“An unbearable insult. Another one,” Alberto Núñez Feijó wrote this Thursday in a message to X (formerly Twitter). The leader of the PP regretted that the troops and state security forces had lost track of Carles Puigdemont in the center of Barcelona, for which Pedro Sánchez bears responsibility. The president returned to Catalonia on the day of the inauguration of Salvador Illa (PSC), gave a short speech on a small platform near Parliament, and on his way down, he lost track of him. The Mossos d’Esquadra activated a device for a few hours to locate and arrest him, but there was no luck.
Feijóo blames Sánchez for the disappearance of the independence leader. “It hurts to witness this delirium for which Pedro Sánchez is most responsible. It is unforgivable to damage the image of Spain in this way,” he said on social media. The Galician politician underwent surgery for a detached retina last week and is halfway between mandatory recovery and monitoring of political activity.
At around 2 p.m., at the PP’s central headquarters, the secretary general, Cuca Gamarra, appeared to analyze this episode starring Puigdemont. “We ask the government to put the means and the will so that the state forces and its security services can do their job,” he said in a statement, after which he refused to answer questions from the press. According to Gamarra, the president’s disappearance is “an insult approved and encouraged by Pedro Sánchez,” whom he accused of rolling out a “red carpet” “with the initials of the PSOE.”
The second man in the people denounced that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) did not monitor the leader of the Juntas and that the executive limited itself to “pointing at the obsessive, as if he had no responsibility in this matter”. Gamarra believes that the agreements that Sánchez has concluded with the pro-independence parties since 2018, when he arrived in Moncloa after a motion of no confidence, have returned Catalonia “to square one of the process” with an amnesty law and now an economic agreement aimed at solving the problem. “It breaks the solidarity between communities”.
Sources in the PP leadership have rejected any comparison between Puigdemont’s escape in 2017 and Mariano Rajoy’s in Moncloa. The president then fled to avoid arrest after the application of Resolution 155 and the dismissal of the entire Catalan executive. “Then there was no arrest warrant from the Supreme Court, as there is now, and no one could have imagined this decision. Now Puigdemont has given details of the day he will reappear and even the place. We have all seen it. The comparison makes no sense,” these sources say.
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The reaction of the regional leaders of the PP was consistent with that of Feijóo and Gamarra. The spokesman for the Madrid executive and advisor to the presidency, justice and interior, Miguel Angel García, condemned Puigdemont’s disappearance as “witchcraft or Sánchez’s art”. García demanded Sánchez’s resignation. For Juanma Moreno, president of the Andalusian Junta, Spain and the central government represent “international riots”.
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