Feijóo rejects calling Catalonia a "nation" as PSOE and Junts negotiate and defends "maintaining the status of historical nationality"
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, opposes Catalonia being recognized as a nation, as the PSOE and Junts are studying in the framework of the negotiations for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “We must maintain the concept of historical nationality, which is what was agreed upon in 1978 and, furthermore, the Constitution had one of its greatest supports in this community,” he argued.
In a conference in Barcelona, at the Forum Europa Tribuna Catalunya, the popular leader has also referred to the amnesty for those accused of the process that would form part of the pact that would allow the re-election of Sánchez as President of the Government: “It is not a reconciliation, It's a political transaction. “The amnestied person has said that he is going to do it again and furthermore it has no place in the legal system.”
“Forgiving someone who has committed a crime is legal, but for the State to ask forgiveness from someone who has committed a crime is illegal and immoral”
The PP leader has indicated that his party's “red lines” before the elections “have been the same” as after the 23-J vote.. In this way, he has assured that Junts wanted to contact his party after the elections and that, before the composition of the Board of the Congress of Deputies, the requests that the post-convergents conveyed to him were the use of Catalan in the Lower House and in the European institutions and an amnesty bill.
Feijóo has indicated that he made it clear to them that he could not accept these three demands, although he has once again pointed out that “there are many more coincidences in economic, fiscal and social matters between Junts and the PP than between Junts and the PSOE and Sumar.”
On the other hand, he has pointed out in reference to the socialists, “their red lines before the elections afterwards are the color that the separatists say”. “That is a fertilizer for political disaffection,” he added, using an expression used more than a decade ago by the former president of the Generalitat José Montilla (PSC), present at the event and whom Feijóo thanked for his attendance.
The popular leader has elaborated on that diagnosis of the former head of the Government in the last years prior to the independence process that Artur Mas began.. And, to do so, it has gone back to the Tinell Pact with which the tripartite (PSC, ERC and ICV) created a cordon sanitaire against the PP in 2003: “It was a historic and regrettable error and one of the origins of the disaffection that has brought to the current situation.”
Returning to the investiture, Feijóo has called the agreement to reissue a coalition government presented yesterday by Sánchez and the leader of Sumar and current acting second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, a “masquerade to cover the truth.”. And that reality, in his opinion, is that the current head of the Executive is “a mere supporting actor” and “the only protagonists are the pro-independence parties”. “There is no ethics, but arithmetic, and there is no defense of the general interest, but of the personal interest,” he stated.