Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal met in the middle of last week to analyze the scenarios that have been opened after the general elections held on July 23 and discuss the details of a hypothetical investiture of the Galician leader. A “cordial” meeting, according to Vox sources, which the PP has confirmed, but the duration or the place where they were seen has not been disclosed and which has aroused criticism from the PSOE. “Do not hide,” the Minister of Education and socialist spokesperson Pilar Alegría wrote on Twitter.
After election night, and after verifying that the sum of their seats does not guarantee a right-wing government (six deputies have fallen short of an absolute majority), Feijóo and Abascal had a first telephone conversation that materialized a few days later in a face to face between the two. An appointment that in Genoa is framed in the contacts initiated by the former president of the Xunta to assemble a possible majority for his investiture, without wanting to go into more detail, appealing to the “discretion” with which they already anticipated that they would handle this matter. “When there is something to transfer, we will do it with absolute transparency,” his general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, had assured at a press conference shortly before the meeting was leaked.
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