Sánchez and Feijóo meet today to confirm their differences: the amnesty and the blockade of the CGPJ will focus the reproaches
The acting president and candidate for the investiture and the leader of the PP meet today in Congress within the framework of the round of contacts with the parliamentary forces – with the exception of Vox – opened by the former to gather support that will allow him to continue in La Moncloa and form a new coalition Government.
The meeting between the two is not part, however, of this context: neither does Sánchez plan to ask Feijóo for his votes, nor has Feijóo considered the possibility of supporting Sánchez either actively or passively.
It will actually be the confirmation of a disagreement with no possibility of rehabilitation; an exchange of reproaches about which of the two defends more – or violates, depending on how you look at it – the Constitution; who bets more on general interests; who advocates for equality and who for difference.
The popular man arrives at the event exhibiting the clamor in Madrid and Barcelona of tens of thousands of citizens against the presumed amnesty law, more or less disguised, that Sánchez negotiates in exchange for independence support for his inauguration.
“Cacicada”
An amnesty that for Feijóo is nothing more than the bargaining chip in the transaction that the socialist leader intends to carry out to stay in power.. A “cacicada” who would claim, in his opinion, equality among Spaniards; a torpedo against the waterline of the rule of law and a demonstration of arbitrariness on the part of the Executive.
The leader of the PP maintains that the amnesty has no place in the Magna Carta and that trying to fit it in with hammer blows contravenes the spirit of the constituent that already rejected the amendments that sought to introduce it in the constitutional text.. Feijóo will put forward these arguments and insist that the nation's Government cannot be held hostage by the minorities who intend to blow it up.
For his part, Sánchez will insist that his project for the country involves taking a decisive step in favor of “concord” between citizens and territories; that it can attract the support of all minority formations to promote a plural Spain and that its plans will be fully respectful of the Constitution.
The socialist leader will present his concessions to the independence movement as a show of “generosity” in favor of “coexistence” and will not hesitate to blame Feijóo for the blockage in the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, an example, evident in his opinion. , that the Popular Party was the first to violate constitutional principles.
The reproaches will also predictably be crossed on behalf of the allies of both parties.. If for Feijóo any pact, prior payment, of the PSOE with Bildu or with Junts is unworthy; For Sánchez, the agreements between the PP and Vox are. At this point there is no longer room to imagine a state concert between the two main political forces.
This will be a fruitless date, valid only for both to exhibit the abyss that separates them.. In fact, the interest of Sánchez's round is focused exclusively on the meetings he will have on Wednesday with ERC and, above all, on Friday, with Junts.