Feijóo to the Catalans: "There's no need to change your passport, just your government. More than ever, Catalonia is Spain."

MadridIn Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Cristóbal Montoro case and the resignation of Noelia Núñez They have cracked the triumphalist speech he deployed at the PP congress at the beginning of the month. At the first regular meeting of the party's state executive committee after the renewal of positions, the leader of the party has claimed that, however, Pedro Sánchez, who is being pursued in the Santos Cerdán case, cannot be considered to have managed to draw the game with him. "As long as I am president of the Popular Party, there will be no possible comparison," he reiterated to his supporters, whom he asked to get into electoral mode and be prepared to carry out a "total clean-up" of "Sanchismo" once they reach the Moncloa Palace. In a fifteen-minute speech without questions, which was overlapped with the aim of the Spanish Prime Minister's press conference to review the courseFeijóo has declared the end of the PSOE's term in power and has warned Sánchez not to count on the PP when he loses his plurinational majority in Congress.

The Popular Party has already contributed to provoking a parliamentary defeat of the Spanish executive last week, in the last plenary session of this session, and Feijóo warned that if Podemos or Junts distance themselves again, the PP "will not take the bait." "This government is in no position to be helped by Spain's leading party. It can only be monitored in Parliament and will be defeated at the polls," asserted the PP leader, who insisted that he sees Sánchez's government as "unfit" to promote any type of policy, be it "energy," "regeneration," or "foreign policy." Feijóo disparaged the PSOE and Sumar coalition, calling it a government "of blackout," "of the Koldos," "of corruption," "of prostitution," and of those "angry in NATO," and asserted that he represents "the opposite extreme."

For this reason, he announced that, once they return from their summer break in September, the PP will present "a list of Sánchez-style laws to repeal and another to replace them." "So that the first day of the new government is also the last day of the dark period of Sanchismo," Feijóo proclaimed, ignoring the fact that the indictment of the former Minister of Finance or the setback caused by the resignation of one of his deputy secretaries for falsifying her CV has added some impetus. However, given the rise of Vox predicted by the polls due to the scandals of both the PP and the PSOE, Feijóo insisted on the strategy of toughening the discourse both with immigration as if putting the spotlight on new financing for Catalonia. "The State cannot disappear from Catalonia, and the first interested parties are the Catalans themselves," he emphasized.

Feijóo has sent a message directly "to the Catalans" denouncing "how the separatists operate." "There's no need to change passports, it's necessary to change governments. More than ever, Catalonia is Spain," he stated. The PP leader insisted that "Catalonia's problem is not Spain," but rather "corruption, employment, insecurity in the streets, or difficult access to housing, as in all of Spain." According to Feijóo, with a financing model that implies "impoverishing" the rest of the State, "the Catalans also lose." "Equality is not for sale," he argued, referring to Sánchez's pacts with the separatist movement, which he believes has sold out to "finance his stay in power."

The impact of the Montoro case

The popular president, who has seen his name linked to that of Montoro, has defended his record and insisted that Sánchez "cannot be compared" to him. "I don't accept his double standards regarding corruption. After thirty years managing public interests, after thirty years managing public money, I can say that it can be done without betraying either principles or citizens," he emphasized. However, Feijóo hasn't shaken off the shadow of the former Minister of Finance and maintains his team, Alberto Nadal, the Deputy Secretary of Economy who held a senior position in the Treasury under Montoro, and with the entry of Elvira Rodríguez into Congress to replace Núñez, who also served as Secretary of State for Budgets and Development.