Vox sneaks abortion into the campaign to the "manager Feijóo"

Vox and abortion have once again slipped into Alberto Núñez Feijóo in his campaign for 28-M, in which he wanted to oppose himself again as a great manager full of values ​​against Pedro Sánchez, whom he sees as a president "intervened ” and “out of stock”.

Vox, that nuisance that appears to him as an inevitable demoscopic partner, and abortion, an issue now so transversal ideologically and that sensitizes the influential female electorate, have been embedded in Feijóo's political plans, again at the wrong time.

It already happened when last spring he avoided going to the inauguration of the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, and his vice president, the ultra Juan García-Gallardo, who is the one who has rescued this abortion debate so untimely.

Feijóo, this Saturday, avoided that complex matter, as if Vox did not exist,

as if it were a regional debate, a strategy that he will follow when other excesses of the ultra formation question him.

In their environment they maintain that "it is Vox that comes out like this to the media rescue of Sánchez" and that "the accusations against Feijóo for leading the coalition of fear are those that served Juanma Moreno to achieve an absolute majority in Andalusia."

People have the power

, by Patty Smith, sounded at full blast in the Zaragoza auditorium where all the regional and presidential candidates of the PP gathered yesterday.

Those who are examined on 28-M and those who have already won, govern and have become benchmarks, even for the former great Baron Feijóo.

The leader seemed enthusiastic about everyone, as if he had sponsored them all his life.

He went so far as to say that Isabel Díaz Ayuso from Madrid is the best autonomous president of Spain and asked her to lend her a hand as a shield to free her from the insults that she says she is receiving in a deluge from the Government and the PSOE.

He dedicated specific affection to all of them, although Moreno was the one he gave himself the most to.

With Manueco, whom he has known for a long time as the former president of Galicia, he was not as expressive.

Feijóo, after the act,

He summoned all the regional presidents and their campaign committee to a meal.

With Mañueco he maintained contact, but not a specific talk about the crisis unleashed in Castilla y León by the anti-abortion measures promoted by his vice president, of Vox.

Feijóo's team did communicate with Mañueco's collaborators, from early Friday and all this Saturday, to develop a response strategy, especially in the media field.

Mañueco, present in Zaragoza, was convinced to break his silence all Friday and explain his version of the medical protocol that his Government will establish starting this Monday to urge doctors and pregnant women to take into account, for example, specific psychological help or they can listen to the heartbeat of the fetus or have 4D ultrasound scans.

Mañueco, finally, appeared before the PP convention began, above all to specify that these measures will not be mandatory but informative and to emphasize, in line with the pattern set on Friday from Madrid by the new campaign spokesman, Borja Sémper, the "Absolute freedom for women to choose, absolute respect for their rights and absolute respect for the rights of health workers."

Manueco accepted there that the aim is to increase birth rates, but not in any way: "If it is considered dangerous for the woman or for the fetus, that will not be done."

Under the indirect supervision of Feijóo's team, Mañueco thus tried to stop the scandal of a debate that precipitated Thursday noon, when Gallardo appeared in Valladolid together with the spokesman for the Board, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, of the PP.

Gallardo took the floor: the coalition had "agreed and agreed" a new protocol with pregnant women.

He admitted "not knowing much about pregnancies", recited those measures that according to him would be "imperative" for doctors and to choose for women.

And Carriedo, from the PP, impassive, just listened.

When the information bomb exploded at the national level and began to splash Feijóo, sources from the Ministry of Health denied on Thursday afternoon only the mandatory application for doctors.

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Statements by García-Gallardo on the 'pro-life' measures

The leader of the far-right Vox party in Castilla y León, Juan García Gallardo, gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Valladolid on February 14, 2022.Photo: CESAR MANSO

Friday dawned with the ultra vice president insisting that the anti-abortion measures would be established "yes or yes."

Other councilors, from the PP, came out to clarify that the objective was to "increase the birth rate" and that it would be voluntary.

The noise was so widespread on Friday that Sémper, whom Feijóo signed with his moderate band, stood out and warned Vox that they are not willing to “swallow anything”.

At the end of that afternoon, the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez, made himself available by telephone to various media outlets to specify that the new medical actions will be launched tomorrow and that they will be voluntary, but that health workers will be "urged" to apply them, with medical criteria.

He admitted that women who want to terminate the pregnancy never ask to hear the fetal heartbeat.

Manueco, from Zaragoza, did not want to "analyze" anything about the ideas of his ultra vice president, which have again put him in serious trouble.

Before the audience and in front of Feijóo, he chose to attack the left, which has erupted in the face of this possible setback in the freedom of choice for many women, and from which he does not accept any lessons.

The culmination of Ayuso

Feijóo did not make an indirect allusion.

He turned to questioning Sánchez for everything, in a difficult competition with all the regional barons who, in any case, did not reach Ayuso's peak level.

In just a few minutes, the woman from Madrid put into her speech about "fear" that her blood is starting to freeze" because of the "totalitarian" Sánchez to the ETA member Txapote, "Spain is sinking", "Nunca mais" and "No a war".

Feijóo's collaborators justified the silence of the leader on abortion, Vox and even Mañueco: “The one who comes to the media rescue of Sánchez with these regional issues whenever he can is Vox.

Feijóo has spoken about current national issues, such as the release or reduction of sentences for rapists, and Vox is not going to set the agenda for us.

The thing about Feijóo and the coalition of fear is not going to slip through and the PSOE should take note of what happened to it with that in Andalusia when they took it away from Juanma Moreno and achieved an absolute majority.

We bought it".

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