Feijóo, Meloni and the Groucho Marxism of the Popular Party with immigration

People who are principles and who act guided by opportunism or mere personal interest are one of the great scourges of politics.

Vox and something important that we had almost forgotten that a politician could do
The great favor of all the Spanish parties except Vox to the illegal immigration mafias

This Thursday, the national president of the Popular Party (PP) of Spain, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, met with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. Regarding this meeting, the PP website has pointed out that Feijóo said that his party "will be absolutely respectful of regular immigration, but “forceful” with irregular immigration to prevent mafias that traffic people from being able to use them to do business."

Feijóo acknowledged that the Italian government's proposals "have resulted in Italy reducing irregular immigration by 60%, while Spain has increased it by the same percentage", and added: "Immigration policy in Italy works, in my country it doesn't."

I confess my perplexity when reading these statements by Feijóo. Just five months ago, the PP supported in Congress a massive regularization of 500,000 illegal immigrants, a measure that was only rejected by Vox, a Spanish party that defends the same theses on immigration as Frateli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni's party.

You were very young then, but I remember that two months ago Feijóo caused the breakup of the regional governments of the PP and Vox to give in to the irresponsible immigration policy of the socialist Pedro Sánchez, which consists of distributing illegal immigrants throughout Spain instead of sending them back to their countries of origin.

After Feijóo's decision, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, pointed out that Feijóo "did it knowing that his government partner -Vox-, in several regions of Spain, did not agree and it caused him great concern, and he did so condemning insecurity, the call effect, occupations, crime and an increasingly greater economic cost for all Spaniards."

I could say that it is wise to rectify, but I do not see that Feijóo has made any rectification: he has limited himself to staging a change of opinion, just as Sánchez does every time he breaks his word. Feijóo is a standard-bearer of Groucho's Marxism, which can be summed up in the famous phrase "these are my principles, but if you don't like them, I have others." If Feijóo were a politician with principles, he would apologize to Vox and recognize that he was wrong to support a massive regularization of immigrants and to cause the breakdown of the pacts with Vox.

I know that the president of the PP will not admit his mistake or apologize to Vox because Feijóo has no principles: he is guided exclusively by electoral calculations, and now he has realized that supporting the irresponsible immigration policy of the socialists could make him lose votes. If Feijóo later believed that supporting illegal immigration could benefit him, he would change his speech again just as he did yesterday.

For some time now, in politics, as in any other area of ​​life, it has not been enough to support those who defend what is right: you have to support those who defend it with conviction, 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 Feijóo and Sánchez, sacrificing their commitments to their personal interest and stretching the gullibility of their respective voters to the maximum.

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Photo: Partido Popular.