Bendodo alleges that "talking to everyone" does not mean "swallowing everyone" and rejects "sectors" in PP about exploring Junts

He says that "dialogue, negotiate and agree are three phases" of the process that they intend to culminate in the election of Feijóo as Prime Minister

The general coordinator of the PP and national deputy for Malaga, Elías Bendodo, has assured this Friday about the negotiations that his party opens to promote the investiture of the president of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that "talking to everyone" does not mean "swallowing with everyone" and has rejected that there are "sectors" in the PP about exploring the path of dialogue with Junts. In this sense, he specified that "dialogue is not bad", convinced that "negotiating is one thing and agreeing is another".

At a press conference in Marbella (Málaga), Bendodo has maintained that "dialogue, negotiation and agreement are three phases" of this process that they intend to culminate in the election of Núñez Feijóo as Prime Minister, while he has pondered that "a candidate has the obligation to resort to parliamentary dialogue" because "dialogue is healthy and necessary".

"Talking to everyone does not mean that we are going to agree with everyone, it does not mean swallowing with everyone", he continued explaining about the borders of the dialogue that his party opens, to specify that "the red lines of the PP continue to be the same", and with which he has indicated Bildu as the only party that would be excluded from his exploratory talks.

Faced with repeated questions about whether this dialogue also includes Junts, Bendodo has appealed to "differentiate dialogue, negotiation, pact and agreement", to argue that "dialogue is necessary in the investiture", a scenario where he has specified that the candidate "proposes his government program", while he has reiterated that "courtesy must be produced", at the same time that he has maintained that "in the PP there are no sectors" when faced with the question of whether his party is divided on whether to explore the approach to together

Questioned whether in the negotiations with the PNV the Popular Party would agree to talk about the transfer of Social Security and with it pensions, the coordinator of the PP has responded that "we are far from at that stage" to reaffirm the argument of that, he has insisted, "in the parliamentary dialogue knowing what the red lines are and from there listening".

When asked about a hypothetical demand by the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, that the PSOE should go to Waterloo (Belgium) to negotiate with him, Bendodo assured that "if Puigdemont proposes that the PSOE go to Waterlo, the question will be should do to the PSOE, not to us".

In his initial intervention at the press conference, Bendodo has defended as an unwritten rule that "in the 45 years of our young democracy always, always, whoever has won the elections has always had the ability to form a government and the candidate to be president", before expressing his wish that "that is going to try to keep it that way.

With the premise that "the only constitutional government option is the one led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo", he has established three possible scenarios for the investiture of the candidate for the Presidency of the Government, the first of which would be "parliamentary blockade" since He has brandished that "the minority (parties) can block any investiture", before warning that "no one wants the repetition of the elections".

He then pointed out as a second scenario that "the party that has lost the elections wants to form a majority" to explain that "Pedro Sánchez could only confirm 152 yeses, Sumar's 31 and PSOE's 121" and inferred then that "Plan B it would be Sánchez and we already know that plan B is a botch job", before pointing out as a third hypothesis that "the Feijóo government alone, with only PP ministers, with dialogue and to recover the values ​​of the transition".

"Blockade, government of those who have lost or government alone of the PP", has summarized the situation.

"The worst option is a government of 24 parties: PSOE; Sumar, which is 18 parties; five pro-independence parties," argued Bendodo, who has stated that "it is impossible to govern by demanding amnesties, referendums", before deducing that "Spain has chosen the right path with the investiture of Feijóo".

Before recalling that "on Sunday the political course begins since Feijóo is president of our party, we return to Castillo de Soutomaior", he considered that "it is important" to know how to distinguish the procedural moment: "the King has mandated the PP candidate , President Feijóo, to expose his program in Congress", so that "one thing is the parliamentary dialogue that implies an investiture, one question is to negotiate and another to agree", before reiterating that "we will talk to everyone who wants to talk , you know our red lines".