Discomfort in PP territories over Feijóo's proposal: "It mobilizes the left to talk as much about whether we agree with Vox or not"

The leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo has not agreed on his proposal to let the list with the most votes with the territorial organizations of the party govern, and some disagree that it is an adequate strategy.

In addition to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, who on Monday declared the PP leader's proposal impossible because he does not have the acquiescence of the PSOE, and acknowledged that "he does not see a bad thing" that it is governed with agreements - like her He did the same in 2019 despite the fact that he did not win the elections―, other popular baronies also question this initiative of the popular leader.

"This debate does not favor us because in the end we are talking all day about whether we agree with Vox or not, and that mobilizes the left," say sources from a territorial leadership,

where they know that it is likely that in May they will not be able to prevail as the most voted list, but perhaps they could govern with a sum with Vox.

In general terms, the barons of the PP do not feel committed to letting the list with the most votes in May govern if there is no reciprocity from the PSOE.

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The idea of ​​letting the most voted list govern is seen differently in the PP depending on the political circumstances of each one.

It is not the same to have governed with a

that is, with an agreement with other parties despite not having won the elections, as happened in 2019 to several regional presidents and mayors of the PP, such as Ayuso in Madrid;

the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras;

that of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco;

or the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida.

To never having had to do it, like Feijóo when he was president of Galicia, where he always ruled with an absolute majority.

Nor is it seen in the same way in the PP candidacies that know that in May their options to evict the PSOE from power will most likely go through an agreement with Vox.

The latter are the ones that are most concerned about Feijóo's initiative.

Sources from one of these popular candidacies regret that this proposal by the popular leader is compromising his campaign for the May elections.

"It is a logical position to try to win the vote for the center, but they are asking us all day about this issue," they complain.

“In the end it is a political story, because who are you going to leave without getting the Government if it has a sum with Vox?”, they wonder.

In this popular barony they are clear that Feijóo's proposal is not going to prevent them from coming to power if they reach a majority with Santiago Abascal's party.

"If we join Vox, we will not have any problem to govern," they warn.

Other candidates with polls that place them in the lead in May welcome Feijóo's proposal, but without giving up being allowed to join Vox if they need it.

"It's good for me because I'm going to be the first force, but this could only be carried out in the event of an agreement with the PSOE that would also apply forever, not only for this electoral cycle," defends another candidate for regional president of the PP .

"Now, if we propose a pact to the PSOE and they tell us no, will I have to find a way to govern, right?" asks this territorial leader.

"I see it very well, I have always defended that the most voted list govern, what happens is that this has to be a serious and agreed thing," says another regional president of the PP.

“It cannot be a joke, only when it suits me.

The General Electoral Regime Law (LOREG) is an organic law and can only be reformed with an absolute majority, but it should always be done with the consensus of the two big parties”, underlines this territorial leader of the PP.

Feijóo proposes to reform article 180 of the LOREG so that the list with the most votes in the city councils governs, something that the president of the PP could approve without a contest from the PSOE if he comes to power.

In the case of the autonomous communities and the central government, the leader of the PP proposes a "political pact" with the PSOE.

Several popular barons insist that any alteration of the electoral rules that the PP proposes should be done in any case with the support of the PSOE.

And permanently.

"Ideally, the rules of the game are widely agreed upon, and if we change them it has to be forever, not when it benefits us or harms us depending on the political cycle," reflects another candidate for an autonomous presidency in May.

In the PP, no one escapes that Feijóo's proposal is easier to formulate now, when the popular ones lead the private polls, except those of the Center for Sociological Research, than for example in 2019, when the PSOE was in first position in the majority of the territories in which the right governs.

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