Gamarra calls Sánchez's meeting with Bildu an "indignity": "It is a black day for democracy"

“In that handshake and in those smiles we have seen that Pedro Sánchez is willing to pay with indignity” the price of his investiture, “in order to remain in La Moncloa”. The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, described this Friday as a “photo of indignity” the meeting between Pedro Sánchez and the parliamentary spokesperson for EH Bildu, Mertxe Aizpurua.. “Today is a black day for democracy in Spain,” he stressed.

“Today's photo of Pedro Sánchez with Bildu, with one condemned for apology of terrorism, is the image of indignity, and the image of the lowest one can fall in our country,” said the 'number two' of Alberto Núñez Feijóo at a press conference in La Rioja, after insisting that it is the “greatest exercise of indignity of any European democracy”. “Never has a ruler of a European democracy gone so low to remain in power,” he added.

This Friday, within the framework of his round of contacts for the investiture, the acting President of the Government held his first meeting with EH Bildu and took the photo from which he fled throughout the last legislature despite the fact that the party Arnaldo Otegi was one of his priority partners who cemented his majority in Congress.

For Gamarra, this is an “indecent whitewashing” of Bildu by the acting president of the Government. “Today he has shown that, between indignity and decency, he chooses the former”, but, he added, “nothing surprises with Pedro Sánchez”. “A party like Bildu cannot be the one that sets the conditions for Pedro Sánchez to be president of Spain, and for all Spaniards to pay for it in terms of dignity and humiliation,” he added.

Feijóo's 'number two' has criticized the fact that Sánchez has met with the spokesperson of a party that “months ago had 40 convicted of terrorism on its lists, many of them for crimes of blood; which still does not condemn terrorism and refuses to collaborate in the clarification of 375 murders.

In that sense, he has assured that while the Government makes “unfounded” accusations against the PP regarding the booing of Sánchez yesterday, “it is not capable of demanding that Bildu stop the ongi etorris; it must be that this freedom of expression does “he likes it and feels comfortable in it.”. “He has a double standard,” he said.

For Gamarra, there are three images that mark the scope of Sánchez's negotiations: on Wednesday he spoke with Oriol Junqueras, “convicted of sedition”; today, with “someone who does not condemn acts of terrorism”; and, in a few days, “he will do it with a fugitive from Justice,” said the 'popular' leader, in reference to the fact that Sánchez did not want to explicitly rule out a call to Carles Puigdemont.