The leader of the PP and candidate for the general elections on November 29, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, considers it "essential, but insufficient" that the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, resigns after the train accident in Urda (Toledo) because the person who has the greatest responsibility in all of this is Sánchez.
"We are not talking about a specific failure. Spain is in systemic failure. Everything works worse because Spain is without management and without maintenance. Trains crash for the same reason that the roads are full of potholes, housing is impossible or a blackout occurs," he noted in an interview in La Vanguardia.
On the other hand, he has assured that one cannot be president of Spain "without understanding, without knowing how to interpret and without having explicit commitments" with Catalonia.
The leader of the PP has placed Catalonia as a priority, in addition to highlighting that his desire is not to centralize but to make "autonomy work and for the State to have a presence in Catalonia."
For Feijóo, Catalans pay more taxes than anyone else, they have the highest percentage of illegal occupation of homes, it is one of the areas with the highest criminal acts compared to the rest of Spain and "there is a deficit in the execution of the public works budget in Catalonia."
Given this, he has committed to executing the budget in Catalonia and to make a quarterly assessment of the degree of execution of the committed investments: "If at Rodalies we say that we are going to invest x, four times a year I will appear here and explain the degree of execution."
According to Feijóo, it is not difficult for him to interpret Catalonia because he was president of Galicia for 14 years, so he also knows "the linguistic issue, the identity and cultural feeling."
In his opinion, the majority of Catalans are disappointed with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, because they consider that he has not reciprocated them despite having supported him, and he believes that many cannot stand "this atmosphere of tension, provocation, tension, corruption that he is leading."
Vox
"And I ask those disappointed socialists to give a chance to a constitutionalist and autonomist politician like me," claimed Feijóo, who is surprised that the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, considers that he is getting into Vox's territory by putting names like Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo or Xavier García Albiol on his list.
After making it clear that the PP "has not signed anyone from Vox", he justified his party's agreement with those of Abascal for the Senate to achieve political change in Spain because, in his opinion, it is essential and democratically necessary.
The only sanitary cordon they put in place, he clarified, is with Bildu but not with Vox, after confirming that it is the third political force in Spain, nor with the regional parties "that want to speak within the Constitution."
PNV and Together
Regarding the PNV, he believes that it has lost the maneuverability it had to reach an understanding with the PP, and considers that Junts made the mistake of making Sánchez president and he "has taken advantage of Junts to try to consolidate the presidency of the PSC in Catalonia."
"That said, I must say that with Junts we have maintained a line of exchange of views in certain important votes in Congress. And in the end it was Junts, not the PNV, that voted in favor of Sánchez not being able to validate according to which royal decrees laws," he added.
Rodalies
When asked if he agrees with the transfer of Rodalies to Catalonia, he responded that he does not know if this is of interest to the Generalitat because "it is an enormous need for investment and enormous complexity in management."
"For me, this thing about receiving deficient services, Catalonia already received that in the transfer of health and from that moment the Generalitat, and I say this because I managed Insalud, began to have financial problems," he highlighted.
Catalan
In relation to what he will do in linguistic matters in Catalonia, he stressed that he is proposing that the laws be complied with because "there is a repeated sentence of a minimum of Spanish in the classrooms that speaks of 25%."
"I come from an autonomous community where we seek a system of linguistic balance where 50% of the cases are taught in Galician and the other 50% in Spanish. And today more Galician is spoken in Galicia than Catalan in Catalonia."
Financing
Regarding whether he agrees that Catalonia has a financing deficit, he has indicated that the financing system must be updated, so if he is president he will want to talk to the regional presidents "about income and expenses, because if not, the other thing is to lie to the people."
