Members of Sumar and candidates of Frente Amplio for the November 29 elections have denounced this Tuesday that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, feels "panic" before what the streets may express next November 11, the date on which the general strike is called, and have urged him to withdraw his "dirty" hands from the trade union organizations.
These statements come as a response to Feijóo's words at the Europa Press Informative Breakfasts, where he asked the unions to "reconsider" the general strike "against the opposition" and stated that, if before it was already "incomprehensible," after the Urda (Toledo) accident it is "a serious mistake".
The deputy of Comuns Gerardo Pisarello has underscored that the proposed general strike is directed against those who "precarize" employment and against the "speculators" in the housing sphere, as well as against the cuts and problems that affect other public services, among them rail transport".
Criticism of the PP's economic strategy
In his opinion, the demand to call off the strike reflects Feijóo's "panic" that the citizenry may express "massively" in the street that it rejects a Government that intends to "apply the chainsaw of (Javier) Milei" to public services, and that, on the contrary, calls for "a political alternative clearly committed to safeguarding access to transport, food and energy".
In a similar line, the deputy of Compromís, Alberto Ibáñez, has censured Feijóo for asking to stop the strike and has demanded of him "that he take his dirty hands off the representatives" of the workers and that he "stop manipulating them and attacking them". In his view, the economic plan of the 'populars' is based on "cutting" trade union freedom, blocking the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) and "privatizing" pensions.
Feijóo's authority and Ayuso's role
Also speaking about the strike and Feijóo's position was the deputy of Más Madrid Tesh Sidi, who considers that the PP president is the leader "with the least authority" to lecture the unions, recalling that he voted against the royal decrees on housing.
Even so, Sidi maintains that "the best campaign" for the left is for Feijóo to "keep making a mess" with this type of message, which she attributes to the fact that "he is copying the strategy from Mrs. Díaz Ayuso" to center the debate on his latest "nonsense" and not on his management model or on what his national project is.
"If it were up to Feijóo, strikes would end, demonstrations would end, the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI, the right to euthanasia and the right to abortion", the Sumar deputy has noted, lamenting that the 'popular' leader had missed the opportunity to "extend a hand" to the unions and to the citizenry that is calling for a reduction in rental prices or that denounces that all of the salary goes down the "drain" of housing.