Feijóo reminds the PSOE that the minister Jordi Sevilla has already proposed letting the most voted in the municipal elections govern

Notify the Socialist Party that if it does not agree to this proposal and does not comply with it, it cannot later ask the others to do so

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has warned the PSOE this Tuesday that if it does not agree to agree that the most voted list govern in the municipal elections, do not ask the other parties to comply with that proposal later. In addition, he has reminded the socialists that the former socialist minister Jordi Sevilla already made a similar proposal on the most voted list and has stressed that the criticisms that have been launched at him from the Government prove that Pedro Sánchez "is worth governing with everything and with everyone loses, wins or half pensioner".

In statements to the media after participating in the Executive Committee of the Network for the Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion in the Spanish state (EAPN-ES), Feijóo has defended his proposal to allow the government with the most votes after the elections of 28 May alleging that it is "honest" that before those elections the PP puts on top that he can "govern whoever wins".

"We propose that you agree to it to maintain a balance. If you agree to it and we want to agree to it, then the Spanish will know very well who they can vote for. Now, if you do not agree to it and do not comply with it, you will not be ask others to comply with what you do not comply with," he warned.

When asked about the discomfort that this proposal has caused in some territories and about the words of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, about the fact that she would prefer a second round, Feijóo has assured that "everything that is specified that whoever wins governs " seems good to him.

Thus, he stressed that "there are countries in which there is a second round, there are countries where there is a plus for the list with the most votes (Italy or Greece) and there are other countries where the list with the most votes automatically governs in the city councils", such as the model Portuguese.

The president of the PP has affirmed that his party has confined this proposal of legal reform to the city councils and has added that "in the rest", in reference to the autonomic or the general ones, there are "more difficulties". However, he has said that "it can also be done by agreement, without the need for legal reform."

Having said this, he has indicated that in the central government "it was always like this" because from Adolfo Suárez to José María Aznar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero or Mariano Rajoy "the most voted list governed without the need for an agreement."

"It would be good for this agreement of 44 years of democracy to continue in force in the next legislature. But I already anticipate that we have to be hard and thick, if the PSOE wants to, we want to," he added, to insist that if that pact were to take place, the PP would be "coherent" with it.

Faced with criticism from the PSOE against his proposal, Feijóo recalled that "a short time ago", in 2005 and 2007, with "much more solvent ministers" than those of the current government, a similar proposal was proposed for the local administration. "I am very surprised that the Socialist Party insults PSOE ministers from other times," he stressed.

Thus, the head of the opposition has assured that he does not believe that the proposal that Jordi Sevilla formulated at the time when he was Minister of Public Administration in the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was "a joke" or "nonsense".

"I am used to saying that the PP talks nonsense but that their PSOE colleagues also consider them illiterate. It seems to me that it is an accreditation that the Government is a little out of place and, above all, the Government accredits that it is worth governing lose, win or half a pensioner with everything and everyone", he emphasized.

Feijóo has stressed that the PP's institutional quality plan includes a total of 60 points, not only the one from the most voted list, because it is a "bet on democratic regeneration" that it will fulfill if it reaches the Moncloa Palace. "All these proposals are full of political commitment and a commitment to regeneration," he stated.

As he explained, his objective is "to try to improve the independence of state regulatory bodies" and "to try not to confuse the government with state institutions." He has also stressed that they want to "depoliticize" the General Council of the Judiciary and "put the best in the Public Prosecutor's Office, in the Council of State, in the National Institute of Statistics, in the Center for Sociological Research and in the National Intelligence Center ".

The leader of the PP has indicated that, although the focus has only been placed on one proposal -the one related to the most voted list-, if they agree on the other 59 proposals of their regeneration plan it would be "without a doubt a great Advance".