Feijóo puts a candle to God and another to the Devil
The PP political party has no leader because, during his nomination speech of the 20th PP Congress, Feijóo overdid Galician ambiguity, which is merely a way of lying to gain an advantage and lacks ideological leadership. PP is a party of people who applaud and has two ideologies: the social democratic Galician one (Rajoy, Feijóo) and the liberal one from Madrid (E. Aguirre, I. Ayuso). Rajoy and Feijóo detest liberals. In fact in 2008, Rajoy invited liberals to leave PP, and so VOX was born.
Feijóo did no name VOX, but implicitly accused it: we do not hand out membership cards to Spaniards or patriots; we are pro-European, pro-Regional Autonomies, pacifists, and the only alternative for change. This Galician statement is fallacious, arrogant and immoral. VOX criticising the EU for its immigration, energy or defence policies does not imply being Eurosceptic. Nor does criticising Regional Autonomies wasting political expenses with numerous public TV channels, multiplied by 17 replicated institutions where the official language (Spanish) is eliminated, imply being against Regional Autonomies. Although Feijóo’s speech is veiled, it is perverse, as is that of socio-communists, who classify any divergent as extreme rightwing. Feijóo lacks a unifying message and does a double deal: he lights a candle to God and another to the devil. Feijóo, like Rajoy and Casado, all want to return to a two-party system.
During his speech, he praised parasite trade unions CCOO and UGT that, with only 7% membership, manage huge training budgets and subsidies, and support separatist parties in exchange for subsidies. Feijóo is interested in consenting socialist trade unions as an alibi if an agreement with PSOE is reached, or if not, it does so to not have trade unions in the opposition, provided that subsidies awash them. However, Spaniards’ interests and those of Feijóo do not coincide. Ever since Zapatero arrived, PSOE has abandoned social democracy and adopted the philocommunist policies of the São Paulo Forum. Since then, another Galician (Rajoy) has expelled liberals and become social democrat with no values, with socialist taxes, maintained the State’s enormous size, and looked away from laws on gender, education or the Historical Memory Law. The same is expected of his disciple Feijóo.
The problem is that Spain’s situation is much more serious than Galician conveniences. Since 2004, public borrowing has increased 4-fold and reached 1.4 billion euros; the Spanish per capita income has remained at 23,800 euros; the cost of public payrolls has risen by 38%, but private ones have only gone up 8%; unemployment has increased 6%; 2 of every 3 euros are spent on paying public-political salaries; social tax payments (from payrolls) do no finance the pensions of 10 million pensioners; inflation almost doubles that of neighbours. So Spaniards are worse off and companies are less competitive. The disproportionate public sector means that high taxes must be paid, which thwarts any private initiative and means more unemployment. Financing debt will be worse with the announced rise in interest. Public and patronage expense is squandered, which would be easy to solve by amortizing pensions, but never lowers. Thousands of administration workers are unnecessary with digitisation; thousands of public classrooms are in excess given lowering birth rates; there are too many public universities with unemployed teachers; there are too many public TV channels.
Budgets include 120,000 million euros in subsidies. There will be barely any difference in support for VOX, PP and PSOE in the next General Elections. PSOE will be unable to govern with separatist and communist parties. If not done so already, PSOE and PP will reach an agreement, and will not support VOX if it is the most voted party because neither PSOE nor PP will accept VOX’s leader Abascal. If PP is the most voted party and VOX is a way behind it, Feijóo’s move will be for PP to govern VOX. Feijóo’s ambiguity allows him to govern in two different scenarios, but by betraying his voters, who will never expect a government supported by PSOE because it has never happened.
Post published in Las Provincias