{"id":57163,"date":"2024-09-20T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57163"},"modified":"2024-09-22T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T05:03:00","slug":"feijoo-meloni-and-the-groucho-marxism-of-the-popular-party-with-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/20\/feijoo-meloni-and-the-groucho-marxism-of-the-popular-party-with-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Feij\u00f3o, Meloni and the Groucho Marxism of the Popular Party with immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with principles and who act guided by opportunism or mere personal interest are one of the great scourges of politics.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/12\/vox-and-something-important-that-we-had-almost-forgotten-that-a-politician-could-do\/\">Vox and something important that we had almost forgotten that a politician could do<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/10\/the-great-favor-of-all-the-spanish-parties-except-vox-to-the-illegal-immigration-mafias\/\">The great favor of all the Spanish parties except Vox to the illegal immigration mafias<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, the national president of the Popular Party (PP) of Spain, <b>Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, met with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni<\/b>. Regarding this meeting, the PP website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pp.es\/actualidad-noticia\/feijoo-pide-dar-maxima-relevancia-politica-migratoria-ue-no-es-un-asunto\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has pointed out<\/a> that Feij\u00f3o said that his party <em>\"will be absolutely respectful of regular immigration, but <strong>\u201cforceful\u201d with irregular immigration to prevent mafias that traffic people from being able to use them to do business<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feij\u00f3o acknowledged that <strong>the Italian government's proposals <em>\"have resulted in Italy reducing irregular immigration by 60%<\/strong>, while Spain has increased it by the same percentage\"<\/em>, and added: <em>\"<strong>Immigration policy in Italy works, in my country it doesn't<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I confess my perplexity when reading these statements by Feij\u00f3o. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/10\/the-great-favor-of-all-the-spanish-parties-except-vox-to-the-illegal-immigration-mafias\/\">Just five months ago, the PP supported in Congress a massive regularization of 500,000 illegal immigrants<\/a>, <strong>a measure that was only rejected by Vox<\/strong>, a Spanish party that defends the same theses on immigration as Frateli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni's party.<\/p>\n<p>You were very young then, but I remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/12\/vox-and-something-important-that-we-had-almost-forgotten-that-a-politician-could-do\/\">two months ago Feij\u00f3o caused the breakup of the regional governments of the PP and Vox<\/a> <strong>to give in to the irresponsible immigration policy of the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, which consists of distributing illegal immigrants throughout Spain instead of sending them back to their countries of origin.<\/p>\n<p>After Feij\u00f3o's decision, the president of Vox, <strong>Santiago Abascal, pointed out that Feij\u00f3o <em>\"did it knowing that his government partner -Vox-, in several regions of Spain, did not agree<\/strong> and it caused him great concern, and <strong>he did so condemning insecurity, the call effect, occupations, crime<\/strong> and an increasingly greater economic cost for all Spaniards.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I could say that it is wise to rectify, but <strong>I do not see that Feij\u00f3o has made any rectification: he has limited himself to staging a <em>change of opinion<\/em><\/strong>, just as S\u00e1nchez does every time he breaks his word. <strong>Feij\u00f3o is a standard-bearer of Groucho's Marxism<\/strong>, which can be summed up in the famous phrase <em>\"these are my principles, but if you don't like them, I have others.\"<\/em> <strong>If Feij\u00f3o were a politician with principles, he would apologize to Vox and recognize that he was wrong<\/strong> to support a massive regularization of immigrants and to cause the breakdown of the pacts with Vox.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the president of the PP will not admit his mistake or apologize to Vox because <strong>Feij\u00f3o has no principles: he is guided exclusively by electoral calculations<\/strong>, and now he has realized that supporting the irresponsible immigration policy of the socialists could make him lose votes. <strong>If Feij\u00f3o later believed that supporting illegal immigration could benefit him, he would change his speech again<\/strong> just as he did yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>For some time now, in politics, as in any other area of \u200b\u200blife, <strong>it has not been enough to support those who defend what is right: you have to support those who defend it with conviction<\/strong>, and not those who do so out of mere opportunism. If you support the latter, what you will subsequently have are changes of discourse like those exhibited by <strong>Feij\u00f3o and S\u00e1nchez, sacrificing their commitments to their personal interest<\/strong> and stretching the gullibility of their respective voters to the maximum.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pp.es\/actualidad\/imagenes?gallery=177721\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with principles and who act guided by opportunism or mere personal interest are one of the great scourges of politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[12864,10577,11680,641,11462,7535],"class_list":["post-57163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-immigration","tag-italy","tag-partido-popular","tag-spain","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}