The general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has described the general strike of 11N as "an electoral strike, not "really general"", stressing that, in his view, it is called "against the next government of Spain, stirred up by the current government".
Along the same lines, he has pointed out that there is "a crisis of representativeness" in trade union organizations and that they "are more concerned about the subsidy they receive from the government" than about other matters. He said this this Monday in an interview on the program 'Es la Mañana de Federico', on esRadio, as reported by Europa Press.
Tellado has underscored that "there hasn’t been any reason during the last eight years for the unions, defending workers’ rights, to have gone out onto the street, but they haven’t. During these two terms of a socialist government, the unions have been silent, silent in complicity with everything that was happening in our country".
Defense of the pact with Vox in the Senate
In another matter, he has backed the agreement reached with Vox in the Upper House for the elections to the Senate on 29 November, which he has described as "a democratic obligation" in view of the decision by left-wing parties to "completely dilute their acronyms". As he has argued, this is "a formula for collaboration to maximize the result that the right may be able to achieve in the Senate after the vote count".
"Explained clearly, the PP does not stand in three, Vox does not stand in six and, in fourteen more provinces, Vox only puts up one senator," he specified. In his view, this agreement was an obligation "in the face of the left’s stratagems" to "try to confuse left-wing voters and prevent a right-wing majority".
When asked about the weight of the majority in the Senate, Tellado has argued that Sánchez "stands for the presidency of the Government knowing that he is going to lose the elections". He added that his "last resort" and "political and electoral goal" is to move toward the 100 seats in Congress, "entrench themselves there" and use the Senate as "an instrument to sabotage the legislative action of the next Government of Spain".
Criticism of the grandparents law and of the Government
In relation to the law of grandchildren, the Popular Party leader has maintained that "the Government has not achieved what it intended, which was to massively falsify the electoral roll, not so that the descendants of Spaniards who live there vote, but simply to have a greater margin of maneuver in order to try to falsify the final outcome".
He has reiterated that "the Supreme Court has acted" and that the Electoral Board has done so as well, and he has insisted that it is necessary to be "especially vigilant", because "whoever cheats once tries to do it again, and Sánchez is the quintessential cheat".
Ceuta, immigration and RTVE
Regarding the situation in Ceuta, he has assured that the enclave "has suffered an invasion consented to by the government of the nation". He has accused the Executive that "it has been unable to make itself respected by the government of Morocco, by the king of Morocco" and he has argued that the PP has protected Ceuta's interests in European institutions "more than Pedro Sánchez has done".
On migration matters, he has explained that the PP has registered a national immigration plan that "perfectly" "connects" with the EU's migration policy and he has reiterated that those who enter irregularly "must be rejected", as, he indicated, Community regulations at the border allow.
Lastly, when asked about the PP's plans for RTVE if it were to reach the Executive, Tellado pointed out that "public radio and television needs an exercise of cleaning, of neutrality, and that respects political debate" in Spain. "I think today that does not happen in any of the programmes that are broadcast," he concluded.