The fourth face-to-face between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo was marked, like the previous ones, by the harsh tone that, progressively, the debate in the Senate between the President of the Government and the opposition leader acquired. Both, one month before the examination of the local and regional polls, confronted models on housing, fiscal and environmental matters, mainly, but they launched other messages that proved that the distance between the two main parties in this country, eight months to the general ones, it is sidereal.
More homes
It was the announcement on which Sánchez revolved his appearance and, in particular, his first comment: to the promise of 93,000 public housing for affordable rentals, the president added a package of 20,000 new properties that will be built on land owned by the Ministry of Defense through the State Land Entity. The debate had a continuous aroma of housing, and Sánchez predicted that all the autonomies, including the popular ones, will comply with and abide by the law that Congress will approve this Thursday.
Pedro Sánchez promises another 20,000 public homes on Defense land A WINK TO THE CEOE, CRITICAL TO FERROVIAL
The debate began in an economic key: Sánchez urged the CEOE to collectively negotiate a “definitive” increase in wages and criticized the transfer of Ferrovial's headquarters abroad to “evade taxes”. Feijóo reproached him for his interventionist drift and promised to “repeal sanchismo”.
“THREE FACTIONS, TWENTY ACRONYMS”
Feijóo attacked the internal division of the Government and questioned Sánchez what he thought of his partners thinking that the PSOE is “the war party”, the one that “returns to the Penal Code of the Pack”, the one who said that “Morocco is dictatorship” and Tezanos “a manipulator”. “Your government is broken into three factions and 20 acronyms. They insult each other in 'prime time' and are unable to agree on anything,” the PP leader launched.
The absence in the 'yes is yes'
Feijóo tried to hurt the socialist bench with the striking absence of the president in the vote on the reform of the yes is yes law. “I will vote tomorrow,” launched the opposition leader, referring to the arrival of said modification this Wednesday in the Senate. “He has not asked for forgiveness with greatness, but with a small mouth,” he launched.
“A DISAPPOINTMENT”
Feijóo reproached how Sánchez reached the leadership of the PSOE without any experience and without transparency in internal voting. “They promoted you to cover up a corruption scandal,” replied the president, who defended having reached the socialist general secretary democratically. “His leap into national politics has been a disappointment,” Sánchez went on to say. “I don't know if this is too big for him or if it's far away.”
“Dire” and “Peripatetic”
Despite the fact that sources on both sides considered that the debate was not harsh, Feijóo and Sánchez exchanged harsh terms. The President of the Government came to describe the opposition leader as “calamitous” and “peripatetic” for the incident with the Latina televangelist who recently participated in an act of the PP, parallel to the Ibero-American summit in which Sánchez participated.
Doñana, “electoral trigger”
One of the most confrontational moments came when Feijóo demanded that Sánchez not use Doñana as an “electoral trigger” in order to wear down the PP. After a few seconds of reproaches from the socialist bench, the president of the PP replied: “I did not say it, Alfonso Guerra said it a few minutes ago”. In Genoa they consider that Sánchez, by placing the Junta de Andalucía at the center of his attacks, shows that he has no arguments to debate effectively with Feijóo at the national level.