The PP has accepted the PSOE's proposal that the debates be organized by the Television Academy, with participation in the design of the campaign directions of the different political parties. The socialists have proposed this route due to the PP's refusal to accept a debate on TVE and demand that they all be held on private television. On the other hand, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has confirmed that, if he is sworn in after 29-N, he will repeal the housing law approved by Sánchez's coalition government, which is already encountering resistance in its application by the autonomous communities governed by the PP. "We have to repeal the housing law. Of course. If there is a regrettable social policy, it is the housing policy, it is solved by building houses," Feijóo said in an interview on Cuatro. For his part, the general secretary of the PP and campaign spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, has once again raised the specter of the pout in an interview on esRadio. "The important thing is to win the elections and at the moment there is nothing won. Not even until the ballot boxes at the polling stations. The ballot boxes are empty, except for those that Pedro Sánchez may be preparing," he hinted. Tellado has also criticized that the grandchildren law did not seek to allow Spanish descendants to vote, but rather "to have greater room for maneuver to try to adulterate the final result."
The Popular Party has reported that the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has called today the PSOE campaign spokesperson, Rebeca Torró, and "has insisted on the need to facilitate the organization of debates between candidates. One, next week, between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez. And another, in the final stretch of the campaign, between the four or five leaders of the main national parties."
Tellado has defended that it was the groups that make up Antena 3, Telecinco, Cuatro and La Sexta that organized these meetings, which were formally requested by Atresmedia and Mediaset almost a month ago. The first would be in a week (16N). The second, in just over fifteen days (26N).
"Torró has been inflexible. She has not been in favor of the presence of Podemos (which may be as much an heir of Sumar as Frente Amplio is) in the second of the debates, and insists on vetoing private media groups. In addition, she defends that it be a corporation whose president, management team, managers and heads of news are appointed by the President of the Government, who organizes any of the meetings. And that is not possible," the popular party said in a statement.
But, "given the impossibility of convincing it of the unsuitability of vetoing private groups, and in the spirit of being able to offer Spaniards spaces in which to confront ideas and programs", the PP accepts that the debates be organized by the Television Academy, with participation in the design of the campaign directions of the different political parties.
“We have already confirmed to the president, María Casado, our willingness to meet as soon as possible and begin to negotiate the terms of the meeting,” they add.
Podemos is in favor of the Television Academy being the organizer of the electoral debate for the general elections on November 29, and "makes itself available to the institution" to make it possible, the training has assured in a statement released this afternoon. Ione Belarra's party assures that it "favorably welcomes" the proposal made this Monday by the PSOE, which has proposed that the Television Academy, as in previous electoral campaigns, organize the debate.
The leftist organization demands that both Frente Amplio and the Podemos candidate, Irene Montero, be present in said debate, "by virtue of the electoral results and the representativeness of the respective candidates." “We trust that the rest of the parties will not hinder the holding of a plural debate and we make ourselves available to the Television Academy team to articulate our participation in the debate,” they conclude.
The PSOE has proposed this Monday that the Television Academy organize one of the electoral debates prior to the 29-N elections, given the PP's refusal to accept a debate on TVE and demand that they all be held on private television stations. "If the PP maintains its veto on RTVE and refuses to let public radio and television organize one of the two electoral debates proposed between the candidates for the Presidency, the PSOE formally proposes to all political formations and all communication groups that the Television Academy be the entity in charge of organizing both meetings - both the face-to-face and the four-way debate -, as has been carried out successfully on previous occasions," the socialist party proposes in a note released to the media. According to the PSOE, the organization by the Academy “guarantees a neutral and open signal so that all media that wish to do so can broadcast freely.”
In the note, the PSOE defends "a balanced distribution between the public service and private operators" to offer the debates, which is why it sees "indispensable" at least one of them be organized by RTVE and another by a private television. “Debating without exclusivity and without excluding any television, especially public television, continues to be an inalienable principle.” Likewise, the PSOE reiterates that it is “fully willing” to debate both in a face-to-face format between the President of the Government and Alberto Núñez Feijóo and in a four-way debate, with the candidates of the main national parties.
The Popular Party has announced that the program they will present this Tuesday includes a package with 249 measures “that define the national reconstruction” that Alberto Núñez Feijóo promises to undertake if he is sworn in as president. "We will not just present an electoral program. We will present the change necessary to rebuild Spain," said Deputy Secretary Juan Bravo in a video distributed to the media.
“A program that represents an amendment to all of the policies of Pedro Sánchez's Government,” he added. The popular ones want “many of these proposals” to begin “to become a reality during the first hundred days of the Government.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has denied that his party offered Koldo García payments to defame Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE, after the information published last week by Cadena SER along those lines. "There is no one in the Popular Party who has any type of authorization to offer it to anyone. I assure you that this is absolutely false; in the name of the PP, not a single euro has been offered to anyone," stated the leader of the PP in Cuatro.
Last Thursday, parliamentary spokesperson Ester Muñoz denied any meeting between the then PP lawyer, Alfonso Durán, and Koldo García. In Melilla, this morning, a journalist asked Deputy Secretary Cuca Gamarra: “Do you still maintain that lawyer Durán never met with Koldo?” The popular leader responded: “As for the meeting that existed, all explanations have been given.” In Feijóo's cabinet, regarding Gamarra's words, they argue: "We have always denied any meeting in which there was an offer of money to this person."
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has once again attacked Pedro Sánchez's immigration policy and has promised to end the shipments destined for the countries of origin if the departures are not stopped. "I will tell the countries of origin that subsidies for development are over if they do not control their borders," said the leader of the PP in Cuatro, "We are going to put an end to the mafias. I am going to ask for collaboration from Interpol, from Frontex," he added, stating that the central government prevents Frontex from accessing information on ships that enter Spanish waters.
"Immigration will be ordered or it will not be. I am not going to indiscriminately regularize all the immigrants in my country. What must be avoided is the departure of the cayucos. I am in favor of the return regulation, which provides that immigrants can be sent to third countries," he stressed.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has stated that the Supreme Court “has done a good job” by eliminating the right to vote of those nationalized by the grandchildren law because it was a “trap” concocted by Pedro Sánchez to inflate the electoral roll because the “polls were not going well.” Asked in an interview in Cuatro, he said that "the Central Electoral Board has done a good job and the Supreme Court has done a good job because we have caught him [Sanchez] in the trap of trying to give away 2,400,000 passports so that there would be 2 million or so more voters. Since the polls were not going well with the ordinary census, what he tried was to do an extraordinary census and the Supreme Court caught him."
Alberto Núñez Feijóo will attend the State funeral this Tuesday for the 69 victims of the Urda accident. A day later, the general strike is called, the date of which was set weeks ago and whose call the leader of the PP has asked to be called off due to the incident. "The PSOE has said that it is a strike against the opposition. If this strike against the opposition is nonsense, a strike the day after a state funeral for the victims disregards all principles of sensitivity and respect," added the popular candidate, who has promised to designate the police and civil guards as a risky profession.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has attacked the Government's immigration policy, saying that the regularization of immigrants, which according to his figures has affected 1,300,000 foreigners, causes a knock-on effect that has caused 500,000 immigrants to have entered Spain in the Government of Pedro Sánchez, compared to 95,000 in the Government of Mariano Rajoy. “This pisses off everyone and it certainly pisses off someone who tries to dedicate all their time and energy to making minimally responsible politics,” he said in an interview on Cuatro. He has also said that Spain is at risk of becoming an underdeveloped country and that "it is the country that attracts the most irregular immigration in all of Europe and where thousands and thousands and thousands of people die trying to access our coasts."
