Bravo (PP) believes that Illa's position for a referendum in Catalonia is a first step on the "path" to a referendum

Call on Page to go beyond criticizing Sánchez and try to "stop" changes to the Penal Code

MADRID, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP Deputy Secretary of Economy, Juan Bravo, pointed out this Wednesday that the favorable position of the PSC leader and former Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, to a self-government consultation in Catalonia "points something" on "the road" to a referendum.

Bravo has been wary of the PSOE saying that there will not be a vote on independence and has emphasized the words of the spokesperson for the Catalan Government, Patrícia Plaja, who yesterday downplayed Moncloa's refusal to hold a referendum in Catalonia be used to being told 'no' at first.

In statements to Antena 3 that Europa Press has collected, the PP leader recalled that the Pedro Sánchez government said that it would not pardon the leaders of the 'procés' or reform the crimes of sedition and embezzlement, but it has ended up doing so.

Asked about the referendum, Bravo has indicated that "even Illa is already pointing something in that direction" by confessing in an interview that there will be a consultation with the Catalans, although not for self-determination.

"Obviously, the situation we have in Spain now is worse than when Sánchez arrived, we have gone back, we are again facing a situation of some difficulty for all Spaniards," Bravo immediately criticized.

And regarding the criticism of the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, to the embezzlement reform, the PP deputy secretary has highlighted that it is not only Page who is against this initiative accepted by Sánchez, but also the President of Aragon, Javier Lambán, as well as the former President of the Government Felipe González and his former Vice President Alfonso Guerra.

"It's not just Page, it's Lambán, González or Guerra, there are many within the PSOE," said Bravo, who has demanded that criticism "cannot remain in words", since when someone knows that they have a "strong " in the game, he has to "prove it".

For Bravo, demonstrating it is "trying to stop" this reform of the Criminal Code, which Page himself "acknowledges" that "harms" the Spanish. "As he said, it is what it is, what you see, and what you would have to ask is that they stop Sánchez, tell him that we have come this far and change, because if not what he is doing is serious damage to the whole of the Spaniards", has summoned him.