—Even if he resists, his time is up and it will be the Spaniards’ turn again.
With this prediction Alberto Núñez Feijóo concluded his first speech at the Congress of Deputies this Wednesday during the appearance of Pedro Sánchez. During his speech, greeted by continuous applause from his people, the PP leader asked once again, as he has been doing for a few months after the inauguration of the chief executive, for early general elections. Feijóo focused on the corruption cases surrounding the PSOE and Sánchez’s entourage, but also on housing, which he promised to integrate into his first vice-presidency if he arrives in Moncloa, but without a single-issue ministry.
“The rank of vice-presidency matters more than a single ministry,” they point out in the cabinet of the PP leader. “Don’t start handing out ministries and vice presidencies like 23-J, which didn’t go well,” Vox leader Santiago Abascal later boasted.
Feijóo also announced a “historic tax cut for young people” in the real estate sector. Génova wants to reduce VAT from 10% to 4% for young people who buy both first-hand and second-hand homes, with installment payments such as a 10, 20 or 30-year mortgage. “Here the only one who made a useful proposal was me”, underlined the leader of the People’s Party in his response. Naturally this descent was already traced in Declaration of Asturias signed by his barons in Oviedo last January.
The PP leader intervened boasting of having studied at the public university of Santiago de Compostela and questioning the president of the government for having studied at the private university. “The only housing emergency he has worried about all this time is that of his brother and he does not have the majority to continue his failed housing policy,” he quipped, underlining David Sánchez’s accusation. “Here we are as if nothing had happened, as if it were the normal appearance of a normal government. Don’t count on the majority group of this House for this or for anything else. You don’t care whether to pass laws or not, budgets or not, for you everything is expendable, except one thing, power. A country does not stop suddenly, a country is consumed little by little,” Feijóo said after the break with Junts.
Feijóo dedicated the final part of his speech to putting his finger on the latest known audio of the former socialist militant Leire Díez. “Are you also the president of the sewer?” Feijóo asked Sánchez. “You can write that anti-corruption manual, you are the one who knows the most about corruption in Spain, you lost the elections and won the investitures with bizarre alliances”, continued the leader of the Popular Party, delving into the judicial cases that affect Sánchez’s entourage, for which he has once again asked for early elections. “When the day comes, and if necessary, Mr. Sánchez, I will not grant you amnesty. Neither to you nor to yours.”
The opposition leader also referred to Junts’ blockade. “Either the country is condemned to two years of paralysis and misgovernment or elections are called, the responsibility for calling elections is yours, win re-election at the polls and do it as soon as possible, what you offer is corruption and disloyalty,” he added. “If you neglect this too, you will have closed the circle of humiliations: lies, corruption and disloyalty,” concluded Feijóo. In his second speech he stated:
—Spain will have a decent president and after this session it needs one more than ever.
