In the week after a European election in which the PP once again won without sweeping, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has tried different formulas to request an electoral advance, even with a new version of the “Go away, Mr. González” that José María Aznar demanded from Felipe González in the debate on the State of the Nation in 1994 (the famous phrase went unnoticed during the intervention of the then opposition leader, but it took off later). “The legislature should never have started and should end as soon as possible,” the current president of the PP said this Tuesday in his speech before the party’s executive committee. “Leave it now, be responsible,” Feijóo urged Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday in the control session. It took Aznar two years from asking González to resign until he became President of the Government (he achieved it in the ’96 elections), and Feijóo tries to follow his same path of harassing the socialist leader, further emboldened by threats to instability. of the coalition Executive. Although at the moment there are no new elections in sight, the head of the conservatives, according to sources in his cabinet, does not plan to relax the siege of Sánchez. On the contrary, the PP is preparing a “Malay drop” strategy against the progressive Government, now aimed at breaking its majority in Congress. “There is no reason to relax the tension,” they warn in Genoa.
The plan is to continue harassing the progressive Government “by land, sea and air,” the PP leader’s team warns, now directing the spotlight on Parliament. “Congress is going to be hell,” they maintain in the hard core of the PP. The strategy is to break the parliamentary majority that supports Sánchez in as many votes as possible, seeking alliances even with the Junts independentists – while reproaching the PSOE – in matters in which their right-wing ideology weighs more than the territorial vision, such as immigration, security, taxation and housing and land, listed in Genoa.
He Last Tuesday it happened in plenary session before a PP bill to toughen the Penal Code against repeat theft crimes. Junts and PNV anticipated their favorable vote and the PSOE was forced to accept the idea that debate could begin to avoid a new parliamentary defeat. Until now, however, all the PP’s victories in the Chamber are more symbolic than executive, but the leadership believes that this is the way. What the dome does not contemplate at the moment is returning to the street. Half a dozen consecutive demonstrations against the Amnesty Law in Madrid have been enough for now.
The majority of the leaders consulted in the PP agree that it is not the time to relax the pressure against Sánchez. “Feijóo can’t do anything else, because they don’t let her down in front either. The question is, who does it first? Furthermore, no one wears the referee’s shirt, or wears Madrid’s or Barça’s,” reflects a popular veteran. Some voices in the party do believe, however, that it would be advisable to “lower the pitch” because the tense climate “causes people to disconnect from politics,” but they are in the minority.
The PP also does not have incentives to lower the decibels taking into account the uncertainty about the duration of the legislature. The conservatives have all kinds of theories about what can happen with the Government of Catalonia, the key to the stability of the Sánchez Executive. Some important popular leaders maintain that in the end Salvador Illa will be able to preside over the Generalitat, while others, including Feijóo, theorize that the leader of the PSOE is capable of giving the presidency to Carles Puigdemont in order to retain his support in the Congress. At the meeting of the PP executive committee last Tuesday, Feijóo urged the popular barons to keep the “machinery oiled” in the face of the possibility of new elections in the medium term. Sánchez, the leader of the PP warned his heavyweights, is unpredictable, and the PP cannot relax. “If Sánchez’s investiture agreements do not become legislative agreements, there will be elections,” defends a member of Feijóo’s steering committee. “What could happen in Catalonia is indecipherable,” he admits.
The president has meanwhile managed to change the pace of Feijóo’s victory on Sunday at the polls and direct the public debate towards blocking the General Council of the Judiciary. The leader of the PP is, once again, forced to sit down and talk to the Government after a blockade, the responsibility of his party, that has lasted more than five and a half years. This Thursday, Feijóo defended that he is willing to resume the negotiation “at the point where it was” after the last meeting in Brussels between Minister Félix Bolaños and the popular leader Esteban González Pons, while launching harsh disqualifications against Sánchez, “a president who does not is reliable” and that he is “in a terrible judicial situation.” “If he wants to assault the Judiciary, he will have the PP and the European Commission against him,” declared Feijóo, in an ambivalent message also intended for the toughest sectors of his party – such as the Madrid PP – who do not want him to come to any conclusion. agreement with the socialist president.
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The leader of the PP has not told the leadership about his plans for the Judiciary, but some members of the leadership consider that “an agreement in the coming weeks cannot be ruled out.” Once the electoral cycle with the European elections is over, a window of opportunity opens to get it out of the way before the summer, these sources believe, because then everything will get tangled up again with the application of the amnesty and the Government of Catalonia. But it will not be easy, and the hardline, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the head, is pressing not to close any pact. “If Sánchez and Feijóo reach an agreement, the one who will have the most problems explaining it to his people will be Feijóo,” warns a leading leader of the Madrid PP. So it cannot be ruled out that the blockage persists.
Feijóo has ended up exhausted by the long electoral period that has just concluded in which he has saved all the match points. The leader of the PP has bought internal time not without new difficulties, such as the recent fragmentation on the right with the platform of the ultra agitator Alvise Pérez. In the closed-door meeting on Tuesday with the barons, Feijóo complained of not understanding how, with much less budget on social networks than the PP, Pérez added such a number of followers on those platforms. Although in public discourse the PP has foisted the problem on Vox, the reality is that the popular are concerned about the new ultra version that “short-circuits new voters who could end up in the PP.” The leader of the PP is frightened by a phenomenon that he does not even understand, but that also forces him to keep the tension high against the PSOE. Privately, when asked about Alvise, Feijóo laconically confesses: “I’m worried about Spain.”
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