Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted this Thursday on calling for elections due to the corruption cases surrounding the Government and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, but he also warned that he will do “everything possible” to change the Government: “When I say everything, I mean everything.” Feijóo, in any case, avoided explicitly mentioning the motion of no confidence as a tool to change the Government, although he again appealed for the partners to take action.
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“Sánchez’s partners have to decide what weighs more, their political convenience or their democratic responsibility,” Feijóo stated at an event in Leganés (Community of Madrid). Feijóo, in fact, traveled to a city with around 200,000 inhabitants that has traditionally been socialist. However, since 2023, it has been governed by a PP mayor, Miguel Ángel Recuenco.
The leader of the PP, who mingled with the crowds in the streets of Leganés, focused his speech on denouncing the PSOE’s corruption and warning about the cost that continuing to support Sánchez could ultimately have for the partners. “The moment demands more than abstaining from the problem. We must work to solve it,” Feijóo said at an event held 24 hours after the police operation at the PSOE national headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid related to the Leire Díez case.
“The Civil Guard entered the Socialist Party headquarters in Ferraz again yesterday, and most Spaniards didn’t know if it was the Leire case, the Zapatero case, the masks case, the hydrocarbons case, or the public works case,” the PP leader joked. “We are living a true criminal carousel led by the Government,” he added.
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That same Thursday, the PNV, a Government partner, also strongly spoke out in favor of elections. “The general interest demands an electoral call. The president should ask himself if by refusing it he is not acting from a partisan and particular interest,” said the PNV leader, Aitor Esteban, who also ruled out supporting a motion of no confidence despite improved relations with the PP. The key factor keeping the PNV away from the motion of no confidence is that Vox would be indispensable.
Although Junts and PNV currently close the option of a motion of no confidence, Feijóo does not give up. “Spain needs a democratic and political reaction, and I repeat, so that Spaniards have the certainty that I will do everything possible to give Spain a new direction, a new space, and the change it is waiting for,” said the PP leader, who also warned that “the whole world is seeing Spain” as “a nest of organized international corruption.”
