Sánchez counterattacks Feijóo: "Be careful, because if you go in as a pope, you'll come out as a bruise."

MadridIn the midst of the controversy over the WhatsApp between Pedro Sánchez and the former Minister of Transport José Luis Ábalos who in the last four days has published The World, The Spanish president has counterattacked and questioned Alberto Núñez Feijóo's leadership in the PP. María Aznar with her "Go away" in Felipe González. "Go ahead, call elections. It will save the Spanish people the shame," he told the head of the State's executive.

The latest messages revealed by the aforementioned newspaper show how Sánchez and Ábalos discussed the rescue of the Air Europa company in September 2020. According to the version of the investigated businessman Víctor de Aldama, these contacts had occurred a few days after an executive of the airline, Javier Hidal Gómez. As usual, Sánchez has avoided giving explanations about the content of the WhatsApp and simply pointed out that leaking them is a crime, and took advantage of this to attack Feijóo. In fact, the Spanish government has already requested an investigation

The socialist leader has found in the PP congress called for July the perfect pretext. "There are no congresses that are called hastily to silence the rumours "of a broken leadership," Sánchez stressed. "He says he called the congress to have the party prepared for an early election. Wasn't the current leadership prepared? What have they done during these two years that they have been calling for elections? He says they must prepare an alternative worthy of Spain. What have you done these two years? What did you present yourself with in 2023? With nothing, just like in 2027. What they won't be able to change is the broken piece that you are," Sánchez insisted.

The PP focused the control session on the private conversations that have come to light in recent days and has tried to implicate Sánchez in the alleged corruption of the former minister. 1 and was aware of everything," Feijóo denounced. Later, the first vice president, María Jesús Montero, recalled that this Monday the Supreme Court indicated that there is no evidence of a crime against Ábalos regarding the rescue of Air Europa. Beyond the judicial process, which for now does not involve current members of the Spanish government or the PSOE, the PP has used the Attorney General's mobile phone, and what they should have deleted is Ábalos's. "He's afraid of him," Feijóo added.

Rufián calls for forcefulness

"Are you aware of the police, judicial, digital, and media offensive you're experiencing?" asked ERC spokesperson Gabriel Rufián, referring to Sánchez. The Republican spokesperson described the current situation as a "soft coup" and criticized the Spanish president for doing nothing when the "independence movement and Podemos" were suffering the same offensive. "Will they do nothing? What more must the right, the far right, and the Catalan right do to make them go on the offensive?" Rufián insisted to the socialist leader. The ERC spokesperson also criticized the content of Sánchez's messages with Ábalos: "I would love to see the WhatsApp between Feijóo and Mazón, especially when the latter was in El Ventorro." The head of the executive has responded by lowering the tone with a defense of the "vast majority of judges" and denying having opted for a "complicit silence" in the last seven years.

Ecological and the Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, on the occasion of the blackout of April 28, which will also give artillery to the opposition. And it has been learned this Wednesday that Red Eléctrica and the National Commission of Markets and Competition have already They warned two years ago of the risk of a blackout.