'Génova' confirms up to three calls from the Government to Gamarra and Sémper, who convey the PP's "no" to the decrees

He says that the Government "can avoid new calls" to ask for support if it is not going to accept their demands in the anti-crisis decree

MADRID, 8 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The national leadership of the PP has confirmed this Monday that there have been up to three calls from the Government to the first opposition party to request its support for the decrees that must be validated this Wednesday in the Plenary of Congress, although both Cuca Gamarra and Borja Sémper They have conveyed the "no" of the Popular Group because they are not going to "help" the head of the Executive.

What's more, he stressed that the Government "can avoid new calls" to ask for support if it is not going to accept their demands in the anti-crisis decree.

Sources from Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team have indicated that, once the Government "has decided to inform the media of contacts with the leadership of the PP", the PP has indicated that there have been "up to three informal calls with members of the Executive".

Thus, PP sources have indicated that the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, telephoned the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, on this Sunday afternoon and added that "they have spoken again today ".

In the same way, the 'popular' have assured that the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has called the spokesperson and deputy secretary of Culture, Borja Sémper. "Both Gamarra and Sémper reaffirmed the PP's decision to vote 'no' to the three decrees that will be voted on Wednesday," the same sources added.

The PP has explained that the Government called the PP "to ask, not to offer." "And the main party in Spain will not help Pedro Sánchez in case his partners fail him the day after tomorrow," more cited sources have stated.

The 'popular' have recalled that the PP requested a meeting two weeks ago with the first and third vice presidents of the Government but both María Jesús Montero and Teresa Ribera rejected it "in a rude manner", according to the 'popular'.

"Now it seems that the Government's emergencies produce a sudden interest in the position of the Popular Party," they added, alluding to Junts' refusal to support the three decrees that will go to Congress on Wednesday: one related to anti-crisis measures, the relative to the digitalization of Justice and urgent measures to reconcile family and professional life.

From 'Génova' they have indicated that the PP remains open to the possibility of studying an abstention in the royal decree-law of economic measures in the event that the Government accepts its three demands: Deflate the personal income tax rate for people with lower incomes at 40,000 euros; lower VAT on meat, fish and preserves; and reconsider the increase in VAT on electricity and gas, especially for the lowest incomes.

"If it is not to acquire this commitment, they can avoid new calls to request our support," said sources from the PP, who have criticized that the Government now reveals the contacts with the PP when it did not report last week on the meeting held by the Head of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, with the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull.

This morning, at an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has already anticipated his party's "no" to the three decrees that will be voted on Wednesday, alleging that they are not going to "fix" Pedro Sánchez's "internal problems of the misrule".

"Pedro Sánchez maintains his Government on himself, the objectives of the independence movement and nothing for the rest of the Spaniards. And that becomes unsustainable for Spain for four years. We are facing a leap into the void. And before that leap into the void that Spain, this country has two security networks," Feijóo proclaimed when presenting the conference by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda.