Mallorca: Feijóo pledges housing and security
Mallorca: Alberto Núñez Feijóo promises housing, order and security for the Balearic Islands if his People’s Party (PP) wins power. The candidate for Spanish prime minister makes the pledge at a campaign event in Palma, Mallorca, on Monday, 9 November. About 2,500 people attend at the Pueblo Español, according to the party’s estimate.
Feijóo says he would not govern with one eye on television or social media. Drawing a contrast with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, he says politics should be a service to people, not a performance. “I came to lift the country, not to insult,” he says.
Housing and pensions
Feijóo calls the campaign by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) insulting to most Spaniards. He accuses the Socialists of creating a housing shortage and then blaming the opposition for it.
He also promises that, if the PP governs, pensions will be adjusted each year in line with the consumer price index. He says young people, too, have a right to a pension.
A push for votes
With his election programme due to be presented within hours and the official campaign days away, Feijóo urges PP members to ask their neighbours for support. He particularly wants them to speak to Socialist voters he says are fed up with Sánchez.
Balearic president and regional PP leader Marga Prohens backs him at the event. She says she is confident he will win and that having a Galician in La Moncloa, the Spanish prime minister’s official residence, would be good for the islands.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com