Page assures that he would have "resigned his record" at Sánchez's investiture and believes that the legislature will be in danger when Puigdemont returns
The internal drip of criticism continues in the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez's political roadmap and the amnesty agreed with separatism. The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, revealed yesterday that, if he had been a national deputy, he would have “abandoned” his act rather than invest Sánchez for a legislature in which the coalition government depends completely on the pro-independence formations in Congress.
The Castilian-La Mancha socialist leader, the main critical voice of Sánchez, framed this position in his “particular” criteria to precisely defend that the parliamentarians of Castilla-La Mancha did not break voting discipline in the investiture session held two weeks ago in the Lower House.
“A deputy can disagree with an opinion in the parliamentary group, but if the group decides by majority, democratically, a position must be accepted.”. “You have to be a democrat before being left-wing or right-wing,” he explained in an interview given to the LaSexta program Salvados, in which he developed his position regarding the amnesty just one day after the PSOE met with Junts in Geneva secretly and agreed upon the figure of a Salvadoran mediator expert in guerrillas, Francisco Galindo.
Page predicted that the legislature will not last four years, and analyzed that there will be two different stages for the Government: “Until Puigdemont crosses La Junquera [border with France] there will be one legislature, and from there another”. And he defended that both the independence movement and Vox will gain muscle after the Government's “concessions” to separatism, contrary to what was defended in the electoral program, which is what he said he remained faithful to: “If we have gone to ask millions of Spaniards to vote to do one thing and we do the opposite, who do we lack loyalty to?” asked the socialist territorial baron, who ruled out in any case running to lead the formation and succeeding Pedro Sánchez, whom he disfigured for his “changes in opinion from one day to the next”. “It is more honest to recognize that votes are needed and that where I have said I say I say Diego.”
Regarding the future, Page was “skeptical” about the amnesty's ability to reconcile Catalan society, and asserted that his critical position can give an image of “loneliness” on the public level, “but not deep down.”. He acknowledged that in the last socialist Federal Committee in which the amnesty and pacts with formations such as ERC or Junts were addressed “the air was cut with a knife” and the atmosphere was “hostile” and he stressed his intention to “appeal in advance “any referendum that is held that does not have to do with the reform of the Constitution. Even so, he explained, he is convinced by what was signed with Junts that no type of consultation on independence will be held.
Asked about his relationship with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Emiliano García-Page gave him a 5. When asked the same question regarding Pedro Sánchez, he responded with an 8 in social policies and a 2 in the territorial sphere and in the relationship with nationalism.