At the beginning of a decisive week for the negotiations between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community, Alberto Núñez Feijó moved all party officials to Melilla for Monday’s regular meeting. The meeting in the autonomous city had been planned for several days and signaled that the populist leader would resume the tough speech against immigrants that has sought to wrest the flag from Santiago Abascal’s party in recent months. And he now has to agree with whom in Valencia. president After the resignation of Carlos Masson. This Monday, in a twist of the script, Feijo softened his message towards foreigners, using Melilla as an example of the “coexistence” of “culture” and “religion”. In parallel, Vox has made an anti-immigration platform and is pushing for Les Colts to declare its support for the candidate.
During his visit to Melilla, Feijó presented a “contract” with the autonomous city that Genoa would conclude if it arrived in La Moncloa after the general elections scheduled for 2027. It was during the announcement of the pledge that the opposition leader praised the city of Melilla, which has a population of 90,000 people, as a paradigm for integration. “We cannot condemn the political periphery, which is the realm of the state, where coexistence between cultures, religions and languages is being built every day,” the PP leader said at an event with supporters after the steering committee meeting. “You are the perfect laboratory to encourage a policy of tolerance in Spain,” Feijó added.
The intervention of the PP leaders followed that of the autonomous city’s president, Juan José Imbroda, who rules with an absolute majority after regaining power in the last local elections. Imbroda also highlighted the “integration” model represented by Melilla compared to Box’s policy. “Today, Melilla is a focus of national interests and a city of peace and unity,” declared the president of the autonomous city. “Here we do not tolerate each other. We respect each other. Muslims, Hindus, Gypsies, everyone is respected. To be in Spain, we must respect all religions. There is no forgiveness from God or man for those who misuse religion. Confront these head on,” the popular leader added in a thinly veiled allusion to ultra formations.
The visit to Melilla took place the day after the conclusion of the Andalucía PP congress, in which Feijó claimed, without making a statement, that he was seeking a favorable vote for the Populist Party, which opposed Vox. He did so less than a month before the start of the campaign in Extremadura, followed by Castilla and León and Andalusia. In this way, the PP leader balances his need for ultras in Valencia and at the same time to prove his legitimacy against Abascal’s lineup. Therefore, he defused direct conflict with Vox president in public.
“Sanchez violates judicial independence”
In his speech, Feijó also mentioned for the first time the words of government president Pedro Sánchez. In an interview with EL PAÍS newspaper this Sunday, President Sánchez declared that state Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz is “innocent” of the charges of leaking secrets for which he is on trial. The PP leader accused the chief executive of these statements, which involved “interference in the Supreme Court” and “destruction of judicial independence.” “Nothing like this has ever happened in 50 years of democracy,” Feijo said. “The fact that the president of the government intervenes in the Supreme Court is a sign of a lack of quality and democratic ethics.” And he believes parliament is “exhausted” after Mr Jantz announced that he would no longer support the government’s efforts in parliament. “The government’s efforts are over. All they have to do is fight it before the judges and torpedo the self-governing community.”
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