The leader and the baroness dramatize their communion of interests, but also that they conceive autonomous Spain differently
The appointment had the curiosity of being presented as a round table of the regional presidents of the moderate PP, in the literal sense, by its future leader and still the head of the Galician Xunta. In the end, the format has been adjusted to a succession of monologues preluded by Alberto Núñez Feijóo that has served the popular to champion the two banners of the “reset” congress: unity and power, the latter reflected in the leaders of the communities where the party governs and in the setting of the expectations raised by Feijóo with the majorities of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, target of the affection of the cadres and militants gathered at the Fiber in Seville. But the succession of interventions, crowned by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has shown not only the different modulation that autonomous Spain has in the mouth of the Galician baron and the Madrid baroness. Also that she faces this new stage withdrawn before Feijóo’s leadership by acclamation, but without giving in to the demand for his speech. “We are not just here to win a congress, but to win elections”, she warned her leader, after having anointed him as “the option that this party needs” to recover Moncloa.
The order of the speeches, with Feijóo opening and Díaz Ayuso closing, has diluted the speeches of the rest of the regional presidents -Juanma Moreno, Juan Vivas, Fernando López Miras and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco- has drawn a symphony on the way of governing from the regional experience without dissension, but with relevant nuances and a non-harmonious musicality. Both have presented the direction of the popular in the different communities, now and in the past in which the Spanish map was dyed blue, as the model to follow in the “plural and diverse” Spain and also unique that Diaz Ayuso has drawn .
But where Feijóo has emphasized the benefits of management against “socialism, populism and independence”, the Madrid president has influenced more identity aspects, with an express call to the new generations to preserve “the continuity of centuries of Spain» and to combat «masochism, defeatism and pessimism». No one should govern as if “their homeland” operated apart from the rest of the country, she warned, before stressing that the future of the communities, with a message to Catalonia, “is decided by all of us.”
That was not the tone, pregnant with references to the Constitution, “respect” for the rule of law and “freedom” that, she incisively recalled, boosted her to a resounding majority in the May 4 elections, which she deployed Feijóo in his introduction. If he clings to something in his explicit vindication of the Spain of Autonomies, it is to management, management, management, as a hammering speech. A management of which Galicia, the Galicia that he has led since 2009, is an example of how to govern in his eyes: with generalized tax cuts, “better” public services and, all of this, “balancing the accounts”. “Many stories are told, but I come to talk about accounts,” stressed the still leader of the Xunta, in implicit contrast with a Pedro Sánchez whom he did not mention, but his companions on the platform did to denounce “the suffocation” of the inflation and “fiscal blows”, in the words of Mañueco.
The table converted into a crossroads of speeches measured the state of the communion of interests that Feijóo and Díaz Ayuso reached after the schism of the fateful days of February and the resignation of Pablo Casado in which both were decisive. The two have exchanged gestures of complicity and she has praised “the personal sacrifices” of the Ourense leader for abandoning the guaranteed power in his land, but after verifying before the audience that this is a congress that responds “to a crisis that should never have existed », Against the background of her painful complaint of being a victim of the persecution of ‘casadismo’ by way of airing the contract that splashes her brother, the Madrid president has launched that «the Spaniards are watching us». And that happens, she has told Feijóo, not only for his enthronement in Seville, but for winning the elections against Sánchez. Which has sounded like she’ll be waiting in the meantime. And she, always erected as a battering ram against Sánchez, has left the sharpest reproach against the Government: “Let them move away if they don’t know, let them stop doing so much damage if they don’t understand.”
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