Feijóo prepares an offensive against Sánchez for sedition, forced to change his strategy

All honeymoons come to an end.

That of Alberto Núñez Feijóo as leader of the PP has ended just seven months after he was raised to the presidency of the party by a pact of the barons to oust Pablo Casado.

The Galician politician is now forcibly opening a new chapter of his leadership in the party, forced to make a shift in his strategy for having ruined the policy of state pacts with which he said he was coming to leadership (unlike his predecessor ).

At the same time, the surveys detect for the first time a brake on the intention to vote of the popular ones.

The conservative leader is preparing an offensive against Pedro Sánchez for the reform of the crime of sedition to try to get out of the rut of the rupture of the Judicial Power,

Feijóo had earned an image of a moderate baron of the PP as the perfect antagonist of Pablo Casado.

With that aura he reached the seventh floor of Génova street, inaugurating a new strategy of the main opposition party, one of whose pillars was to offer state pacts.

However, the Galician politician has ended up mimicking Casado by adopting the same decision to maintain the paralysis of justice, arguing the legislative agenda of the Government of Pedro Sánchez.

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For the first time since he became president of the PP, Feijóo has agreed to the thesis of the party's hawks, who never saw it possible to reach an agreement with the socialist president, which forces him to reinvent himself and reset his strategy.

"The PP is a party born to defend the Constitution, to apply it and to feel proud of it," the popular leader had said just a few days ago in an interview with

The first thing he has had to do is turn his speech around.

Barely 48 hours after the breakup, Feijóo appeared in Lugo without the suit of a statesman, with a very harsh speech focused on discrediting the Prime Minister, whom he came to place outside the Constitution if he reformed the crime of sedition.

"The constitutional order is not compatible with agreeing on a Penal Code with those who do not agree to respect the law," defended the popular leader on Saturday in the environment in which he feels safe, the PP of Galicia.

“Sánchez seems to have no limit, no brake, when it comes to negotiating his survival in La Moncloa for the next few months,” charged the most married Feijóo, with arguments identical to those used by his predecessor.

Forced by his own decision to break bridges with the Government, the leader of the PP finds himself imprisoned to reissue the speech of “Go away, Mr. González!

” by José María Aznar in the nineties.

“Spain deserves a better president than the one it has”, he settled in Lugo Feijóo.

Pressure on the socialist barons

The leader of the PP is now also preparing an offensive focused on the reform of sedition to try to wear down the PSOE, according to sources from his team.

The PP will put all the focus on this reform -which the Government has not even formally presented in Parliament nor has it announced when it will carry it out, if at all- and on seeking internal division in the PSOE.

“We are going to ask the socialist barons every day what they think of reforming sedition,” they broadcast in Genoa, confident that this matter will wear down the Government more than the swerve of the Judiciary will affect the PP.

In the more moderate sectors of the PP, on the other hand, there is concern that the rupture of the only possibility of a state pact will weaken Feijóo's image as a politician with a negotiating and statesmanlike spirit.

The leader of the PP has already closed the door to agreements "with this PSOE" and in his team they confirm that the Council of the Judiciary is blocked

because "there is no way to escape from sedition" and that they do not see possibilities of great agreements either with Sanchez.

“The credibility of the president for us has been very damaged.

With Pedro Sánchez you can't.

See you at the polls”, they say in Genoa.

The problem with this new strategy without the pactist spirit is that it can reduce the transfer of voters from the PSOE to the PP, which was already suffering from a drop in the valuation of Feijóo among socialist voters, according to the CIS.

Genoa longed for a million votes from the PSOE to reach La Moncloa by way of presenting Feijóo as a moderate and almost non-ideologized politician, but now he has to surrender to the harshest confrontation with the Socialists.

"The legislature is over," lament the more moderate of the PP.

In the internal dimension, the swerve of the Judiciary also leaves consequences.

“On the one hand, there is relief because a part of public opinion believed that they were going to deceive you and they have not deceived you.

But on the other hand, Feijóo does not reach agreements when he needs them”, analyzes a PP leader.

Feijóo has avoided his first internal revolt by bowing to the thesis of the hawks of the party led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but at the same time the president of the Community of Madrid comes out strengthened as the one who sets the pace, as happened with Casado.

Feijóo's turn has also aroused internal criticism of his closest team of collaborators, all from the Government of the Xunta de Galicia, and the main heavyweights of his leadership.

“It is not easy to make decisions with the speed that this city demands.

of the whole team,

The one who is getting used to Madrid the best is Feijóo.

The general secretary [Cuca Gamarra] limps, she is not up to the task”, is heard in important centers of power of the PP.

In the Feijóo dome they defend themselves against friendly fire: “A number of people believe that nothing can be agreed with Sánchez.

That is not complying with the spirit of the Transition.

Others said that they were going to deceive us, but the pact was very good, it coincided 90% with the proposal that we presented in July”.

For the first time, in some sectors of the PP there are doubts about whether Feijóo will be able to reach La Moncloa.

The slowdown in the polls -although the majority continues to place him ahead of the PSOE- is the main symptom that the Galician baron's honeymoon is over.

On landing in Madrid there is turbulence.

On Saturday, in Lugo, in his safe environment, Feijóo was honest and complained about the "shredder" that politics has become.

He also left a message that could be read between the lines as addressed to the Madrid PP, which has presented itself as the winner in the crisis of the Judiciary.

“A good part of the problems of national politics is that they believe that the only important politics is the one that takes place within the M-30 ″, he reflected.

“And outside of Madrid there have been great politicians and great presidents of the Government”,

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