Illa replies to Feijóo that he will “never” be president: “First against the Catalan, now against the amnesty”

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, told this Sunday the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that he will “never” be president of Spain because he does not understand Catalonia. He did so after the PP leader's interview with La Vanguardia published this Sunday, in which Feijóo defends his territorial project before the general elections on November 29, ensuring that "you cannot be president of Spain without understanding Catalonia."

"Indeed. That is why you will never be president of Spain. First against the Catalan, now against the amnesty: a curious way of understanding Catalonia," Illa replied through a publication on the social network “I want to make it clear that I will not grant amnesty to Sanchismo in any of the cases ahead,” adds Feijóo.

The leader of the PP, during the conversation with La Vanguardia, also charges against the parliamentary strategy of the independence movement, denouncing that “Sánchez has taken advantage of Junts to consolidate the PSC in Catalonia.” JxCat's spokesperson in Congress and candidate for the November 29 elections, Miriam Nogueras, has responded to Feijóo's words, claiming to have forced the PSOE to do "what it had always said it would not do."

"There must have been the wrong party acronym. Precisely, if anyone has done and forced the PSOE to do what it had always said it would not do, it is Junts," Nogueras stressed in statements to the media. Regarding the repeal of the Amnesty law that Feijóo assures that he will carry out if he becomes president, Nogueras has reiterated that this is the reason why Junts' votes "will never go to the right-wing bloc."

After ensuring that Catalans are fed up with “the mismanagement and incompetence” of PP and PSOE, as well as fights, he insisted that these elections are not about Feijóo or Sánchez but about whether Catalonia has strength or not. "We will never have a Catalan majority in Spain. What we need from the 29th is to have a lot of strength so that absolutely nothing can be decided in Madrid without us, without Catalonia. The Catalan agenda must be on the table," he stressed.

After Salvador Illa, the PSC has also spoken out through its X account, with a thread of messages criticizing Feijóo and the "20 years of judicial, political and social offensive" of the PP against Catalonia. “It speaks of understanding Catalonia who has turned hostility towards our society into its main electoral engine,” the PSC has criticized.

Furthermore, the Catalan socialists maintain that this hostility "is not the past, it is present", in reference to the PP's vote against the housing decrees and Feijóo's "Contract with Spain", which, according to the PSC, once again puts linguistic immersion "in the spotlight".

“The PP model is the imposition, the judicialization of political life and the suppression of the self-government of Catalonia,” they have assured from the PSC. And they have warned: "In the face of the demagoguery and cynicism of those who today claim to 'understand us' while signing decrees against our people, the response is clear: defense of the language, shielding of self-government, dialogue and social rights."