From the left, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra;
the president of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo;
the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, and the vice-secretary for Social Policies and Demographic Challenge, Carmen Fúnez, during the national board of directors on Monday.EDUARDO PARRA (Europa Press)
The post-electoral pacts for the regional and municipal elections on May 28 are strategic for Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
They are going to close just six months before the general elections, in which the PP leader is risking all or nothing the possibility of reaching La Moncloa, so in Genoa they know that these alliances, which can only be with Vox, will be decisive for their electoral expectations.
For this reason, the national leadership of the PP is going to get involved and will not leave the decision in the exclusive hands of its territorial leaders, no matter how much Feijóo tends to insist that he believes in the autonomy of the barons.
This time it's different.
Feijóo is going to control the post-electoral pacts throughout the territory in a "joint" negotiation of the leadership with the territorial leaders before Vox.
The dome foresees a dialogue on a national scale with the ultra formation,
The failed experience of Castilla y León, as they admit in the leadership, where Vox managed to enter the Government and place a profile like Juan García-Gallardo in the vice presidency, who has not stopped causing controversy after controversy, will lead Genoa to control the negotiation of the territorial pacts after the May elections.
Management sources put the vice president of Castilla y León as an example of what should not be repeated.
It is about avoiding "the emergence of many new Gallardos" after May 28, since it is taken for granted that it will be necessary to agree with the far-right party to achieve territorial power.
The PP will try to get Santiago Abascal's party into the fewest number of governments possible, and sources in the leadership maintain that they could even drop a position as long as the complete photograph harms Feijóo's career to La Moncloa as little as possible.
But, at the same time, in Genoa they recognize that they will not jeopardize the possibility of achieving power in territories as relevant as the Valencian Community, where the PP sees options for a reversal, even if that implies governing jointly with Vox.
The popular ones assume that the ultra party will also raise a global negotiation jointly analyzing how the sums of PP and Vox remain on the map of Spain.
The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, defended on Wednesday that the leadership control the agreements because the PP is "a national party, with the same campaign slogan" and, therefore, "the strategies are common."
"Our president trusts the territories 100%, but the strategy must be joint," argued Bendodo, who did not want to rule out agreements with the Abascal formation, although he insisted that the PP go out into the electoral race to "achieve large majorities." .
Nor has Feijóo at any time ruled out the agreements of the extreme right, aware that he will not be able to avoid them if he wants to wrest territorial power from the Socialists.
With little more than 40 days to go before the elections, the popular ones hope to uproot the governments of communities such as La Rioja and the Balearic Islands from the left, they hope to recover the autonomous city of Melilla and believe that they will be able to gain weighty mayoralties such as Valencia.
Feijóo has promised that the PP will win the municipal elections, and in Genoa they believe that they can go from having 10 to 25 provincial capitals.
The Valencian Community is the piece of big game, and although the popular ones have polls where they achieve first place, they do not take it for granted that they will evict the socialist baron Ximo Puig from the command chair.
The PP will focus on the negotiation with Vox in the programmatic agreements, trying to prevent the ultras from sneaking into them controversial measures that could wear them down, such as those that they have tried to carry out in Castilla y León to coerce women who want to have an abortion.
The popular are preparing to form a negotiating team with Vox, where some sources place the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, the campaign spokesman, Borja Sémper, and the deputy secretary Pedro Rollán as possible members.
In the popular leadership they believe that the extreme right party will want to take revenge against them and they are preparing for some “hard days” and to wage a great struggle after May 28.
Feijóo's obsession is that the agreements with Abascal do not hinder his chances of becoming the next Prime Minister in December.
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