the responsibility of who they bring on the lists".

He qualifies Milei's "language" and vindicates his "economic policy"

He also did not want to stir the pot regarding the visit of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, to Spain, which shook up the pre-campaign this week. The leader of the Popular Party admitted he does not share the insults he hurled at Sánchez and the left-wing parties during his events in Madrid, but he downplayed it. "I do not share Mr. Milei's language or manner, but it is a language that in Argentine politics is less striking than in Spanish politics," Feijóo qualified in an interview on Ser. Furthermore, he argued that the ultra-politician "is carrying out a much more sensible economic policy" than what Peronism did in Argentina. "Objectively and with statistics in hand, he has reduced poverty for millions of Argentines," he said.