Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s reply to Pedro Sánchez’s investiture speech has served the leader of the PP to set the tough tone of opposition that he wants to maintain during the coming months. At least, until there are elections again (the next national elections are the European elections in June 2024).

Feijóo has been very forceful in his rejection of the amnesty, but without falling into the delegitimization of the president and without talking about the fact that Sánchez “has snuck a dictatorship through the back door” like Isabel Díaz Ayuso. And then, he has pulled back to portray the PSOE partners, with special attention to the PNV, Junts and Podemos, whom he has made ugly by swallowing policies that they do not share.

As if he wanted to alternate dialectical traces of Aznar’s gravity and Rajoy’s sarcasm, Feijóo has measured his speech to the millimeter to be both harsh and ironic. To mercilessly charge against the amnesty and against the pacts of the PSOE, but trying not to give rise to the debate being that of the “crispation” of the right.

For example: if the Vox spokesperson, Pepa Millán, called the socialist general secretary a “coup plotter” and an “apprentice tyrant”, the president of the PP remained that the investiture “was born from an electoral fraud” and we must “turn on all democratic alerts”.

“Sánchez is the perfect fit for the shoe that trampled our nation and our Constitution. No one has done more for the independence movement than Mr. Sánchez. The hunger of the independence movement has been added to Sánchez’s desire to eat,” the leader of the opposition to the acting president.

“What you bring today was not voted on,” Feijóo said in reference to the amnesty for crimes of the process for more than a decade. “It is an exercise in political corruption,” he said. “Making decisions against the general interest in exchange for personal benefits is political corruption,” he insisted, because.

“Mr. Sánchez has not gotten anyone’s support, he has bought it by signing checks that we will all pay,” and that “ends in humiliation.” “Sánchez humiliates himself, like him, but he has no right to humiliate us Spaniards,” he warned. “History will not give you amnesty, I assure you,” he said. “The image” that will remain of his presidency is that of “Puigdemont returning to Spain,” he has emphasized.

Feijóo has criticized that Sánchez has based almost half of his speech on criticism of the PP and Vox, to invoke a democratic “wall” to prevent a “reactionary drift” in Spain: “He has come to present himself as the lesser evil, which often merit for an investiture… but you are the greatest evil”. “The problem is you, your pathological ambition,” he added.

“He says,” Feijóo continued, that the amnesty is made “in the name of Spain.” “But man, he can’t even do it in the name of the Pedro Sánchez of three months ago!” He exclaimed, awakening a standing ovation from his people. “He doesn’t even speak on behalf of the millions of socialist voters to whom he lied. And not on our behalf!”

In front of Sánchez who has called him a “false moderate” and who has accused him of being closer to Vox than Pablo Casado, Feijóo has maintained that what he defends is “what a good part of the socialists think but do not dare to say.” “. As an example, he has pointed out that “if the amnesty is so good, why hasn’t it been approved in five years of government?”

The leader of the PP has harshly attacked the PNV, which he has assured that its “gap” will be occupied by “the PP of Euskadi” in the 2024 regional elections: “They are neither the majority nor are they progressive. Unless Junts has decided to abandon everything what was left of CiU or that the PNV has abandoned the tractor for the hammer and sickle”.

“Congratulations to the independence movement, because you now have the president you want: better a docile one than a reliable one,” he concluded.