The reunion of Pedro Sánchez with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Wednesday in the control session in Congress, has resulted in a tense struggle between the two to re-establish the framework of the political debate. The leader of the Popular Party has thrown in his face both the corruption scandals affecting the Executive and the problems in public services due to the railway crisis after the Adamuz accident: “The only thing that matches your corruption is your incompetence,” he reproached him. And the President of the Government, in turn, reproached him for the pact sealed by the PP and Vox in Extremadura, which in his opinion “kicks the Constitution, violating the principle of equality between citizens and the principle of non-discrimination,” in the face of the “national priority” defended by the far-right.
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“Do you really believe that Spaniards deserve to have the friends of the former Minister of Transport paid with our money?”, Feijóo asks Sánchez
“The only thing more shameful than your corruption is your lack of humanity,” Feijóo warned Sánchez. The opposition leader criticized the state of the highways, incidents in the Rodalíes service, the suspension of the AVE to Malaga, and the situation of the victims of the Adamuz accident, “to whom they have constantly lied.” “The AVE was a Spain brand, and they have squandered this prestige,” he warned. And he added to his criticisms references to the trial being held in the Supreme Court against former minister José Luis Ábalos. “Do you really believe you don’t owe anyone an apology? Do you really believe that Spaniards deserve to have the friends of the former Minister of Transport paid with our security money?” he asked.
Feijóo has assured that Sánchez is “implacable” in collecting taxes, but “insensitive” to the problems of the citizens. “That’s why he can’t go out on the street, and that’s why he goes to China more often than to Adamuz or Paiporta,” he warned.
But Sánchez again ironized about Feijóo’s intervention. “Do you write all that yourself or do others write it for you? You even struggle to read it, you have nothing to offer,” he criticized. And he went on the attack: “If you have to read something, it’s the agreement between the PP and the far-right in Extremadura,” he warned him, given the pact reached between the right-wing parties to re-invest María Guardiola as president of the Junta and Vox’s commitment to the principle of “national priority.”
“So many lessons they give on constitutionalism and the first thing they do is kick the Constitution, violating the principle of equality between citizens and the principle of non-discrimination,” he denounced, to applause from the socialist bench. And he also attacked Feijóo for the trial being held in the National Court for the Kitchen plot, which affects the previous leadership of the PP, and his rejection of the new extraordinary regularization of up to half a million immigrants. “You have financed yourselves illegally, and you want workers illegally,” he stressed.
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Nogueras reproaches Sánchez for “using Catalonia for propaganda,” and Illa “swallows everything as no Catalan president would ever have allowed”
But even tougher, next, was the dialectical clash that the President of the Government had with the spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, who reproached him for the summits of progressive leaders held last weekend in Barcelona. “He uses Catalonia as a stage for propaganda and at the same time hides and belittles Catalan institutions as had never been done before,” Nogueras warned. And Salvador Illa, she stated, “swallows everything as no Catalan president would ever have allowed.” Catalans, the JxCat spokesperson insisted, “pay for Spain’s party,” while criticizing that the Government “drowns the middle and working class in taxes,” while “public services are worse than ever.”
Nogueras also criticized the immigrant regularization process. She thus denounced that Sánchez “approves policies through the back door, such as mass regularization, when no other EU country is doing anything similar.” “He imposes a regularization, but you don’t pay for it. Spain invites, but the citizens of Catalonia pay and suffer, as always,” she lamented. And she added that the “icing on the cake” are “the corruption cases surrounding him.” “What democratic argument do you have left not to call elections?” she asked Sánchez.
“Migration is contributing to economic growth,” defends the President of the Government against JxCat’s criticisms of immigrant regularization
The head of the Executive has warned that he does not know what could bother Nogueras about Spain holding a summit with Brazil in Barcelona, or about progressive governments and forces meeting in the Catalan capital to try to confront the international “reactionary wave.” “If you don’t like it, I’m sorry. But also in Catalonia there are many left-wing voters and political organizations that claim their presence, their existence, and their internationalist commitment,” he argued.
“But what problem do you have with normalization and recognizing rights for those who live here and are contributing to our country’s economic growth?” Sánchez also asked Nogueras regarding immigrant regularization. “Migration is contributing to economic growth,” he defended. “Of course, what this Government is going to do is recognize rights, and it is going to make Catalonia and Spain better countries,” he affirmed. “Yes, better countries,” the president concluded.
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