Feijóo promises to appoint a Minister of Transport with "traceability" and "competence in the matter" if he reaches La Moncloa

At least a dozen times this Monday Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke about "management" in the interview he gave to Telecinco. It is the characteristic that the leader of the PP wants to highlight on the way to the polls, displaying it as his letter of introduction and contrasting it with a Government that, in his opinion, "has abandoned the principle of basic quality in the operation of public services." And that managerial quality that Feijóo wants to praise is not only applied to himself, but he promises that he will be the pattern that governs his appointments if he reaches La Moncloa.

Starting with the ministers, including the Minister of Transport. This Monday, with the country still shocked by the train accident in Urda (Toledo), Feijóo has questioned the appointments that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made for this position during his mandates. For the popular leader, it is the "Ministry of State for security", and therefore its positions require maximum "rigor" and "enormous technical qualifications." "How is it possible that [...] [José Luis] Ábalos and [Óscar] Puente have managed our country's infrastructure for eight years?" Feijóo asked.

"The more statements he makes, the more uneasy it makes us," said the popular leader about Puente, committing not to appoint a "minister specializing in social networks." And regarding Ábalos, today in prison convicted of corruption, Feijóo has lengthened the shadow of the problem: "The additional problem is not only that he is in jail, it is that there are five or six senior Public Works officials who are in a summary for corruption in public works."

Faced with this scenario, Feijóo has committed that, "in the appointments that he signs" if he manages to govern the country, he will bet on a profile with "traceability, as honest" and "that has competence in the matter in which he is going to execute." "And that he has experience and rigor in the management of public affairs," concluded the leader, who wanted to praise that, during his time at the head of the Xunta de Galicia, he appointed two Ministers of Infrastructure and Transport, "two civil engineers." "I come to offer management, rigor and experience," stated Feijóo.

"I think there will be a better result at the polls"

Despite his commitments regarding future appointments, the popular president has avoided taking for granted the comfortable majority that, according to most polls, the right would obtain at the polls. "There are 27 days left and in the end there is a percentage of the vote that is decided in the last week," he said, arguing that "there is a lot of campaign left."

Of course, Feijóo has not avoided looking with optimism at the path that remains until Spaniards are called to vote on November 29. "The PP has gone from less to more, I honestly believe that there will be a better result at the polls," said the leader, in view, for example, of the latest Sigma Dos poll for EL MUNDO, which returns the popular party to the ascending path while placing Sánchez at his worst mark of the legislature.

Although Feijóo has acknowledged that there is a flight of voters from his party to Vox, at the same time he has celebrated that the PP is bringing together votes from abstentionists, new voters and "people who have been trusting in what is already extinct, Spanish social democracy [in reference to former socialist voters]."