Alberto Núñez Feijóo arrived this Saturday at noon in Vigo to give his accounts before an enthusiastic public: the Socialist Party has “17 open summaries” in which “23 crimes” and “131 defendants” are included that, according to the Penal Code, could amount to “1,400 years in prison.” Thus, and with direct references to Pedro Sánchez (and his “egolatry”), José Luis Ábalos, Santos Cerdán or Leire Díez, have assured that this is the true “motivation” why the president of the “Government of corruption” has brought forward the elections to 29-N. And then, if he arrived at La Moncloa, he warned: "I am not going to pardon the corrupt. I will make sure they pay for everything." “Everything is going to be cleaned up... and we will start on the 29th by sweeping the polls,” the national leader of the Popular Party has promised, encouraging the acceleration of the electoral “machine” that is the Galician PP and that has already been “started up.”
After lamenting that “the workers are the ones who have to pay the bribe of the corrupt,” Núñez Feijóo has also referred to the Zapatero case. “We are still waiting for them to explain to us where the jewels came from,” he said, and demanded that the former socialist president “explain it to the judge” and “apologize to the Spanish people for the lessons he tried to give us and for the shame he puts us through.”
With the slogan “Spain, your effort will be worth it, finally!”, the PP's new video gave way to applause (and the mostly red flags raised high) from a venue packed with followers, at the Vigo Maritime Station. Feijóo has taken the stage in an event in which he has been surrounded by his candidates in Galicia and also by the former president of Mexico Felipe Calderón. The leader of the PP chose the largest city in Galicia for his pre-campaign event in the community, a safe setting despite the fact that the mayor's office, with the socialist Abel Caballero, has harshly resisted him for decades. Vigo is the city where Feijóo lived, and the estuary where he still spends his summers.
“Here you know me”, “I have my defects” he said, “perfection is reserved for egomaniacs”, he continued referring to Sánchez, to indicate that, in his opinion, “Spain is above everyone”. And now the country, he has said, “has lost confidence” because “the president's word is worthless.” “We are the only state party that exists at the moment,” he concluded, after ensuring that his “endorsement is Galicia”, “a place where things work” and that is demonstrated with the “five consecutive majorities of the PP” in the Xunta. Feijóo has attributed all the problems in transferred matters, health, educational, economic, social or housing that exist in the autonomous community to state policies. And he referred to the protest against Abascal in A Coruña, which ended in a police charge this week: “The violence and intolerance of the sectarians does not represent us.” "It is not an isolated and casual event. They seek to agitate streets that turn their backs on them," he assured his audience.
"Those with a single mind are not Galicia. Those who are not able to convince and then want to impose are not Galicia," the PP candidate added, "there are parties that publicly encourage it." It is “regrettable,” he said, to “govern Spain and announce a wall to isolate those who do not think like you.” And then he has linked a lot of questions: "Where does this push society? What do we want? Do we also want the riots in France? Do we really want to get used to violence being part of politics?" The “Sanchez wall,” according to Feijóo, is what “feeds extremists and destroys us as a country.”
“I want a country in which you can disagree with words but not with stones,” he concluded, a country where “an older person can safely leave their home and do not have to avoid any street or square” and in which “understanding between different people is possible.” This, he has claimed, referring again to one of the personal traits with which he defines Sánchez: “It is impossible when you always put egotism above your country.” "I come to guarantee security and that no one will see their rights curtailed. I guarantee that I will defend everyone's freedom," he promised, and "that is where the national reconstruction that we propose will begin: we must shake hands again."
The beginning of the end, according to what was stated this Saturday in Vigo by the popular party, is near: “every time there is a problem in Spain, the PP wins the elections, and it is going to win them cleanly,” Feijóo has predicted. “Galicia works and Spain has to function like Galicia,” he stressed, moving on to economic matters. "We spent the entire legislature without a budget. This man spent a billion euros from the Spanish and did not give an account to anyone. Here [in Galicia] budgets are made and they are fulfilled. They are looting the people without control!"
And all this, Feijóo has advanced to applause, will reverse it, he says, by lowering taxes compared to the “more than 100 increases in these legislatures.” Among other measures of “an effective and decent government”, the opposition leader has committed to “lowering VAT on basic foods” and “zero VAT on electricity as long as inflation lasts.” “Having a job has to mean being able to have a house,” he has defended, which is why, if he reaches the Government, his team will modify “the land law”, approve an anti-squatting law and make it easier to build.
The rally, in which the next candidate for the mayor of Vigo, Luisa Sánchez, and the president of the “Alberto is in his best moment to respond to people about what keeps him up at night,” Rueda defended, “let's step on the accelerator and give it our all more than ever” because “change in Madrid cannot be postponed.”
"We have a leader that we know and recognize," compared Feijóo's successor at the head of the autonomous government, "in front of that president," he said for Sánchez, "with everything we know and what we don't know... but he does, and that's why he has that tense face, more and more every day." “I am more eager than ever because the country is more eager than ever for change,” Feijóo responded in his speech, along the same lines. “Fraga, at 65 years old, said that he had been preparing all his life to be president of Galicia,” he reminded his followers, “I have been preparing all my life to be president of Spain.”
