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Leaderships are like sausages, almost better not to see how they are made. Otherwise they can fail to inspire respect. Charisma and empathy come into play, but also interested adhesions and dossiers to make mincemeat of the rival. To avoid bicephalies and self-destructive battles, Genoa has already pointed out López Miras in the PP
In the first episode of the series ‘Borgen’, the leader of a moderate party in Denmark decides to interrupt her schedule to go to her son’s birthday, the day before the elections, to the astonishment of her main adviser. “You have to keep the promises you make to your children. When they are older they will also vote », she says, leaving her ‘spin doctor’ disarmed. Denmark is not Murcia, but there are universal constants in the behavior of the parties and their leaders. They respond to the same logic of power. The ultimate reason is to conquer it by gathering more votes than the opponents, starting with the closest ones, and preserve them at all costs. That explains everything and prevails over everything. So that internal democracy is, almost always, pure props.
As in Denmark, the objective is to reach the government to deploy its own public policy agenda. The difference (so it goes) is that in Spain they try to do it by occupying all possible positions of responsibility with party members, instead of having a highly efficient civil servant administration that does not change with each new Executive. And this has a decisive influence on the gestation and renewal of leadership, which ceases to inspire respect as it deepens in how they are forged within the parties. Personal attributes come into play, such as charisma, empathy, the ability to mobilize or generosity with internal competitors, but also interested adhesions in exchange for positions, betrayals, dossiers and, if necessary, passing the rival through the mincer of meat. Leadership is like laws, which in turn are like sausages: it is almost better not to see how they are made. But for professional reasons, when there is public news interest, it is a journalistic obligation to cover these processes, even though I personally am not enthusiastic about the subject and I am indifferent to the final result. This sausage, more or less like it, is important for our public life, then it must be examined and accounted for, despite the fact that until now it has had, and it seems that it will have, little chitchat due to the foreseeable zero dialectical and project opposition.
I am referring to the leadership of the regional PP, in the hands of Fernando López Miras, and to which the mayor of Archena, Patricia Fernández, aspires, who has been threatening to present her candidacy for more than a year, without speaking publicly about it, except through third parties. , and encouraged by New Generations and the popular old guard. Patricia Fernández is on time until next Wednesday, when the term closes, to take the step to which she legitimately aspires. As a journalist, I would like nothing more. A congress with two contenders of weight in contention would give much more informative game than one to the Bulgarian one. Today it does not seem that the first is going to happen, except for surprise, because Genoa clearly bets on López Miras. She cannot prohibit running for mayor, but the party’s national leadership does not want her as a candidate. The former Secretary General, García Egea from Murcia, already let her know when she met with him and Casado last August in Madrid.
Now it has happened again, with the slam of the door received in his last visits to Genoa, with Núñez Feijóo already as leader, who gave signs of what his position would be in the different regional congresses during his first executive committee. The course of events does not surprise me. It has nothing to do with the capacities of the mayor. Not even with her clear disadvantage in terms of support within the middle ranks of the regional party. Not even with the mistakes made. Questioning the composition of the regional government was the biggest of all. The definitive thing for Genoa is the panorama that would open up if there were a congress and Patricia won. Can anyone imagine what would happen if there were a president in Saint Stephen who a year after the elections was politically finished, what the Americans call a ‘lame duck’, and a new leader unable to intervene in regional life, but who would be forced to do so in order to gain the public knowledge that it now does not have? The great advantage of the PP in the last 25 years is that the candidate, except in the case of Pedro Antonio Sánchez, was the president of the Community, with all that that entails.
Memory is fragile in politics, but it is enough to remember the sindio that was the year in which Valcárcel was still at the head of the PP, Garre presided over the Government and Pedro Antonio Sánchez was the one indicated as the head of the list. Now it would be worse, according to the incipient foul play unfolded. There are too many general directors whose future depends on the continuity of López Miras. And supporters of Patricia Fernández with expectation of office that have been seen. That is why Genoa appeals to unity. She does not want trouble that could weaken her expectations in the Region and the path that Núñez Feijóo wants to start today towards La Moncloa if the results in Andalusia are indicative of a change in the national cycle.
López Miras, who is smiling at the polls, has been given a clear warning. This time he has to win at the polls. If Feijóo advocates that the most voted list govern, it will not be enough for the current president of the popular Murcians to add more to Vox than the left. They have told him that he must win clearly, approaching the results of yesteryear, as Feijóo evoked in his first intervention in Murcia. If she fails, Patricia Fernández will have her chance, in the event that she decides to continue in politics and that she enters the PP lists for the Assembly, a possibility that cannot be ruled out today.
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