Maroto denies that in the PP there has been talk of holding a congress soon to reinforce Feijóo

He trusts in the support of Vox and regrets that Puigdemont "laughs out loud all over Spain" thanks to Sánchez

MADRID, 18 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The first vice president of the Senate, Javier Maroto, of the PP, has denied this Friday that the party has considered holding a congress in the coming months to internally reinforce its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, given the difficulty of being president of the Government after the generals. "In no case", he has sentenced.

Maroto has reacted in this way when asked about information that Feijóo met yesterday with party leaders at the Genoa 13 headquarters to convey discomfort to them because he did not know that Vox was not going to support the 'popular' Cuca Gamarra to be president congressional.

"In no case has there been talk of an ordinary congress or an extraordinary Popular Party congress for the coming months. Matter settled, that issue was not discussed, it is a lie," Maroto assured in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, although he has acknowledged that he did not participate in the meeting because he was in the Senate until the evening.

Maroto has expressed that the supposed debate on congresses "does not make any sense at this time", since the president's team works "very united" and Feijóo "likes to listen" to "jointly analyze and make decisions and explain them".

In his opinion, the news would be that there were no meetings and he has indicated that there are "every day" to analyze issues about the party and those that affect the country.

Maroto has criticized that the acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is capable of placing the governance of the country in the hands of a "fugitive from justice" and considers that the former Catalan president and Junts MEP, Carles Puigdemont, "is laughing laughing at all of Spain".

"Sánchez pays, with everyone's money, the independentistas to stay in power. That is not governing, it is resisting," Maroto reproached, to recall that the Popular Party won the elections and believes that, from the PSOE, Sánchez he tries to "cover up his defeat". "It is unprecedented and bizarre" and "he has lost respect for his party", he has maintained.

On the other hand, the 'popular' has stated that his party "has the obligation", as the winner of the elections, to avoid a Sánchez government and an electoral repetition, for which Feijóo wants to present himself for the investiture, because "the agreements are on the table and there are four votes left until an absolute majority".

On whether he believes that Vox will continue to support the PP in the face of an investiture after their disagreement in the constitutive session of Congress, Maroto has separated him and has stated that Santiago Abascal's party has not "repudiated" the public statement where he explained that he would lend his votes for Feijóo "without asking for anything in return and without entering the Government".

Regarding the use of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the Parliament, Maroto has indicated that for the PP respect for the official languages ​​is "maximum", but from "common sense".

"Putting simultaneous translation in a room where we all share a language is not common sense", he pointed out, to warn that it will entail an "enormous" cost, as well as a "great slowdown of the process".

The senator has recognized that the different languages ​​are a very important part of the country's diversity, although he wanted to emphasize that languages ​​are made "to understand each other, not to attack."

"The independentistas want to use Catalan as an imposition", has recriminated Maroto, who has taken the opportunity to criticize that the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, forgot the Valencian, which is part of the linguistic "wealth" but which "never" has meant "a problem or imposition in the community".