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

MadridAlberto Núñez Feijóo considers the legislature in Spain over, although at the same time he assumes it will still drag on for a few more months, during which he hopes the PSOE's situation will worsen due to ongoing judicial investigations and their parliamentary weakness. "Pedro Sánchez faces his last Christmas in 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 expressed hope of aligning with Junts and Vox in Congress on more occasions to further weaken the Spanish Prime Minister. "We have voted the same way on 170 occasions," he emphasized. 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 can't do any more," he concluded.

However, although Feijóo refuses to completely rule out the possibility of a no-confidence vote, the PP leader continues to not consider it 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 link" 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. Ground zero for corruption is in Moncloa. Mr. X is Sánchez himself and his lack of moral standards," he stated. The PSOE has denied this narrative and retorted that what is deteriorating is Feijóo's "leadership," which has become tied to Vox.

In a statement responding to the Popular Party, the PSOE affirms that Feijóo "transmits anxiety to reach Moncloa at any cost. And that price has a name: Vox. PP and Vox are already the same." The leader of the Popular Party has justified the pacts with the far-right in Extremadura, Aragon, Castilla y León, and Andalusia. "We are a party that accepts the results 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 assumes 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 Pedro Sánchez's term at the Moncloa Palace. One of the reforms he is studying affects the civil code. Feijóo proposed this Wednesday to modify it to "order nationality". Within the framework of the doubts expressed by the Popular Party, as well as Vox and Junts, regarding the granting of nationality through the so-called "law of grandchildren", the popular leader 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.