{"id":52466,"date":"2023-07-21T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52466"},"modified":"2024-07-21T01:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:14:16","slug":"feijoo-still-doesnt-understand-why-vox-appeared-and-why-many-of-us-will-not-vote-for-the-pp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/21\/feijoo-still-doesnt-understand-why-vox-appeared-and-why-many-of-us-will-not-vote-for-the-pp\/","title":{"rendered":"Feij\u00f3o still doesn't understand why Vox appeared and why many of us will not vote for the PP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst things a politician can do is confuse his wishes with reality, because that leads him to persist in error.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/09\/an-analysis-of-the-pp-and-vox-programs-on-life-family-and-freedom-of-education\/\">An analysis of the PP and Vox programs on life, family and freedom of education<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/26\/the-words-of-santiago-abascal-about-the-weakest-and-feijoos-coldness\/\">The words of Santiago Abascal about 'the weakest' and Feij\u00f3o's coldness<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Feij\u00f3o's words in an interview in El Mundo<\/big><\/p>\n<p>That is the case of the current president of the Popular Party. Today the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/elecciones\/elecciones-generales\/2023\/07\/20\/64b960ad21efa0cf128b45a6.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Mundo publishes an interview with Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o<\/a> (you can read it in full <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9rHFV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) in which he states the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>I offer Vox voters to return home.<\/strong> And we are going to try to do it, at least, with a part of Vox. <strong>Why did Vox come about? Because left-wing populism arose and there was automatically a reaction on the other side<\/strong>, and because there was an attack on the unity of the nation that led to a lukewarmness from the PSOE and, therefore, an intense reaction from the electorate.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The real reasons why Vox emerged<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Although I am not affiliated with that party, <strong>I have been a Vox voter since its founding<\/strong>, and the first thing that occurs to me to tell Mr. Feij\u00f3o is that <strong>I have never abandoned my <em>home<\/em>: I have been publishing this website for 19 years<\/strong>, defending the same principles as when I started, especially the unity of Spain, the right to life, family, freedom of education, freedom of language and a limited State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Vox emerged, it is because the PP abandoned an important part of the principles it claimed to defend<\/strong>, disappointing many Spaniards who at some point have voted for that party. In my case, <strong>I stopped voting for the PP when<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2009\/12\/30\/feijoo-ha-mentido-libertad-no-significa-que-la-xunta-imponga-cuotas-en-tres-idiomas\/\">Feij\u00f3o betrayed his promise of linguistic freedom in Galicia<\/a>, in December 2009, yielding to the pressure of Galician nationalism. And I will say more: even if the PP presented me with a program that I could subscribe to, <strong>I would not vote for it again because I cannot trust someone who has already lied to me<\/strong>, and even less if it presents as a candidate for the presidency of the government who deceived me 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><big>The lukewarm attitude of the PP in the face of two attacks on the unity of Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In addition, we must remember that <strong>Vox emerged in January 2014, during a PP government with an absolute majority that decided to leave the ideological laws of the left intact<\/strong>, betraying its voters throughout Spain as it had already betrayed its voters in Galicia in 2009. But above all, <strong>it arose due to the lukewarm attitude of the PP in the face of two attacks on national unity in Catalonia, that of 2014 and that of 2017<\/strong>. The first of these began to take shape in October 2012, just before the regional elections in Catalonia that year.<\/p>\n<p>It is astonishing to read Feij\u00f3o attributing the appearance of Vox to the \"lukewarmness of the PSOE\" in the face of these attacks, when <strong>the party that governed in both cases was the PP, and it did so trying to appease separatism<\/strong>, to finally allow the 2017 coup and only react late and badly, when the coup had already been carried out. <strong>Could you expect a different reaction from Feij\u00f3o to attacks like these?<\/strong> I cannot guess the future, but I can remember what the president of the PP himself said.<\/p>\n<p><big>Feij\u00f3o's flirtation with the separatists in Galicia and Catalonia<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The newspaper libraries are there and they are very clear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/02\/01\/si-feijoo-no-es-nacionalista-como-explica-todas-las-cosas-que-aparecen-en-este-video\/\">In 2014, Feij\u00f3o said that Galicia, like Catalonia, was a \"nation without a state\"<\/a>, and this while one of the aforementioned attacks against national unity was underway . A few years ago, in a Galician Television program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/02\/01\/si-feijoo-no-es-nacionalista-como-explica-todas-las-cosas-que-aparecen-en-este-video\/\">he said (you can see the video here)<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>I have much more to do with a BNG militant, that a BNG militant with a Bildu militant<\/strong>\"<\/em>, forgetting, perhaps, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/nacional\/noticia-erc-bng-eh-bildu-presentan-coalicion-ahora-republicas-europeas-junqueras-cabeza-lista-20190220211920.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the BNG is Bildu's partner in Galicia<\/a>. Along the same lines, last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/espana\/2022\/09\/16\/632381a2fdddffa2908b45d2.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feij\u00f3o supported the PP adopting a Catalanist line in Catalonia<\/a>, and this week, in an interview in La Vanguardia, <a hr ef=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Euzpi#selection-1849.29-1849.32\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has defended that it take the place of the CiU nationalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The betrayal of the PP to the defense of life<\/big><\/p>\n<p>But of all the betrayals by the PP in general, and by Feij\u00f3o in particular, of conservative principles, the worst of all is <strong>his betrayal of the defense of life<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/10\/un-obispo-espanol-la-traicion-del-pp-a-la-causa-de-la-vida-es-total-y-absoluta\/\">openly denounced by Bishop Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Munilla<\/a> and embodied in an electoral program in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/09\/an-analysis-of-the-pp-and-vox-programs-on-life-family-and-freedom-of-education\/\">the PP does not contemplate repealing either the abortion law or the euthanasia law<\/a>, two of the worst attacks on human life that we have carried out in Spain in decades.<\/p>\n<p><big>My reasons for never voting for the PP again<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I cannot return to the house of the PP to which Feij\u00f3o refers because <strong>my house has never been the house of the culture of death<\/strong>, nor the house of lukewarmness, nor the house of betrayal of electoral promises, <strong>nor the house of submission to the ideological dogmas of the left, nor the house of linguistic nationalism<\/strong> (which is what Feij\u00f3o promoted in my land after having promised us the linguistic freedom) nor the house of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/27\/asi-es-como-el-pp-adoctrina-en-la-ideologia-de-genero-a-ninos-en-los-colegios-de-galicia\/\">the gender ideology imposed by Feij\u00f3o in Galician schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot place my trust in the PP because <strong>the PP is a party that I find unvotable, and I want to vote conscientiously<\/strong>, supporting a party that agrees with my principles, with those principles that the PP has betrayed. <strong>That is why I will vote for Vox.<\/strong> And if Vox ceased to exist, I would again vote blank, which was my choice between Feij\u00f3o's betrayal in 2009 and the appearance of Vox in 2014. <strong>The PP deceived me once: never again.<\/strong> I cannot vote for a party and a politician who already lied to me once, and who is <strong>turning the PP into a clone of the PSOE <\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/11\/the-feijoos-infamous-offer-to-sanchez-in-a-rigged-debate-to-hide-an-alternative\/\">even going so far as to offer S\u00e1nchez a pact to continue in La Moncloa<\/a> if the PP gets fewer votes than the PSOE, although the sum of PP and Vox exceeds the absolute majority. <strong>S\u00e1nchez votes for you, Feij\u00f3o.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/53059499498\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst things a politician can do is confuse his wishes with reality, because that leads him to persist in 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