Alberto Núñez Feijóo took advantage of the inauguration of a photographic exhibition dedicated to Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo on the occasion of the centenary of his birth – his first event with the media in two weeks – to accuse the central government of being “absent, inert and indifferent to the interests, security, integrity and sovereignty of the Spanish people” following the massive entry of immigrants into Ceuta.
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Accompanied by the mayor of Ribadeo, Daniel Vega, and by Pedro Calvo-Sotelo, son of the former president, the leader of the opposition contrasted from the town in Lugo the figure of the second head of the Executive of democracy with that of the current president, resorting to a clear contrast on the exercise of power. “Can you imagine President Calvo-Sotelo shooting videos about his favorite summer songs on a sofa in the Moncloa Palace while part of Spanish territory is being occupied?” he asked rhetorically, clearly alluding to the content Sánchez shared on his social networks while the entry of more than 70,000 migrants from Morocco was recorded at the end of July.
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In his diagnosis of the national situation, the Popular Party leader drew an insurmountable gap between the constituent spirit of the Transition, characterized in his view by “reconciliation and effort,” and a present he harshly defined as a “destituent moment.” He also attacked a Cabinet that, in his words, “acts against the nation and against the State, occupying, degrading and disarming them,” while warning of a “process of breaking the 1978 system” designed to replace the autonomous model with a “plurinationality of a confederal nature.”
The president of the PP delved into this total amendment denouncing that the Government is dedicated to “governing or misgoverning without Parliament, without budgets and abusing the Royal Decree Law,” thus executing a “constitutional mutation through the back door” that results in three immediate consequences: increased polarization, deterioration of institutions, and the breakdown of the system of legal guarantees.
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This political offensive has also extended to the Council of Ministers. Without explicitly naming the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, Feijóo censured the recent attacks launched from the Executive against the Head of State, calling the habit of pointing at the Crown an “unprecedented fact.” However, the leader of the opposition refused to fall into institutional pessimism and wanted to send a message of restraint, placing the Monarchy itself, the Judiciary, the Security Forces and Corps, and civil society as the pillars defending the country’s democratic architecture.
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“Spain is not doomed to continuous degradation and politics does not have to be that shameful spectacle we have witnessed for eight years,” he asserted in the final part of his speech, before appealing to the memory of the Transition as an incentive “not to resign” and demanding the return to the public scene of “dignity, respect, competence in management and well-understood seriousness.”
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