Feijóo renounces mobilizing the streets against the sedition reform and opts for a tour of rallies in Spain

Vox played on Sunday at the protest against the sedition reform in Barcelona.

The far-right party barely managed to gather just over 300 people at the Santiago Abascal event in the Catalan capital, whom it had summoned "in front of the Government of ruin, insecurity and betrayal", according to the advertising poster. of the party

The low influx to the Vox protest for sedition contrasts with the massive demonstration the previous Sunday in Madrid for public health, in which 200,000 people participated.

At the moment, sedition, unlike healthcare, is not moving the streets, as happened with the pardons for the pro-independence leaders, when the PP also punctured its collection of signatures against the measure of grace.

Given the environment and the precedents,

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has given up trying to mobilize the streets against the reform of the Penal Code.

Instead, the popular president opts for a tour of rallies that he himself will lead throughout Spain, which will have a special presence in the territories where the PP wants to wrest power from the PSOE in the regional elections in May.

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de Feijóo begins this week in Badajoz (Extremadura), where the Socialists govern, and in Madrid, in a symbolic location for Pedro Sánchez, because the PP has chosen to hold its rally the Antonio Magariños sports center of the Ramiro de Maeztu institute, where the president of the Government completed his studies.

Later, Feijóo will travel to Castilla-La Mancha, Aragon and the Valencian Community ―territories where the PSOE also governs―, as explained by the general coordinator of the popular, Elías Bendodo, at a press conference this Monday at the headquarters of the PP.

At the moment, according to sources from the popular leadership, a similar act is not planned in Catalonia, despite the fact that it is in this community where the sedition reform will take effect -because it will affect Catalan pro-independence politicians-,

although it is not ruled out to do so later.

But it is not a priority.

The general coordinator explained this Monday that the PP is carrying out this tour in the face of the "full-fledged attack" by the Government of Pedro Sánchez on "the basic rules of coexistence".

"The Government attacks justice, the Penal Code, judges, freedom of the press and the Constitution," says the PP.

"There is no country that can resist the spiral of self-destruction and chaos that Sánchez has put us into," Bendodo stressed.

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The party has also accused the socialist president of having "negotiated with [former Catalan president Carles] Puigdemont", although there is no evidence that this happened, and of "giving away the Penal Code to the coup leaders", despite the fact that the leaders independentistas were sentenced by the Supreme Court for a crime of sedition and not for rebellion, which is the criminal offense to punish a coup.

The rhetoric of the PP against the Government has escalated a degree this Monday, after several opinion articles in the press over the weekend highlighted that Feijóo lacks a bulldog to bite the Executive.

Bendodo has given himself up to that role and has accused Sánchez of having "lost his morale."

"He is capable of going beyond all limits to stay one more month in La Moncloa, turning the basic rules of coexistence in our country upside down", the

of the popular has abounded, whom Feijóo has commissioned to be the spearhead of the attacks.

The Popular Party launches Feijóo's tour so that it is known that "here is the PP, which is going to defend the unity of Spain", Bendodo has expressed.

The formation thus responds to the pressures it is receiving from the media and political right to go further against the sedition reform.

Vox and Ciudadanos demand that Feijóo present a motion of no confidence against Sánchez, but the PP discards it because it does not see it if it is not to win it.

The popular leadership also renounces carrying out other types of more forceful initiatives, such as the collection of signatures that it did organize in the past against pardons, as well as mobilizing the streets calling demonstrations.

Feijóo opts for a more conservative option, that of the classic rallies with his militants and supporters, which offers less risk of a puncture.

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