Feijóo considers the European front closed and avoids that of the language

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, listens to the intervention by teleconference of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, this Saturday in Toledo. Ismael Herrero (EFE)

In the hall of the hotel on the outskirts of Toledo where the PP brought together almost 700 public officials yesterday, a regional president recalled, relaxed, that just a year ago Pablo Casado opened Pandora's box.

It was in September when the former leader of the PP made the political mistake of trying to equal Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José Luis Martínez Almeida in the race to preside over the PP in Madrid, when everyone knew that the president of the community aspired to that position and I was convinced that he deserved it.

What happened next is history, but after a year - that's how changeable politics is - the PP exhibits unity, while watching with pleasure as Vox, its main competitor on the right, opens the channel.

Macarena Olona was yesterday the conversations of all the cliques of the leaders of the PP in Toledo.

The popular rub their hands with "the Yolanda Díaz de Vox", in the words of a member of the dome.

The challenge of the former deputy and former candidate for Andalusia to Santiago Abascal is the best news that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has received this week in which the fronts are piling up.

When he thought he had closed the European due to the energy tax, he has opened a new one for him, due to language policy.

The president of the European Commission was the guest star at the interparliamentary meeting of the PP, an event designed to set the party's priorities for the new course attended by barons and deputies from all over the country.

The image of Ursula von der Leyen appeared by surprise on the auditorium screen with a message for Feijóo.

The conservative leader sent a recorded video of support for the popular leader designed to give oxygen to the PP after the disagreement this week.

Von der Leyen is viewed with misgivings among her Spanish co-religionists for her "special relationship of complicity with Pedro Sánchez", and had left the PP with a changed foot by delivering a forceful speech in Strasbourg in favor of a tax on energy companies to which the PP had voted no in Madrid.

after the crash,

the popular ones modulated their message and Feijóo promised that if the design of the tax adjusts to that of Europe, the PP will rectify and support it.

But it was necessary to stage a closure of the open gap between the PP and the highest community leader of the European People's Party.

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In his recorded speech, Von der Leyen defended, without citing him, the tax on energy companies, due to the necessary "balance between the market economy and the responsibility towards citizens who work hard", a message that reveals a socio-liberal vision of the economy that clashes with that of some ultraliberal sectors of the Spanish PP.

But he also countered with pro-business words, calling for "finding new and smart ways to ease the burden on the shoulders of businesses, which provide wages and jobs to people."

"They need air, and they need it now," emphasized the community leader.

However, the president of the Commission remains unconvinced in the PP.

In Toledo, a popular leader summed up the discomfort in the party after listening to her: "she is a

.

Too".

With the European front more or less resolved, Feijóo's team was struggling yesterday to explain the absence of the leader in the demonstration this Sunday in Barcelona in defense of Castilian in teaching in Catalonia.

The general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, will represent the PP in the protest, which will be attended by the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and that of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, and popular leaders such as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo.

Feijóo has stepped on a very sensitive issue, but in his team they assure that they have weighed all the pros and cons of not attending.

He will not do it, according to the official explanation, because he could not leave the inter-parliamentary meeting of the PP that was previously convened and that he will close on Sunday.

In his cabinet they also defend that Vox "does not set the pace for them."

“Vox has a very small message.

We are not that

A year after the great internal battle, Ayuso attends the PP events as one more, although she does not give up leaving her seal.

In Toledo, the Madrid leader took the opportunity to ridicule the latest campaign of the Ministry of Equality on masculinity, entitled "The soft man", and to use it against Pedro Sánchez.

“I am surprised when it comes from a government that says that there are de facto powers that control everything,” Ayuso quipped before addressing the Prime Minister.

"When you have everything under your control and you are not capable of filling absolutely nothing with illusion, who is the soft man?"

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