Feijóo asks his political family for help against the amnesty: "Europe cannot allow a prime minister to obtain the investiture in exchange for judicial impunity" The Popular Party has been 'Europeanizing' the issue of amnesty since the beginning of autumn. In its Manifesto ahead of the European elections in June, the EPP makes the issue a pillar and a battering ram.

"The EPP is firmly committed to remaining the leading defender of the rule of law," says its document.