Feijóo predicts that "Sánchez faces his last Christmas in Moncloa"

MadridAlberto Núñez Feijóo considers the legislature in Spain over, although he also assumes it will last a few more months during which he expects the PSOE's situation to worsen due to ongoing judicial investigations and its parliamentary weakness. "Pedro Sánchez faces his last Christmas at Moncloa. He deserves nothing less than the greatest possible electoral punishment because he has been a disgrace to this country," he stated this Wednesday in a press conference reviewing the political year. Between now and the next Spanish elections, the PP leader has hoped to team up more often with Junts and Vox in Congress to further undermine the Spanish Prime Minister. "We have voted the same way on 170 occasions," he stressed. In this regard, the PP leader argued that "it has been a month since [Sánchez] ignored that he has been politically dismissed," referring to the initiative approved in the lower house, with the votes of PP, Junts, and Vox, which called for the socialist leader's resignation. "He has gone from governing in a minority to governing against the majority, he has nothing left to give," he sentenced.

However, although Feijóo refuses to completely rule out the possibility of a motion of no confidence, the PP leader continues to consider it not a real option due to the Junts' reluctance to take a further step in their relationship with the Popular Party. The PP leader warned that Sánchez's investiture allies have become "accomplices" of the corruption affecting the PSOE, a scenario that is not without electoral cost for them as well. The Popular Party leader reiterated that "Sánchez is the corrupting political nexus" in the judicial cases surrounding him and that, regardless of whether he knew or participated, he is the "political responsible party." "There is a cause-and-effect relationship between Sánchez's rise to power and corruption. The zero zone of corruption is at Moncloa. Mr. X is Sánchez himself and his lack of moral standards," he stated. The PSOE has denied this narrative and replied that what is deteriorating is Feijóo's "leadership," which has become tied to Vox.

In a statement responding to the Popular Party, the PSOE states that Feijóo "transmits anxiety to reach Moncloa at any cost. And that price has a name: Vox. PP and Vox are now the same." The leader of the Popular Party has justified the pacts with the far-right in Extremadura, Aragon, Castile and León, and Andalusia. "We are a party that accepts the result of the ballot boxes," he defended, arguing that the priority is to guarantee a change of political cycle and "stability." Feijóo defended that he himself will indeed need a "very solid" government because his future executive, which he takes for granted he will achieve, will be the one with "more pending tasks since Adolfo Suárez's." "For this, one must prepare politically and emotionally. I will not be distracted," he said.

The "reconstruction"

On the other hand, Feijóo is already focusing on the measures he will have to implement to "rebuild" Spain after the stage of Pedro Sánchez at the Moncloa Palace. One of the reforms he is studying affects the Civil Code. Feijóo proposed this Wednesday to modify it to "organize nationality". Within the framework of the doubts expressed by the Popular Party, Vox, and Junts regarding the granting of nationality through the so-called law of descendants, the popular leader has proposed, without going into detail, a legal change in this matter. "The passport must be earned," he stated. "We are looking at it in accordance with comparative law with our partners in the European Union," he added.