The president of PPdeG, Alfonso Rueda, has stated that Galicia is not going to "fail" the PP and that "it is going to be the engine of change" in the next general elections, making clear that he does not intend to "admit to life-savers who were coming from outside" in reference to Vox. "We are going to demand from you as much as from the most. You know that we demand and we know that Feijóo complies," the popular candidate warned.
During his speech at a rally held in the Fontes do Sar multi-purpose venue, in Santiago, in which he assured that there are "8,000 people," Rueda, who spoke before the PP candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, challenged the Socialists "to see if they are capable of filling it" next Wednesday at the event scheduled with the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
In an almost entirely Galician-language speech, Rueda predicted that Feijóo will be the next head of the central Executive and that "he is at his best moment when he had to be." He appealed to the "common sense" of Galicians and promised that "this machine called PPdeG is started up to be the engine of change in Spain."
"I tell all of Spain that the ones we know best are the ones who trust in him the most. I ask Spain to do the same; it is worth it and they are not going to regret it," he stressed. Next, he went after the eight years of "decadence" of the PSOE in Government, denouncing "corruption" and "lies that had no end." "We learned things that horrified us, that we thought could not be surpassed and that were surpassed the very next day," he lamented.
According to Rueda, the current central Executive is "directly harming Galicia" and he has demanded a Government that "values" the community. "We are not going to let them take things away from us to give them to others," he warned.
"We are not going to admit nationalists who think they have the exclusive on being Galicians," the leader of PPdeG reiterated, who insisted that they are also not going to "admit to life-savers," in reference to Vox, who "have been without representation for years."
At this point, he also directed criticism at the BNG, "so brave in Parliament" and "so tame in Congress," who "bow their heads when they get to Madrid." He demanded that people are not forced to choose "between Galicia and Spain": "We are Galicians and Spaniards, both things with pride and without complexes."
Tellado’s complaint and criticism of PSdeG
Rueda has taken advantage of his speech to back the “well placed” complaint filed by the PP’s secretary general, Miguel Tellado, against the PSdeG after the latter shared on its social networks a supposed photograph of him together with Koldo García and his lawyer. The image was later removed by the socialists, after Maldita.es verified that it had been generated with artificial intelligence.
The president of the PPdeG argues that the PSdeG is “the worst branch” of the socialists in Spain and considers that photograph a “symptom of decomposition,” while also opining that the socialists are “very lost.”
Diego Calvo launches an attack on sanchismo
Before Rueda’s intervention, the PP provincial president for A Coruña, Diego Calvo, has predicted that “sanchismo reaches its end” and has assured that the head of the Government “for being so ill-fated deserves to leave.” He has denounced that “there are days when there is more than one piece of corruption news,” to the point that, in his view, “they could make a Netflix series.”
“Enough already of so much indecency,” Diego Calvo has demanded, recalling that “there is an ex-minister in prison and another who has to resign because there were two accidents and more than 100 dead, and even at rallies we have to see that they chant his name because they say he was an example. Example of what?”. Among the audience, the popular Ana Pastor could be seen in a prominent place, who was Minister of Development at the time of the derailment of Angrois, in which 80 people died.
Fabiola García defends older people and immigrants
For her part, Fabiola García, the PP’s number 2 candidate for the province of A Coruña to the Congress, has accused the PSOE of “seeking to intimidate and to use” older people, which, she has stressed, “are far more clever than the socialists.”
García has also claimed the need to “clothe” and “support” those who “come from outside” and “come to work and contribute.” “Who contributes more, a Venezuelan, a Colombian, or a Dominican, who this very Wednesday of strike got up, early, pulled up the shutter of a business, and worked, or the CIG pickets who wanted to break his premises and threaten them? I’ll go with the Colombian, with the Dominican and with the Venezuelan,” she has concluded.