Feijóo assumes that he will govern after 23-J and avoids any directive on pacts with Vox

It sounded What a wonderful world when Alberto Núñez Feijóo has entered this Tuesday at the headquarters of the PP in Madrid accompanied by all the popular regional leaders, six of them new presidents after the elections of May 28, in a paseíllo prepared to exhibit muscle and euphoria. The PP does not want to end the party of its victory in the municipal and regional elections, and the meeting of the National Board of Directors, the highest body between congresses, has been prepared as another celebration, almost devoid of political content, because the main strategic issue that the party must face after the appointment with the polls, the agreements with Vox to govern in six communities and a few municipalities, has been avoided by Feijóo. In his speech to the barons, the popular leader has not transmitted any directive or instruction on the agreements with the extreme right, necessary for the PP to come to power. Instead, he has taken for granted that he will govern after the generals of July 23: "I asked to return the pride to the PP as the first force and take the first step so that there is a new Government and, in view of the tsunami that occurred, everything seems to indicate that we are going to have it. "

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The victory of the PP propels Feijóo towards the generals, but fails to disassociate himself from Vox

Infected by the euphoria that runs through the PP, the leader has been very confident in his possibilities. "I have already saved the nation five months of sanchismo," Feijóo has taken out his chest, who, however, has asked his people to help him now to achieve victory in the generals. "One more push is needed. Sanchismo only has one chance: that we get tired and trust each other," he warned them.

But not a word about the challenge facing the PP from now on to govern in the six autonomous communities in which it has joined with Vox. Feijóo does not want to stain himself or want to focus on pacts with the extreme right that he knows harm him, so he continues to gain time and avoid the problem. All he has left is a somewhat cryptic message, but one that reveals his intention not to be put in a block with Vox. "No one will be able to take us back to any trenches, because Spain has come out of them. We are going to advance in unity without blocks," he said in a speech in which he also slipped as a veiled message to the ultras that the polls have dictated, in his opinion, that citizens want "strong, stable and responsible governments." That is, governments alone of the PP, the desire of the popular leadership, which remains to be seen that Vox accepts.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, this Tuesday, at the headquarters of the PP in Madrid.Álvaro García

The PP studies, in any case, take advantage of the electoral advance to kick forward and postpone the agreements with the extreme right until after July 23, as some of the main barons have revealed. The Andalusian president, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, has hinted that the PP intends that move. "There is no hurry in the dialogue with the rest of the political forces, including Vox. There is more than enough time, and we do not have to have any anxiety or any kind of haste when it comes to establishing those relations with Vox and with other political formations."

The other thesis in the PP is to force Vox to give him their free votes, pressuring them with a possible punishment in the generals, something that Santiago Abascal has already warned that he will not do. "The PP has obtained an extraordinary result, and whoever does not want there to be PP governments, will have to give explanations of why they do not want there to be PP governments," challenged the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, upon his arrival at the meeting.

Feijóo does not want to talk about pacts with Vox, but continues to try to strike the PSOE with Bildu. In his speech to the barons, the leader of the popular has offered the votes of the PP "at the service of constitutionalism to withdraw Bildu any possibility of government" in the Basque Country and Navarra.

The president of the PP sees the expeditious path to La Moncloa and this Tuesday has received another good news with the decision of the dome of Citizens not to present themselves to the elections of July. Feijóo thanked that party for the "exercise of maturity and responsibility" that he believes will earn the PP the 302,199 votes that CS achieved on 28-M.

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