Feijóo will alert the PPE family in Bucharest this week how “corruption” damages the Sánchez Government

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will travel this week to Bucharest (Romania) to participate in the congress of the European People’s Party (EPP) and there he will explain to his European colleagues how the “corruption plot” of the so-called ‘Koldo case’ is damaging the Government of Pedro Sánchez, according to what party sources have told Europa Press. Furthermore, he will defend the demands of the Spanish camp, while making clear once again his party’s rejection of the amnesty law that is being negotiated with the Catalan independentists. Feijóo will lead the PP delegation that will attend this conclave in the Romanian capital, in which the European ‘popular’ candidate for the Presidency of the European Commission will be elected. On February 19, Ursula von der Leyen already announced her intention to be the EPP candidate to repeat as head of the community Executive. “I would like to run for a second term,” said the former German Defense Minister at an event for her party, the Christian Democrats CDU. The head of the opposition will take advantage of the margins of the congress to exchange opinions with Von der Leyen and with the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, among other EPP officials. THE ‘KOLDO CASE’ AND THE PP OFFENSIVE IN EUROPE In ‘Génova’ they maintain that Europe “is not condescending to corruption” and that is why the PP leadership will warn its political family of the “seriousness” of the “scandal” that the called ‘Koldo case’, relating to an alleged plot with the collection of commissions for medical supplies during the pandemic. Thus, Feijóo and his people will explain to their EPP colleagues that at this moment “the Government of a Member State is fully tainted by a corruption plot that affects several ministers and that directly involves the closest environment of the President of the Government”, party sources have pointed out. This week, the PP already announced its intention to go to the European Prosecutor’s Office, the Anti-Fraud Office and the European Commission, within the framework of an offensive to investigate whether “the million-dollar commissions” of the plot “affect European funds”. The investigation into this alleged biting plot is “on the lips of all of Europe”, in the words of the PP’s deputy secretary of Health and Education, Ester Muñoz. Furthermore, Feijóo will continue to focus on “internationalizing” the PP’s offensive against the amnesty because he considers that “this drift” of the Sánchez Government “is going to stop in Europe.” In fact, the PP has already sent to the European Commission the motions approved in the regional Parliaments and City Councils against this norm, which this week will return to the foreground given that on the 7th the deadline for the Justice Commission to issue an opinion ends and send to Plenary. The PP considers that at this moment Europe is already looking at Spain and is beginning to see parallels with some steps that have been taken in Hungary and Poland. “We are going to ask for the protection of the EU and we will surely get it,” Feijóo recently stated, who believes that the Government’s “propaganda” on this matter is “stopping.” FEIJÓO TAKES THE CLAIMS OF THE SPANISH COUNTRYSIDE TO ROMANIA Feijóo, who has already closed a meeting with officials from the European Commission in charge of the Union’s agricultural policy, will take the demands of the Spanish countryside to Bucharest, after several weeks of farmers’ protests and Spanish ranchers with their tractors on the roads of several cities. What’s more, the Deputy Secretary of Institutional Affairs himself, Esteban González Pons, will go up to the plenary session to defend a presentation on this matter with the aim of “leading the position of the PPE” and seeking to “make more flexible” the controls and some decisions that the Commission has taken. The ‘popular’ will also criticize issues such as “climate dogmatism” and the “plastic tax” that the Spanish Executive has imposed which, in their opinion, harms the sector, according to PP sources. AYUSO, LÓPEZ MIRAS AND GAMARRA WILL ACCOMPANY FEIJÓO The congress – organized jointly by the National Liberal Party (PNL), the president of the EPP, Manfred Weber, and the secretary general of the EPP, Thanasis Bakolas – will bring together the political family to reaffirm the values ​​and political principles of the party with an eye on the European elections in June. This conclave, in which Feijóo is still closing bilateral meetings, will also host debates on defense and security; economy and employment”; and intergenerational solidarity. In addition, a manifesto of the European People’s Party will be approved. Feijóo will travel to Bucharest accompanied by a large delegation: the general secretary of the party, Cuca Gamarra; the deputy secretary of Institutional of the PP, Esteban González Pons; the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the president of the region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras; the vice president of the Xunta de Galicia, Diego Calvo; and the spokesperson for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, among others. ON RETURN, ‘RETIRE’ WITH HIS BARONS IN CÓRDOBA Upon his return from Romania, Feijóo has convened his territorial ‘barons’ from March 8 to 10 in Córdoba to coordinate and design the joint strategy of the entire party in response to the call ‘Koldo case’, with an eye on a “long offensive” against a Government in “decomposition”, according to ‘popular’ sources. “Our autonomous governments must also be a containment dam against the wrong, erroneous and harmful policies of the Government of Spain”, sources from Feijóo’s team have told Europa Press, who consider that one hundred days after the investiture the Sánchez Government is known by “two words: blackmail and corruption”. Furthermore, Feijóo wants to coordinate policies with his presidents, given that ‘Génova’ wants the CCAA of the PP to be “a mirror in which citizens want to look at themselves.” “Our autonomous governments must be the mirror of the policy that the national Popular Party would carry out if it governed Spain,” the same sources emphasize.