Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo needed an hour of meeting to confirm and display their differences. Between the two, leaders of the two most important political forces in the country, there is not a single point of coincidence. Only reproaches and distance. The expectations surrounding their meeting, framed in the round of contacts undertaken by the socialist leader to gather the necessary support for his investiture, were actually zero. And they have been confirmed.

Feijóo assured that the result of the meeting was “more than predictable.” Neither Sánchez has asked for PP votes nor has Feijóo shown himself willing to give them to him. The popular leader has attended the meeting in search of some information about Sánchez’s plans to be inaugurated and the agreements that he is willing to close and the price that he is going to pay to the independentistas to achieve it.

The leader of the PP has clarified his willingness to look for any gap in understanding between his party and the PSOE, something that on this occasion has not been possible, nor was it possible during the failed investiture debate of the popular politician because Sánchez avoided participating. in the same.

In this sense, Feijóo has asked him to clarify whether or not his position is to defend the equality of Spaniards before the law. The popular politician has assured that he has not received a response despite having insisted on the need to “come face to face”, with “honesty” and clarify the response that he is going to give to the demands of the independentists “without euphemisms.”

According to Feijóo, the alternative to independence is state agreements between the two major parties. He has asked Sánchez to recognize this and also admit that his objective is not coexistence or harmony but rather to stay in power.

Feijóo has urged him to consult the Spaniards in new elections if they want to recognize themselves as an oppressive State, if they want there to be citizens of two categories, or if they support his change of opinion in favor of now granting those accused of the process an amnesty.

The popular leader has insisted on the need for Sánchez to “ask the Spaniards for authorization at the polls to do what it seems he is going to do.” For his part, he claims to be very clear: “Between inequality and new elections, new elections.” Feijóo advocates that “the Spanish decide.”

According to the PP leader, Sánchez’s response to all these specific questions has been “nothing.” “Everything trusts,” he said, “that the Constitutional Court protects the decision it is preparing to circumvent the Constitution.” For Feijóo it is “inconceivable that Spain is pending the decision of a group of politicians with pending matters before Justice.”

Feijóo has assured that the PP will continue to be a state party that will defend what the majority of Spaniards share: “There are no gentlemen above the law here.” The popular has seen Sánchez totally convinced that he is going to be president of the Government, which leads him to conclude that the negotiations he is holding with the secessionists “are going well.”

Sánchez, as explained by socialist sources, has reproached the popular leader for his “lack of respect” for the King and his “attempt to exploit the National Holiday of October 12” for having called in the last two weeks demonstrations against his investiture, in allusion to the rally held in Madrid on September 24 and the march held this Sunday in Barcelona, ​​attended by tens of thousands of people. In this sense, the PSOE claims that Sánchez has demanded “restraint” from Feijóo in what he considers “a desperate attempt to agitate the street.”

The socialist has also called on the popular “respect for the electoral results of 23J, for parliamentary democracy and for the majority will of the citizens to form a Government of progress.”

In the general elections on July 23, the party with the most votes was the PP with a difference of 16 seats over the PSOE but without the possibility of gathering the number of votes necessary for Feijóo to be inaugurated. The PSOE called the Popular Party’s attempt to gain the confidence of the Chamber a “waste of time” and a “farce.”

Sánchez has also urged Feijóo to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. A demand that to the popular has seemed like a mere maneuver to distract the debate from its pacts with secessionism. The PP leader concluded after the meeting that “Sánchez is obsessed with achieving his goals without caring about the means.”