The Popular Party has celebrated the Senate debate, between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez, as if it were a victory in the opposite field. The satisfaction spread yesterday throughout the match and different sources commented that Feijóo had managed to transmit a message of an outstretched hand to fight the crisis, against a “very little receptive” opponent, more dedicated to disqualification than to attending the proposals of the main opposition party.
In Feijóo’s team, the balance of this first face-to-face meeting with the President of the Government was clearly positive. In his opinion, Feijóo managed to impose himself both in form and substance, without incurring in disqualifications or verbal attacks, and again with his anti-crisis plan in hand as the main proposal.
The popular attended the debate after several weeks in which the insults from the PSOE to his party and its leader have intensified. Sánchez called the popular in Congress “mangantes”, the president of the Andalusian PSOE called Feijóo “fools”, and in between they have been able to hear all kinds of expletives dedicated to the president of the PP and his party in general.
“They are installed in the idiot pollismo, they do not leave there”, sources of the PP commented yesterday, in reference to that insult of the president of the Andalusian PSOE.
Despite this attitude that is being found in the Government and specifically in the PSOE, of contempt for the proposals that Feijóo raises, sources from Genoa assured yesterday that they have no intention of breaking the possible channels of communication with the Government and staging a relationship breakup. The PP, they underline, will continue with an open hand to reach possible state agreements.
As soon as the face-to-face ended yesterday afternoon in the Senate control session, the Government rushed to criticize Feijóo for mistakenly giving a risk premium much higher than the real one, and thus confusing it with interest rates . Vice President Calviño took the opportunity to point out Feijóo’s supposed lack of knowledge in this area and recommend that he change advisers.
But in Feijóo’s team they are not daunted. They downplayed that mistake, which they attributed to agency teletypes. And on the other hand they showed their tranquility: “If all they have to criticize is that, it is that we have done very well.”
In addition, in Genoa they are convinced that the economy is their strong point and the government’s criticism in this regard will not sink in. For this reason, they challenged the Government to debate how and when it wants with Feijóo and his economic team on this matter.
