Alejandro Fernández (PP) "categorically" rules out negotiating an investiture with Puigdemont

He believes that Sánchez has responded "as if he were a 'teenager' on Twitter" to Feijóo's letter

BARCELONA, July 31. (EUROPEAN PRESS) -

The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, has "categorically" ruled out that the PP negotiates with the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont an investiture of the PP candidate for the presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijoo.

In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio this Monday picked up by Europa Press, he extended his refusal to Junts, by naming Puigdemont as his "top leader".

Fernández has considered that the statements in which the deputy secretary for Regional and Local Coordination of the PP, Pedro Rollán, was open to speaking with Junts within the Constitution, have been misinterpreted, and has described them as generic.

He has lamented that "Puigdemont himself is outside the terms" in which the 'popular' consider that a dialogue can be established.

The leader of the Catalan PP has accused the acting president of the Government and socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez, of responding "as if he were a 'teenager' on Twitter" to the letter in which Feijóo invited him to meet this week to avoid the blockade and ungovernability in Spain.

Sánchez has declined his invitation and has summoned him to meet after the constitution of the Cortes, as with the rest of the spokesmen for the parliamentary groups.

Fernández has advocated that Feijóo open talks with whoever he considers necessary to study investiture pacts, for which he believes that he is legitimized by having won the elections.

"It is evident that it is very complicated, at least no one can accuse him of not having tried," he opined, and although he has agreed that some political forces have ruled out the "popular" option, he has said that afterwards you never know.

He has described the result of the PP in Catalonia as unimaginable a few years ago and sees a considerable number of votes collected --more than 467,000--, more than ERC and Junts, he has highlighted, for which he has warned: "For us an electoral repetition It doesn't scare us."

He has defended that the agreements reached with Vox in regional and municipal governments "do not put absolutely anything at risk, no constitutional principle" and has said that the presence of 'popular' in executives is a guarantee of economic growth.