Alberto Núñez Feijóo gives maximum seriousness to what happened this week in Congress. The president of the PP believes that we are facing the beginning of “a very dangerous drift”. It refers to the reform on the use of co-official languages, which has begun to operate before it is debated, approved and comes into force.. «A consensus has been broken in the rules of the game of the Congress agreed upon for 40 years; “It is the first time that a law comes into force before being approved,” he said yesterday, at a press conference in the Lower House.. «It is the first payment so that Sánchez can continue being president. “We are facing an unprecedented transfer,” emphasized the leader of the most voted party.
That is why the PP is studying appealing the rule before the Constitutional Court. The PP's legal advice is currently analyzing whether there is any indication of unconstitutionality, especially in the division of translation contracts.. “If it is confirmed, we will act accordingly,” Feijóo concluded.. Sources from the Genoa leadership later told this newspaper that the appeal is quite probable, but they do not want to leave any loose ends.. “But it has a lot of signs of happening,” say the same sources.
For the candidate for the investiture, the PSOE “has not defended the regional languages, it has used them”. “He has dealt with them and has inherited languages that he does not know,” Feijóo insisted, before asking that no one “tamper” with Galician.
«The lawyers have already warned that Congress cannot become a karaoke. This does not happen in any Chamber. In no case can a law be used before being debated and approved,” lamented the Galician leader.
In fact, the report by lawyers on the use of co-official languages points out that it will be impossible to apply the norm in the short term, and calls for limiting the formal scope of the reform. “In order that the normal functioning of the Chamber is not altered”, the recognition of the use of Basque, Galician and Catalan “is subject to the terms in which such right is specified by the agreement of the Table” which “It must establish the procedures and means,” says the document, which this newspaper had access to.
If there is another matter in which the PP is willing to go not only to the Constitutional Court, but also to the European courts, that is the amnesty.. Feijóo believes that yesterday's words from Pedro Sánchez, opening the door to a clean slate of the crimes of the process and reducing the effectiveness of the judicial process, represent “a turning point in the democratic history of our country.”. “If Justice should not have been used in the face of criminal offenses, as Sánchez says, we are making an amendment to the entire Rule of Law,” he stressed at a press conference in Congress.. “And no president or candidate can do that,” he said.
The President of the Government pointed out on Wednesday in New York that “the political crisis never had to lead to justice”. This angered Feijóo, who acknowledged that he did not expect Sánchez to open the door to the amnesty before his inauguration and, therefore, he is going to change his speech for Tuesday, to charge against this circumstance.. «It is nonsense to say that what the judges have done is not correct. “There is no precedent,” he criticized.
“Yesterday we saw a president openly talking about an amnesty in favor of all those who committed crimes against Spanish democracy,” said Feijóo, who reiterated that the PP will use “all means to avoid it.”. «He is the same deputy who promised to put the escapees at the disposal of Justice and who said that it was rebellion [what happened in Catalonia in 2017] and that he even worsened the sentences. He has fooled us again. Repeated and aggravated electoral fraud has been committed, because he ran for office without the amnesty in his program,” the president of the PP explained at the press conference.