Five months before the municipal and regional elections, the Popular Party has already activated all its electoral machinery.
The popular ones, who before the end of the year will have designated the heads of the regional list and those of the big cities, held a conclave this Friday at their headquarters in Genoa with the regional secretaries of the formation to warm up engines before the appointment of the 28 of May.
The formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo prepares the teams to face elections that the popular ones pose as a platform that will catapult them to the general elections, at the end of next year.
The slogan is to focus the message on a national key, highlighting the figure of Feijóo, and thus confront “
sanchismo
” from all fronts.
"Another government is possible and that is what we have to focus on in this electoral campaign," said the general secretary of the Popular Party, Cuca Gamarra, in front of her supporters, in a closed-door appearance after the meeting.
The speech of the also spokesperson for the PP in Congress took place after a face-to-face meeting with the regional secretaries, which was also attended by the Deputy Secretary of Organization, Miguel Tellado.
Genoa decides on the names of the candidates for mayor in the provincial capitals and in the dozen autonomous communities that hold elections, while the regional leaders choose the
number ones
from the rest of the municipalities.
The strategy is to launch a message that combines "the particularities of each territory" and praises Feijóo against Sánchez, at the head of a "Government in trouble, exhausted and without a project."
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Feijóo prepares an offensive against Sánchez for sedition, forced to change his strategy
“The victory of the municipal and regional elections always anticipates a change in the political cycle and the victory of a general election.
And this time it will be like that again.
We have the great team of the Popular Party that is here represented the great responsibility of accepting this change in the political cycle and that will lead to our president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, being the next president of the Government”, Gamarra has sentenced a week after that the pact to renew the CGPJ, until that imminent moment, would blow up.
“Let no one count on us to weaken the State, coexistence and equality of all citizens.
The responsibility is to enforce the law and not make it to the measure of those who skip it, "said the popular leader on the reform of sedition.
The PP refuses to resume talks on the Judiciary unless the Government commits in writing that it will not lower the sentences for this crime.
What makes an understanding impossible.
The Government is divided, subjected to the mortgages of independence and questioned by Europe.
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– Popular Party (@populares) November 4, 2022
Gamarra has asked his men for "unity" to fight, from the party bases, in a common offensive "essential to beat Sánchez and his partners".
In addition to the slogans for the campaign, in several territories weapons are already brandished to reinforce Feijóo's speech, in full offensive by the sedition after the swerve in the agreement to renew the Judiciary, which has raised the first doubts of some sectors of the party about whether it will arrive at La Moncloa.
In regional Parliaments such as those of Castilla La-Mancha and Extremadura, their regional leaders, Francisco Núñez and María Guardiola, have launched proposals for their respective regional Courts to rule on sedition.
The first was rejected by the House on Friday.
The PP currently has 2,868 mayors, 30.34% of the total number of aldermen, according to training data updated in April.
In total, 20,336 mayors that the party aspires to increase in the elections on May 28.
According to the macro-survey on trends in municipal voting made public this Friday by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), the PSOE would win the municipal elections if they were held at this time, with 32.8% of the votes, compared to 26, 8% that the PP would achieve.
In his speech this Friday, Gamarra has precisely criticized the CIS estimates.
Asturias, waiting for the new president
Among the regional secretaries who have attended Genoa this Friday was Álvaro Queipo, who assumes the position of president of the Asturian PP, after Teresa Mallada resigned from his position this Wednesday.
The tensions between Mallada and the national leadership to designate the candidate for the regional elections, dragged on since April, have precipitated the departure of the Asturian leader.
"I have always believed that the people who are part of a political party should be where we think we are most useful for the project we represent," she wrote on the social network Twitter Mallada.
I have always believed that the people who are part of a political party should be where we believe we are most useful for the project we represent.
Therefore, I have proceeded to place my position at the disposal of President Feijóo, proposing my resignation.
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– Teresa Mallada De Castro (@TereMalladaPP) November 2, 2022
Sources from the national leadership assure that the name of the future Asturian baron will be announced soon.
“The party is going to reorganize internally.
We work with the idea of doing it as soon as possible”, they underline from Genoa, after months in which the party broke in two in the region.