The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has accused the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of having brought forward the call for general elections to try to "gag" judges and stop investigations into the financing of the PSOE, while hinting that money from the Executive's family, linked to prostitution, would have been used to finance his primaries.
In an interview on Cadena Cope, Feijóo questioned who in the PSOE ordered an investigation into judge Beatriz Biedma, who was in charge of the investigation into Pedro Sánchez's brother's case, and also focused on the people who financed the socialist leader's primaries.
"Is there money from Mr. Sánchez's family, coming from prostitution, that has financed his primaries? These types of questions are fundamental in a democracy," said the popular leader.
"There are 16 summaries" and new pending resolutions
Feijóo also referred to the corruption cases that have affected the Government of Pedro Sánchez and stressed that there are "16 summaries", while, for the moment, there is only a sentence for former minister José Luis Ábalos for the mask case. According to him, new judicial pronouncements could occur in the coming months.
Given these investigations, the leader of the PP believes that "it has not been a coincidence" that elections are now called for November 29, and has argued that the early election cuts off the possibility of Pedro Sánchez being called by a court "at least as a witness."
"Therefore, what Mr. Sánchez has tried to do is gag the judges so that they do not continue investigating the financing, the sewers, the bribes of the PSOE," summarized Feijóo, who lamented that Spain had not experienced "in 50 years" a "legislature of delinquency from the Government."
Fear that protests in France will spread to Spain
During the same interview, Alberto Núñez Feijóo stated that he fears that the violence of the protests in France will spread to Spain, and reproached that there is a "radical left" that instigates demonstrations that, in his opinion, are "savage," something he has described as a risk.
Even so, the leader of the PP said he understands that people "are indignant" because "they don't make ends meet" and have lost purchasing power, especially in Spain, where young people take longer to emancipate themselves than in other European Union countries. "Despair must be channeled towards the ballot box," he defended.
Relationship with Morocco and criticism of the Government
In other matters, Feijóo has assured that he will maintain "loyalty, good neighborliness and firmness" with Morocco, although he has made it clear that it will not be at the expense of the "territorial integrity of Spain." "That respect must be bilateral and mutual," claimed the opposition leader.
He also criticized the President of the Government for having "thanked" Morocco for "only having invaded us once," in reference to the migratory crisis at the end of July in Ceuta. "I don't know what sewer could be on Mr. Sánchez's mobile phone," he slipped.
Feijóo also criticized the position of the Spanish Executive for "being alone" in Brussels by not supporting the new European regulation on migratory crises, a norm that, as he explained, would allow the immediate return of those who enter instrumentally, including elderly people or minors, and suspend the right to asylum of those who have invaded a country.
Regarding the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta, the leader of the PP said he hopes that the National Court will investigate why action was not taken sooner, and mentioned documents from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) in which, he said, it was warned that this "invasion" was being ordered and occurring, and that there was a maximum risk.
"All these things we will know when we get to the Government," Feijóo advanced, insisting that Morocco will have a "loyal" neighbor but with a "firm" Executive.
Immigration, regularizations and "pull effect"
Regarding the PP's migratory model, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has defended that immigration "is necessary" against "lack of control," which he has described as "unsustainable." "An immigrant with an employment contract, who is working in Spain and who is contributing, we need him. However, an immigrant who enters irregularly, who does not contribute, but lives off benefits and also commits crimes, evidently that immigrant cannot and does not want to live with us. Well, he will not live, he will be expelled," he advanced.
In this context, he highlighted the figure of the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, as head of the list for the province of Barcelona in the November 29 elections, and stressed that regular immigration is necessary for trades such as bricklayers or plumbers, at a time when, he said, housing is needed.
Feijóo has expressed his opposition to the "massive regularizations without conditions" approved, in his opinion, by the Sánchez Government during this legislature, because they would have generated a "pull effect" in Spain, denounced, he affirmed, by 22 prime ministers from 22 European Union countries.
Likewise, he has denounced that the regularization of more than 1.3 million migrants "is harming all of Europe" and that it is one of the causes of the "invasion" of Ceuta, while criticizing that the Government "gives away" more than 2.4 million passports for an "electoral engineering" that benefits Pedro Sánchez. "If he doesn't have enough voters in Spain because the polls don't give him, then we are going to manufacture other voters to see if they do," he concluded.