Sumar asks Feijóo to resign from the investiture in his meeting with the PP and he replies that Sánchez has fewer votes
The round of conversations of the PP for the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has led him to meet this Tuesday with Sumar in a meeting that is more formal than a deepening of the contents. In that meeting, Sumar has demanded that the PP candidate withdraw and give up attempting the investiture because it is a “waste of time”, while the PP has replied that for now they have much more guaranteed votes than Pedro Sánchez, who does not even reaches 160.
The meeting, which lasted around half an hour in one of the rooms of Congress, was held with the absence of the leaders of both political forces.. Yolanda Díaz had previously refused to meet with Feijóo and had delegated her place to Sumar's spokesperson in Congress, Marta Lois.. That is why the PP has also done the same and has lowered the profile of its interlocutor. He has sent the general secretary of the parliamentary group, Carlos Rojas.
The enormous ideological distance between the PP and Sumar made any type of agreement for the investiture unthinkable.. So the meeting basically served to exchange reproaches, although it took place in a “cordial” tone.. Rojas has disgraced Lois that Díaz went to Brussels to meet with Carles Puigdemont, a fugitive from Spanish Justice. For her part, Sumar's spokesperson has reproached the popular for their appeals to the Constitutional Court against Díaz's labor reform or the Trans Law. He has demanded that if the PP “commits to dialogue” it has to “respect” these “great agreements.”
The main reproach has been about the investiture. Rojas reminded Sumar's spokesperson that Feijóo is the winner of the elections and who has received the mandate from the King to first try to request the confidence of Congress. He explained that the PP's intention is to offer “a pact to all parties to reinforce the institutional and constitutional pillars, and equality for all Spaniards.”. And to Lois's request that Feijóo withdraw and resign from the investiture, the representative of the popular party has pointed out that his leader has 172 guaranteed votes against the PSOE and Sumar “who do not offer anywhere near that amount of support.” .
“We find it incredible that PSOE and Sumar question the investiture. It is a setback in the way of doing politics. Hence, “after these more than 20 days of dragging our feet,” knowing that in no case will it prosper, he has demanded that the best thing is to give up the debate so that we can “move forward as soon as possible in having a progressive government.”
Regarding the meeting between Díaz and Puigdemont, Rojas told Lois that it was “unacceptable”, since he is “a fugitive from Justice”, who “what he has to do is appear before the courts and answer for the crimes he committed.” has committed.”
The Popular Party also finds it “unacceptable”, and this is what the PP representative has conveyed to Sumar's spokesperson, that the PSOE “is talking about amnesty”, something that for Feijóo's party is “clearly anti-constitutional”.. And he does it to get the votes of the independence movement “at any price” “even if it means breaking the pillars of the Constitution.”