In the first face-to-face meeting between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez in the Senate, the difficulty of communication in Spain between the Government and the main opposition party was verified. Feijóo, in a moderate tone, has once again offered his anti-crisis plan to help families, but has met a Prime Minister who, with a harsh message full of disqualifications, has accused the PP of “disrupting, hindering, and hinder”, and has urged him to comply with the Constitution and renew the General Council of the Judiciary.
Feijóo has wanted to show a centrist profile, away from insults and any aggressive tone, something that is usual in the scuffle between the Government and the main opposition party.
The Galician politician has come with an outstretched hand and has insisted on his priority, the economy and anti-crisis measures to help the Spanish in the midst of escalating prices. “Forget the Feijóo effect and deal with the effect of inflation,” he has told Sánchez.
Pedro Sánchez has used a harsh and accusing tone against the new leader of the PP, despite being the first parliamentary debate between the two. The President of the Government has come to blurt out from his seat in the Upper House that “what you have done is hinder, hinder and hinder” and has said that he has been suffering “for a few years” from the first opposition party.
Sánchez has emphasized that since his investiture in January 2020 he has not reached any agreement with “the extreme right”, in reference to Vox, and “with you”. There have been several mentions of those of Santiago Abascal in his speech. The head of the Executive has alluded to the statements of the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo, disparaging a socialist attorney with a disability, to reproach Feijóo for the way in which he described them. “They are not surprising, as you said, they are aberrant” she has reproached him. At another time, he has asked the president of the PP not to talk about domestic violence, but about gender violence.
In addition, Sánchez has concluded his speech by accusing Feijóo of “continuing Casado’s habit of speaking ill of Spain abroad” and assuring that the popular bet, “with words and deeds, for social backwardness”.
It has been useless for Feijóo to point out that he does not identify with that policy based on disqualifications, insults, few proposals and less reflection. “I do not recognize myself in that policy,” he stressed.
For this reason, he has tried to show a totally different mood, waiting to see what Sánchez’s reaction was, whom he has urged not to catch up with minorities, but rather with a majority to fight the crisis.
Faced with the attacks by Sánchez, who has accused him of not complying with the Constitution and of not making a useful opposition for Spain, Feijóo has remarked that “this is a state opposition.” «The problem you have is that you do not have state partners. His optimism is enviable. But if he went out on the street, he would realize that families are quite upset with his triumphalism.
