The former president of the Government and honorary president of the PPdeG, Mariano Rajoy, defended this Monday in Mos (Pontevedra) the need to finally achieve the change that Spain “needs” to “recover normality” after an Executive “that never deserved to be so”.
He said this during his address at a meal with close to 200 businesspeople from the Vigo metropolitan area, held at the Multiusos das Pozas in Mos, where he was backed, among others, by the provincial president of the PP, Luis López, and by the top candidates for Congress and the Senate for the province, Julio García Comesaña and Nidia Arévalo.
Rajoy has shown concern about the current situation in the country, which he described as “the darkest period” of recent history. “No one could even imagine that what we are experiencing could happen,” he censured.
In this vein, he has insisted on the relevance of “changing” the central Government because, in his view, “with this people, nothing is possible”. From there, he outlined five priorities to tackle the situation.
The first, he said, is to replace the current Government. The second is to form an Executive “that can govern,” noting that Spain has had no new budgets since 2022.
As a third priority, Rajoy demanded recovering democratic quality and launched attacks against “anti-democratic” assaults on the judiciary coming from the Government itself.
Fourth, he demanded bringing an end to polarization and the rift between Spaniards, “fostered by the Government of Spain” and used as a “political strategy”.
“Something is regrettable,” he emphasized, evoking the major agreements between parties in the past that set the “rules of the game” in areas such as defense policy or foreign policy.
Lastly, his fifth priority is “govern,” something he considers “basic” but, as he has lamented, is currently blurred among “entanglements”.
General strike and criticism of the unions
The former president has also spoken out about the general strike called for next Wednesday, which he described as “the costliest event of the election campaign” and whose cost, he warned, will fall on citizens and on small and medium-sized businesses, “who do not deserve this joke at this point”.
In his view, it is a strike promoted by unions against the opposition. “That’s the kind of innovation that Spain needs,” he joked ironically.
He has also recalled that, in the first six months after his arrival at La Moncloa, he faced two general strikes, while the unions have not called any against Pedro Sánchez.
Rajoy has highlighted the 50 years of the PP’s record, a party that, he has assured, is "prepared" to govern because "it’s not just a leader or a gang."
Mos’s event has been one of the four appointments that the former president has headlined today in Galicia, where it is usual for him to take an active part in party events during pre-election periods.
During the morning he has taken a walk through Ourense and in the afternoon he is scheduled to go to Marín and Cambados to meet with PP supporters.
Support from the candidates and message to business owners
For his part, Comesaña has claimed the key role of business owners and self-employed workers as the "engine" of the province, underlining that behind every company "there is much more than an economic activity," since there are "ideas, investments, concerns and, above all, people, workers, families and opportunities."
However, he has warned about the obstacles that companies currently face, such as bureaucracy, increased costs, uncertainty, or tax pressure.
In this context, he has pointed out that the State’s tax revenue in the province increased by 70% in the last seven years, to 3,494 million in 2025. "How is all that increased revenue translating into real improvements for the province?" he asked, defending the project of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, aimed at offering "stability, simplifying procedures and easing the tax burden."
Arévalo has expressed himself in similar terms, who has stressed that citizens are "fed up and tired" of broken promises, lies, corruption, scandals, and the wear and tear on institutions. "That’s enough of corruption, privileges and abuses," proclaimed Mos’s mayor as well. In his view, on November 29 the PP "will sweep" the PSOE out of Government.
"The PP’s broom, of the democracy that’s going to sweep away socialism," he defended, convinced that "at last" there is the real option to remove Pedro Sánchez from power.
Arévalo thanked the presence of the business owners attending, whom he defined as the "engine" of the Vigo metropolitan area. He also claimed the "legacy" of Rajoy, whom he described as the "best President of Democracy."