Feijóo promises to reinforce the fight against organized crime and recover the OCON-SUR, dismantled by Marlaska

In the final stretch of the pre-campaign for the general elections on November 29, the leader of the Popular Party (PP) and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, landed this Sunday in Malaga, a city that he has referred to as the "engine" of change.

A change that is as necessary as it is possible but that "is not done" which is why he has called on PP supporters to mobilize and convince those who have voted for socialism and "do not feel represented" to support with their vote at the polls a model that is committed to management.

"Spain needs a change and for things to work," stressed the leader of the popular parties. "It needs to clean up the institutions, maintain its infrastructure and regain credibility in the world." We must put aside "the frivolity, the kisses, the dances and the macabre jokes while Spain suffers," he declared.

In a massive meeting with the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, Feijoo put on the table his intention to reinforce the fight against organized crime and recover the OCON-Sur, an elite unit of the Civil Guard that operated with great success between 2018 and 2022. That year the Ministry of the Interior, led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, made the controversial decision to dismantle it.

During the time it was active, OCON-Sur managed to keep drug traffickers at bay and recover the principle of authority that had been lost in areas such as Campo de Gibraltar, in Algeciras (Cádiz). Today, given the increase in organized criminal activity and drug trafficking, police unions, the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office and the Andalusian Government itself demand its implementation again. An issue that to date has not found support either in the Ministry or in its owner, Marlaska.

With this announcement he has given more than a nod to the State security forces and bodies, who demand more support from the central Government, and to whom the popular candidate has promised to support and provide the necessary means so that they can carry out their work safely.

"The State security forces and bodies will be protected to protect us," Feijóo highlighted, after remembering that he was in Barbate and Huelva, and listened to the concerns of the widows of the Civil Guards who died in the line of duty and the demands of their colleagues.

"We cannot ask them to risk their lives," he said, "without giving them the means, protection and support they need." In this sense, he is committed to strengthening the units against organized crime, improving the fleet and giving them protection to stop drug boats.

The candidate for the presidency of the Government has reiterated on several occasions - which has earned him the applause of a fervent audience - his intention to declare the Andalusian coastline as an area of ​​special interest for security and to hand over to the Civil Guard and the Police "everything that is requisitioned from the mafias."

In Spain it is necessary to "organize the borders, security to go out into the streets and audit what has happened" to know "how far the looting of these years has gone," pointing directly to the Government of the socialist Pedro Sanchez, which is surrounded by a dozen judicial cases over corruption issues and which has seen several of its senior officials go to prison. Such is the case of the former right-hand man of the President of the Government and Sánchez's minister, José Luis Ábalos.

In his speech, Feijóo also referred to the 115 victims of the train accidents in Adamuz (Córdoba) and Urda (Toledo) and described as "continued negligence" a catastrophe that he considers "could have been avoided" and for which he directly points the finger at the former minister Óscar Puente and his mismanagement.

At this point and after demanding the return of the bonuses to the ADIF directors, he has reiterated his commitment to "dedicate the money of the Spanish people to reviewing rail transport inch by inch so that there is no fear and more security."

There has also been time at this massive PP rally in Malaga to talk about housing, pensions, where he has reiterated that he will not only guarantee their revaluation but also the system so that young people, education, health and of course, Ceuta can benefit from it in the future.

"They want you to forget, we want it to never happen again," said Feijóo, who insisted that although in Sánchez's PSOE "they want this campaign to serve to forget", in the PP they are not going to do it, they are not going to forget the victims "or the fear that people have of taking a train." Nor from the sewers of the PSOE, from the machismo in the offices, from Koldo, Abalos or Puente, and much less from the person who put them there: Pedro Sánchez.

To govern is to serve - he said - and it is only served in a way "with honesty." "I am not going to fail you and the PP is not going to fail Spain," he declared.