Feijóo's promises and a misleading headline: what the president of the PP actually stated

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Ok Diario says Feijóo is committed to repealing “all the laws of Sanchism”

Yesterday, Ok Diario published an interview by Eduardo Inda with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The title of the interview attributes these words to the president of the Popular Party: "I am going to repeal all of the laws of Sanchism 1,000%." Many will have been pleased to read these words. Not me. On April 1st, I explained here the PP betrayed its promises of change with Rajoy's government and Feijóo was one of those who supported that betrayal on the most important issue of all: the protection of the right to life.

In February I also explained here the deception that Feijóo deceived many of us Galicians who voted for him in 2009 by keeping his electoral promise of "linguistic freedom," a promise he broke nine months after winning those elections. Since then I haven't voted for the PP again. I refuse to vote for a party that deceives its voters.

What Feijóo didn't say in those words: what he actually said

The curious thing about that interview is that you only have to read it to see that Feijóo didn't even say what Ok Diario attributes to him with that quote. In that interview, Eduardo Inda asked the PP president: "Will they get rid of this government's legislative atrocities?"

Feijóo's response was emphatic, but he then added a very important nuance: "Of course. All those with which we disagree and we have already said so." Once again, the PP now has an excuse for not repealing the Socialists' greatest legislative aberrations, starting with the worst of all: let us remember that in 2023, Feijóo boasted that the PP did not repeal the 2010 abortion law, which turned the act of killing the most innocent and defenseless into a "right."

Feijóo talks about repealing a law like the one the PP left intact in the Balearic Islands

After receiving that response, Inda asked: "Practically 100%?" In his new response, Feijóo went off on a tangent about ETA and the law of democratic memory, saying that "it must be repealed." Another lie. Let us remember that in December 2024, the PP voted against the repeal of the Balearic Islands' democratic memory law, established by the socialists in 2018. The PP made that decision after a pact with the left, in exchange for receiving their support to eliminate the 34 Vox amendments approved in error in an administrative simplification decree. Four months later and with absolute shamelessness, Feijóo is throwing the bait again, to see how many people bite.

In the following question, Inda insisted: "100%?" In his response, Feijóo cites the figure that appears in the headline, but not the rest of the sentence: "1,000%. And we cannot accept what has been done against the independence of the powers of the State, the interpretations that the Congress of Deputies is making against traditional classical parliamentarism, in which Congress votes on what it votes on."

Feijóo does not speak at any point about repealing all of the Sanchism laws. In fact, he has no intention of doing so, as he already made clear in 2023. Let us remember that in the last general elections, the PP's program only included repealing one of the socialist ideological laws, the law of democratic memory. A law like the one that the PP has left intact in the Balearic Islands, after reaching an agreement with the left.

A politician whose word is worthless

I've been denouncing for many years (since that 2009 electoral deception) that Feijóo is a liar, a politician whose word is worthless, a guy who believes anything goes to win an election, even deceiving his voters by promising things he has no intention of doing, as he did with the Galicians 16 years ago. Despite this, and as we saw once again yesterday, there are media outlets that insist on trying to sell Feijóo to us as someone willing to make a big change, a politician who intends to repeal all of Sánchez's ideological laws, even though Feijóo himself doesn't even claim that.

Please stop deceiving people. Feijóo will only change a law if he lacks an absolute majority and depends on another party to govern, and that other party forces him to make changes. As of today, only Vox is raising issues that the PP insists it doesn't want to change where it governs. Anyone who believes that giving the PP an absolute majority will see the repeal of socialist ideological laws will end up with a disappointment like the one many Galicians suffered in 2009 and the one many Spaniards suffered a few years later with Rajoy.

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