Feijóo secretly met with Abascal last Thursday to analyze the political situation

Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal met secretly last Thursday in Madrid, as confirmed by sources from the PP and Vox and

In the meeting, which lasted about an hour, the leader of the PP and Vox analyzed the political situation, "agreeing in part with the diagnosis of the situation, although differing in the way of dealing with it," say PP sources.

The same sources have reported that the head of the opposition has also met discreetly with the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, with the president of UPN, Javier Esparza, and with the leader of the Canarian Coalition, Fernando Clavijo.

Feijóo had transmitted on more than one occasion that he wanted to see Abascal in private, as with the rest of the political leaders, as part of a round of meetings with the representatives of other formations with which the PP might have to agree in the future. .

But the meeting with the leader of Vox, which has been leaked before the popular wanted to report it, has occurred before the meeting that the leader of the PP wanted to prioritize, the one he has planned with the president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, initially planned for the month of October.

Genoa's plan consists of contacting all the leaders of the formations that could give Feijóo an investiture if he wins the next general election.

Vox figures prominently there, which is also a potential partner of the PP in the autonomies and municipalities - they already govern together in Castilla y León -, but also the PNV.

The PP does not hide its interest in courting the peneuvistas, who have acted as a key in many investitures.

Feijóo's problem is that the Basque formation has anticipated that it will not be part of any equation in which Vox also participates.

The popular wanted to prioritize the meeting with Ortuzar, but the PNV has not given an appointment until October, and they have decided to meet before with the extreme right.

“Within a context of political normality,

Vox, on the other hand, is more interested in the publicity of this meeting with the PP in its context of serious internal crisis due to the departure of Macarena Olona.

Sources from the far-right party have specified that the meeting with Feijóo is part of "the normality of two political leaders who do not know each other meeting and making contact."

Regarding the content of the meeting, "from Vox it will not be commented or made public."

Feijóo and Abascal did not know each other personally, unlike many other PP leaders, who know the leader of Vox from his time as a popular militant, so this is the first time they have met face to face.

The meeting takes on special importance because the leader of the PP has yet to define what his relationship with the extreme right will be.

Until now he has avoided defining it, although he let Vox enter the first autonomous government with the PP in Castilla y León.

But in May 2023, in just eight months, Feijóo will have to decide if the PP agrees with the extreme right in more autonomies and municipalities.

A large part of the territorial power of the PP may depend on these agreements.

Sources of all solvency in the PP assure that this decision, which is strategic for the popular ones, has not yet been made.

Sources from the second vice-presidency team, for their part, confirm the meeting between Díaz and Feijóo.

Both know each other personally from their political stage in the Galician Parliament, when she was a deputy for Alternativa Galega de Esquerda (AGE) and he was president of the Xunta, and they speak "regularly", for which the head of Labor has acted as a link between the government and the opposition.

Since the arrival of the PP leader in Madrid, however, they had not seen each other, reports

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The meeting, of which for now no further details have emerged, did not take place at the ministry or at the PP headquarters, the same sources point out.