The PP has chosen Valladolid to resume pre-campaign events after the break due to the Urda train accident. Valladolid, a city of which former minister Óscar Puente was mayor for eight years. For this reason, Alberto Núñez Feijóo wanted to make it clear from the first moment that the location of this Saturday's rally had been chosen a long time ago and that, in any case, if it were a question of protesting the accident in Urda, they would have stood in front of La Moncloa, because for the leader of the Popular Party the main culprit of the railway accident is President Pedro Sánchez and the "corruption" latent within the Ministry of Transport. Of course, Feijóo has focused a good part of his speech on the incident, which left 69 dead, and has criticized the fact that the leaders of the PSOE and Sánchez himself defend the gesture made by Puente when he resigned as political "dignity."
"They are about to canonize Mr. Puente in St. Peter's Basilica. The PSOE has already named him blessed, they are about to sanctify him. But what a lack of respect!" Feijóo ironically stated. "I expected from a party that is more than 100 years old a little respect for the truth, for ethics, for dignity," added the leader of the PP, ensuring that everything is part of the "story" and that from now on, with the return to the campaign, the socialists are going to try to "manipulate the people" under the discourse that not all politicians are the same. “Dignity is the best Spain that appears in the worst moments,” Feijóo stressed, praising the members of the Civil Guard, the National Police, firefighters and health workers involved in caring for the victims of the tragedy. Also to the residents of Urda who mobilized after the crash. “The PSOE thing is something else and they do not represent us.”
Feijóo spoke this Saturday for the first time after learning of the latest investigations by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard in the framework of the Koldo case. Investigations that the PP links to the problems in railway infrastructure. “[In] this Ministry of Transport, first there was corruption, then there was machismo, then there was incompetence and then arrogance,” Feijóo launched. "Now they tell us that we have to appoint a provisional minister," he continued in reference to the appointment of Carlos Corpus as head of the portfolio. For the popular ones there is no other way out than "the necessary change", according to their campaign slogan, from the Sánchez Government to that of Feijóo.
If he is sworn in after 29-N, the PP leader has promised that he will carry out a thorough audit of La Moncloa's accounts, among which that of the Ministry of Transportation stands out. “If the money from train security has ended up in the Socialist Party or in the pockets of one of its members, it will not be enough for them to leave,” Feijóo slipped. “They will have to respond to justice and, if they have stolen the money intended to protect the lives of Spaniards, they will have to leave power to go to jail,” he said.
The Government of orgies
Aside from the train accident, the PP candidate has also listed the Ceuta crisis, the lack of purchasing power of young people and the “insecurity” of the streets as key problems in Spain. “It is time to guarantee a better Spain for women. You are the ones who suffer the most from insecurity and lack of control. The women who build up this country deserve for the Government of orgies to leave," stated Feijóo, with the focus on the fight against immigration, a banner under which he fights with Vox. Hence, the PP will start the campaign next Thursday night with the posting of posters in Badalona - stronghold of the mayor and number one in Congress for Barcelona, Xavier García Albiol, and a symbol of the party's fight against illegal immigration and squatting.
The popular ones, with great territorial power, both regional and local, seek to support Feijóo's caravan with parallel acts by their regional barons. But also with the mobilization of the Provincial Councils, which have orders to tour the provinces without rest until the appointment at the polls. “Let no one think, despite everything, that it is done,” said the leader of the PP in Valladolid. "Let no one think that the votes are going to come alone. On the 29th we must go to vote, everyone must go and vote, those who at some point voted for the Socialist Party and today are ashamed of it must go, those who voted for us and now believe that by voting for others we are going to govern must go and vote," he concluded by calling for the concentration of the vote around the Popular Party.
