At the closing of the Balearic Popular Party congress in Palma, Alberto Núñez Feijóo said the “first commitment to health and public services is not to steal”. The PP leader was speaking in Mallorca as the party chose Marga Prohens as president with 99.93% of the vote, one year before regional elections.
Feijóo used the speech to criticise the Spanish government and former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. He asked whether anyone in the Socialist Party (PSOE) was “ashamed” of the current government, and said it had “surpassed another limit in decadence”.
He also accused the government of corruption, saying that “everything is corruption and the only agenda this Government has is the agenda of the courts”. Feijóo described it as a government of “firsts”, citing the first time a president’s brother and wife have been charged, a prosecutor general convicted, or a former government president charged. He added that, for this government, “the social elevator is the PSOE party card”.
Feijóo said Spain needs integrity and respected institutions, not a government that “turns us into a national humiliation every week”. He also said PP leaders must show decency and promised to expel any member who did not.
He set out five future commitments for the Balearic Islands, starting with public health after a strike that left 77,000 patients without care. On regional funding, he backed a model tailored to “the needs of all Spaniards”, rather than one tailored to “the demands of separatists”.
On immigration, Feijóo described the current government’s model as “inhumane and unsustainable”. He said that “illegality cannot produce rights”, and added that people who come to contribute would be welcomed, while “those who come to commit crimes will be deported”.