• Senate Sánchez promises another 20,000 public housing because "now it is time to change the model" and Feijóo replies: "This is the miracle of the loaves and floors"

The fourth face-to-face between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo was marked, like the previous ones, by the angry tone that, progressively, acquired the debate in the Senate between the President of the Government and the leader of the opposition. Both, a month before the examination of the local and regional polls, confronted models in terms of housing, fiscal and environmental, mainly, but launched other messages that proved that the distance between the two main parties of this country, eight months for the generals, is sidereal.

More homes

It was the announcement on which Sánchez pivoted his appearance and, especially, his first comment: to the promise of 93,000 public housing for affordable rents the president added a package of 20,000 new buildings that will be built on land of the Ministry of Defense through the State Land Entity. The debate had a continuous aroma of housing, and Sánchez predicted that all autonomies, including popular ones, will comply and abide by the law that Congress will approve this Thursday.

NOD TO CEOE, CRITICISM OF FERROVIAL

The debate began in an economic key: Sánchez urged the CEOE to collectively negotiate a "definitive" increase in wages and criticized the transfer of Ferrovial's headquarters abroad to "evade taxes". Feijóo reproached him for his interventionist drift and promised to "repeal Sanchismo."

"THREE FACTIONS, TWENTY ACRONYMS"

Feijóo lashed out against the internal division of the Government and questioned Sánchez what he thought of his partners thinking that the PSOE is "the party of war", the one that "returns to the Penal Code of the Manada", the one that said that "Morocco is dictatorship" and Tezanos "a manipulator". "His government is broken into three factions and 20 acronyms. They insult each other in 'prime time' and are unable to agree anything, "launched the leader of the PP.

The absence in the 'yes is yes'

Feijóo tried to hurt the socialist bench with the conspicuous absence of the president in the vote on the reform of the yes is yes law. "I will vote tomorrow," launched the leader of the opposition, referring to the arrival of this modification this Wednesday in the Senate. "He has not asked for forgiveness with greatness, but with a small mouth," he said.

"A CHASCO"

Feijóo reproached how Sánchez reached the leadership of the PSOE without any experience and without transparency in the internal votes. "They upped you to cover up a corruption scandal," replied the president, who defended having reached the socialist general secretariat in a democratic way. "His jump into national politics has been a disappointment," Sánchez said. "I don't know if this is big for him or if it's far away."

"Calamitoso" and "peripatético"

Although sources on both sides considered that the debate was not angry, Feijóo and Sánchez exchanged harsh terms. The president of the Government came to describe the leader of the opposition as "calamitous" and "peripatetic" for the incident with the Latin telepreacher who recently participated in an act of the PP, parallel to the Ibero-American summit in which Sánchez participated.

Doñana, "electoral trigger"

One of the moments of more confrontation came when Feijóo claimed Sánchez not to use Doñana as an "electoral trigger" in order to wear down the PP. After a few seconds of reproaches by the socialist bench, the president of the PP responded: "I have not said it, Alfonso Guerra said it a few minutes ago." In Genoa they consider that Sánchez, by putting the Junta de Andalucía at the center of his attacks, shows that he has no arguments to debate effectively with Feijóo at the national level.

  • PP
  • PSOE
  • Senate
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Politics

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