The president of the PP of Extremadura, María Guardiola, has emphasized that Spain urgently needs “a change” and that the appointment of next November 29 represents a key opportunity to recover “confidence and democratic and institutional normality” that, in her view, the country has lost.
During a visit to Talavera de la Reina, in which she was accompanied by the president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, Guardiola wanted to send out a “message of hope” and defended that “the change” is feasible, recalling that it already took place in Extremadura.
“In Extremadura a little more than three years ago they told us that it was impossible. that the Partido Popular would never govern there. And we are doing it, and the people are very happy,” she said.
The also president of the Junta indicated that her Executive is offering “a response to the needs of citizens,” and expressed confidence that what happened in Extremadura in 2023 will be repeated across Spain next November 29 and in Castilla-La Mancha with Paco Núñez’s project in May 2027.
“What people need in this country is a government that governs, that truly cares about their problems and about meeting their needs,” Guardiola said, who also warned that “we have a government that cannot go out onto the street.”
Guardiola stressed that “eight long years of ‘sanchismo’” are piling up, the last four without the General State Budgets, which, in her opinion, shows a government “completely adrift that has abandoned the autonomous communities,” especially, she said, those administered by the Partido Popular.
Likewise, she emphasized that the PP has “a great country project” led by the “best possible candidate,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and by a “model that works and is a model that has already been approved,” the same one that is being applied “successfully” in eleven autonomous communities and in two autonomous cities.
It is a model that is also developed “successfully” in Extremadura and, as she highlighted, has shown that “you can lower taxes and you can create jobs, create wealth, you can strengthen the economy, public services.” “We are governing for everyone, governing without pitting one against the other, without lying and without using institutions as a private fief,” she said.
Funeral in Toledo for the victims of Urda
On the other hand, the president of the PP has expressed her “utmost absolute respect” for and support of the families of the victims of the Urda railway tragedy, whom she will accompany this afternoon at the funeral that will be held in the Cathedral of Toledo together with His Majesty the King.
“There we are going to be, showing our utmost absolute respect and supporting them in their pain,” she said. Finally, Guardiola has criticized the absence of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and has stressed that a president “has to be up to the circumstances.”
“There is no reasonable or logical excuse for not being here today where he has to be, which is accompanying, in his pain, the families of the victims,” he concluded.