On April 29, Pedro Sanchez He decided, after five days “of reflection” and to the surprise of few, not to resign from his position as President of the Government.
What could be expected as the last of a series of countless reasons for the Popular Party to finally adopt a policy of fierce opposition against the Socialist Party and against the Executive has not been such. As the president of VOX, Santiago Abascal, recalled in his public letter to Alberto Núñez Feijoo, Sánchez’s latest move has not caused the immediate cessation of relations between both parties. However, since the 29th, there have been approaches from the Popular Party towards Sánchez, in line with the strategy followed by the PP in recent months.
When barely 24 hours had passed since Sánchez’s appearance, the PP surprised offering the PSOE a agreement to regulate the figure of the president’s spouse, in reference to the investigation that a Madrid court has initiated into Begoña Gómez for alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business. On the other hand, VOX announced that it is presenting itself as a popular accusation in the investigation. «Feijoo has taken 24 hours to offer a new agreement to Sánchez. There is no way like this…” Abascal reacted in X when the news was made public.
The offer of an agreement to the PSOE hours after Sánchez warned that his objective is intervene the Judiciary and control critical media with the Government he did not come alone, but he was also accompanied by new criticism of VOX. «What is unprecedented is that a pseudosindicato file a complaint based on newspaper clippings, for a judge to admit it to proceedings and that some political parties rely on this to continue muddying and destabilizing«Criticized Fernando Fernández, a member of the Balearic PP in defense of Sánchez.
The possible negotiations and possible agreements have not stopped at political correctness towards Begoña Gómez. As already happened in the general elections, now, and even after the approval of the amnesty, even after the Government’s attacks on the Justice and the press, popular leaders have shown themselves willing to talk with the socialists for next government formations.
The PP candidate for the Catalan elections, Alejandro Fernandez, It opened on Tuesday, May 2 at sit down “to talk to the PSC if it breaks all its agreements with Junts and ERC«. “If they broke all their agreements with Puigdemont and ERC here and in Madrid, we could sit down and talk,” he declared in a colloquium organized by the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona. Although Fernández introduced the tagline “if they break with Junts and ERC”, contemplating conversations with socialists has little to do with the application of a policy of infinite distance with the government.
A position that has been deepened by Feijoo who, when there are just a few days left until the elections in Catalonia, has shown himself open to talk, not with Sánchez, but with Puigdemont. In an interview with the newspaper The vanguard, the popular one assured: «He has to reconcile himself with the law. And after this, anything is possible. Of course, talk and converse.
Furthermore, the leader of the PP has resorted again to the “useful vote” strategy, which he already used in the general elections of 23J with a catastrophic result. On this occasion, Feijoo also makes it clear that VOX is the constitutionalist party with the most representation in Parliament: 11 seats.
Nor have Sánchez and his associates’ threats to the judges altered the PP strategy to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). Far from seeking the breakdown of negotiations with the socialists in Brussels, Feijoo warned the president on Thursday that he intends to use the “theatre” about regeneration to “break” the negotiation with the popular ones to renew the CGPJ, “You will have to give explanations» to the European Commission. These statements by the PP leader came a few hours after VOX asked Feijoo, once again, to break “all negotiations” with the Government, “especially” in the governing body of the judges.
And the latest PP announcement on the recognition of Palestine as an independent state. After weeks of criticism of the Executive’s intention to make the recognition official as soon as possible, the PP registered in Congress last week – three days after Sánchez’s announcement – a motion in which it proposes that the Chamber reaffirm the position by voting. in favor of the recognition of Palestine as a State which was already adopted in November 2014 during the mandate of Mariano Rajoy.
The journalist and former deputy secretary of Communication of the PP, Pablo Montesinoshe was able to reveal in the program Red Hot from La Sexta what is the reason for the policy of non-aggression against the PSOE that they seem to have adopted in their party. «Publicly, the PP bet that Sánchez was going to continue, but Privately, some barons said that his permanence was preferable. Firstly, because of the impact of having a woman at the head of the Government, the first woman to preside over the Government, and secondly, because the opposition strategy would have to be completely changed of the PP,” explained the journalist.
It is not Montesinos’ first controversial revelation in this sense. After the last Basque elections, admitted that the main objective of Feijoo’s formation was for VOX to lose the seat for Álava which he obtained in 2020.
