On Sunday, the president of the Popular Party, Alberto N\u00fa\u00f1ez Feij\u00f3o, closed his party's 27th interparliamentary meeting in Seville.<\/p>\n
In his closing speech (the full video can be seen here<\/a>), Feij\u00f3o stated the following (video point 56:14):<\/p>\n We will not renounce our principles, our commitment, or our program voted for at the polls.<\/strong> We will not submit to anyone's blackmail. We will not compromise with the general interest or the unity of the Nation. Change will come with values, or it will not come at all.<\/strong> There are no magic formulas for achieving it. There is only one method: work, work, and work.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n All of this sounds very good, but my experience with the PP says that there is a big gap between words and actions<\/strong>. My experience with the PP and specifically with Feij\u00f3o. As I have already pointed out here several times, in 2009 Feij\u00f3o promised \"linguistic freedom\" to the Galicians and after the elections he betrayed his promise<\/a>, establishing a system of \"trilingualism\", in which politicians choose for families<\/strong>, instead of a true system of free language choice in schools.<\/p>\n Sixteen years later, the Galician People's Party (PP) has yet to fulfill that promise<\/strong>, despite having governed this region for all this time with absolute majorities that would allow it to fulfill that promise without needing the support of other parties.<\/p>\n Over the past few decades, the PP has embraced several important ideological tenets of the left, such as abortion, gender ideology<\/strong>, school indoctrination in these tenets, criminal inequality for men and women, green policies that harm our economy, social democratic economic prescriptions, and excessive state interventionism.<\/p>\n Let's remember that during Mariano Rajoy's term, the PP left all the socialist ideological laws intact<\/strong>, despite having an absolute majority for four years to repeal them. Feij\u00f3o was then one of the PP leaders who pressured it to betray one of his most important electoral promises<\/a>, that of \"reinforcing the protection of the right to life\"<\/em> (see PP program for the 2011 general elections<\/a>, page 108).<\/p>\n Today, the PP is no longer the center-right party it once was, but rather a party ideologically situated on the center-left<\/strong>. In fact, it governs in Brussels in a coalition with the socialists<\/a>. In its words and, above all, in its actions, the PP has become a party marked by lukewarmness and ambiguity, a party in which principles and values \u200b\u200bare like dust blown away by the wind.<\/p>\n So, what \"principles\" and \"values\" is Feij\u00f3o talking about? What socialist ideological laws would you repeal if he governs?<\/strong> What would you do with laws as aberrant as those on abortion, euthanasia, gender violence, the trans law, and others? For me, Feij\u00f3o's word has been worthless for 16 years.<\/strong> I voted for him in 2009 because he promised us Galicians \"linguistic freedom\" and he lied to us. Nevermore, Mr. Feij\u00f3o.<\/strong><\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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