The PP urges Sánchez to choose "between Europe and its partners" and between "Montero and Iglesias" before sitting down to talk about the Budgets

The Popular Party awaits. It is waiting to know the direction that the Government will take in the coming weeks , to take decisions and define its strategy in relation to the next political challenge that the legislature will have to face: the approval of some General State Budgets that guarantee stability. and especially the arrival of multimillion-dollar European aid funds.

The chances that the PP will end up supporting some State accounts that are not even outlined, are more than remote. Even so, the popular demand, to start testing the ground, that Pedro Sánchez clarify his intentions and this involves choosing "between Europe or its partners" and between the position more open to the pacts that the Minister of Finance has expressed, María Jesús Montero, or that of veto and exclusion maintained by the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias.

This was explained by the PP's general secretary, Teodoro García Egea, after the party's Steering Committee meeting chaired by Pablo Casado. A meeting in which the popular leadership has been ratified in the conviction of being the "only alternative" to the "lousy management of Sánchez" both economically and in what affects the coronavirus crisis, and in which conspired in the objective of "expanding the base" of training by uniting the "maximum possible number of Spaniards" under the umbrella of their proposals. A line of argument that has already been defended this week by the spokeswoman in Congress , Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, at the PP summer school.

García Egea has assured that the PP has always had the "outstretched hand" to reach agreements and recalled the "eleven pacts of the State" that Pablo Casado has offered to Sánchez, receiving in response "silence and depreciation". And it has put as proof of this attitude the support given by the popular to two of the four opinions of the Commission of Reconstruction , the one of health and the one of European policy; a support that, he recalled, has been decisive for both documents to succeed.

"The hand is outstretched," he insisted, "except when it is a question of ruining the economy. So they don't count on us." And it is that the feelings of the PP regarding the future project of Budgets are not good. They start from the conviction that the Government of Pedro Sánchez is "the most sectarian and radical of democracy" and, also, "the weakest". A cocktail of attributes that results, in the opinion of the popular, the attacks "on Justice, the press and the Crown" that some members of the Executive lavish and that are not stopped by the President.

The PP is now pleased that, with the agreement reached in the EU to deal with massive money aid to the Covid crisis, " Europe has tied Sánchez short." They believe that community partners "have said yes to Spain and no to Sánchez's partners and their policy." And they wonder who the "Prime Minister will betray before": "His partners or Europe?"

Thus, before ruling on the party's willingness to sit down to discuss future state accounts, the PP general secretary requires the government to clarify "which of the two versions" is the one that represents it: that of the head of Treasury or that of the second vice president. The first has opted for the willingness to agree with all political forces and build the Budgets "of unity"; the second has assured that his presence in the Government makes any pact with the PP "incompatible".

In any case, a warning has already been issued from Genoa: "They cannot count on us to throw everything overboard." This is a clear allusion to the fierce opposition that the party will maintain to any attempt by the Executive to launch what they call "a counter-reformist agenda" whose first step would be the repeal of the labor reform.

García Egea took advantage of his speech to the press after the Steering Committee meeting, to demand from Pablo Iglesias "explanations" about his alleged charges from Iran, disclosed today by EL MUNDO and about the bizarre history of the theft of his mobile phone. former adviser Dina Bousselham. "A vice president who manages the lives of millions of people and who is investigated by the police must explain or apply her own medicine and resign," she said.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• PP
• Pablo Iglesias
• Pablo Casado
• Teodoro García Egea
• State's general budgets
• Pedro Sánchez
• Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo
• Coronavirus

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