Moncloa takes advantage of Feijóo's error on pensions to question his credibility
Moncloa and the PSOE have launched to use the errors of Alberto Núñez Feijóo about the increase in pensions in the stage of Mariano Rajoy to try to undermine the credibility of the PP candidate.
The campaign began precisely with the questioning of the credibility of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the interview on Onda Cero where Carlos Alsina asked him the direct question: “Why do you lie to us so much, President?”
Sánchez then replied that they were not lies but “changes of opinion”, and in several subsequent interviews he was asked directly about his credibility.
[Feijóo corrects the pension data given on TVE: “I don't mind clarifying inaccurate statements”]
However, the last week of the electoral campaign has begun with the argument completely turned around, after the PP leader made the mistake of assuring Silvia Intxaurrondo in La Hora de La 1, on TVE, that all the PP governments pensions have been revalued according to the CPI.
“It is not correct, Mr. Feijóo,” the journalist replied, and the scuffle began. Feijóo challenged Intxaurrondo to clarify where he got that information from, reaffirming what he said and calling on her to review the newspaper library, but he was also willing to apologize if it was later shown that he was not correct.
Later, Feijóo qualified on Twitter that he was referring to the fact that in all of Rajoy's years pensions were raised, even if it was not with the CPI.
This circumstance has begun to be used by the PSOE and also by Sumar to try to overcome the adverse polls for the July 23 elections.. The socialist ministers and leaders received the order to use the episode to question the credibility of Feijóo.
They already launched this strategy a week ago when, after the face-to-face debate between Sánchez and Feijóo, the Prime Minister wanted to make up for his bad performance by speaking the next day of “mountains of lies” from the PP leader.
The espionage of 'Pegasus'
Socialist sources explain that the campaign has been adapted to now especially influence Feijóo's “lack of speech”, hoping to also be able to link it to the repeated statements in which he is reluctant to agree with Vox.
The idea is to speed up the argument that “it is not reliable” because, according to what they say, “he has lied when talking about pensions and when assuring that the Pegasus espionage was archived due to lack of collaboration from the Government.”
In the PP they assure that what happened with Feijóo on TVE was “a slip” and accuse Moncloa of “exploiting” what happened to try to hide what they consider “lies” of the President of the Government. They also explain that in the whole of Rajoy's term, pensions as a whole rose more than the CPI, taking into account that at that time inflation was very low, even negative.. That is what Feijóo was referring to, according to the PP.
They also ensure that Sánchez also said in the face-to-face debate that José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero never froze pensions, when the former president himself, a day later, admitted in an interview that, indeed, he did so in 2011, at the end of his term. mandate. Sánchez was then a PSOE deputy and, therefore, voted in favor of that decision, as Feijóo reminds him every day.
According to the popular ones, when the leader of the PP assures that he voted in the Senate in favor of revaluing pensions, he is referring to the approval of a non-legal proposal that urged the Government to undertake this increase.