Figo before the leadership of the People’s Party: “We did not reach all our expectations”

In front of the staff of the PP, who had gathered the day after the general elections for his most bitter victory, Alberto Núñez Figo sang the first Middle East and Africa neglect. Excusing the polls not all, except for the CIS and 40dB, the leader of the People’s Party said, “With the same sharpness with which the elections failed, we did not reach expectations.” For EL PAÍS and la SER―they said the right would easily add to oust Pedro Sánchez from power. Feijóo justified himself in having raised the bar too high for the People’s Party—and he himself had not ruled out in a special session only a week earlier an absolute majority alone—in the face of the internal criticism he began to hear about the fact that, by doing so, he could cause a surge of confidence in the right. The PP candidate argued in his speech to the National Governing Council, in which he also insisted that he would try to form a government, despite the fact that both Vox and PNV had previously ruled out his proposed formulation of government: “I do not regret asking to win more than those who are content to lose for less”.

Figo told the Popular Command that this morning he had contacted five parties, including the Socialist Workers Party, to try to form a government, because he claims that it is his “duty” to present himself for the position being the first force, with 136 seats. According to the popular leader, he has been summoned to speak with Pedro Sanchez again when the counting of the votes of residents abroad, scheduled for next weekend, becomes known. Feijóo also maintains that the UPN, which has a seat, has confirmed its support for him, and that the Canary Islands Alliance, which also has a deputy, has “got its way”. He also contacted the head of PPV (5) and Vox (33), whom he had also arranged to speak again. However, these last two parties of the day were sure to exclude their support for the People’s Party. Itsaso Atutxa, the leader of the National Party in Bizkaia, stressed that the peneuvist party excluded him on Monday because of his “democratic values” and his refusal to “whitewash and legalize Vox” by the People’s Party. The far right, for its part, refused to give Feijóo free support while the PNV was in the equation. “There can be no national vote with a separatist party: it is impossible,” confirmed Ignacio Garriga, Secretary General of Vox.

Although the prospects for Feijóo’s practical inauguration seemed remote, the People’s Party leader insisted he would try. “We cannot allow the Spaniards to be trapped in blocs or blockades or allow our country to become Balkanised,” he gravely said. My duty is to lead the talks for a government in Spain.” In his team they later realized that there were “very few” prospects for his office to flourish.

Feijóo moved quickly despite his insufficient victory, which Isabel Diaz Ayuso summed up graphically as he arrived at the board meeting. “We are not with the parties,” said the Madrid president. Despite this, the barons united around the leader, although Ayusu did not look very convincing. Is Figo’s leadership in question? Reporters asked him at the entrance. Laconi replied, “I don’t think so.” Subsequently, the Madrid leader endorsed her support for Figo to run as a candidate for prime minister in the event of a repeat election. He represented Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, president of Andalusia, and the other baron with the greatest weight in the party.

PP leadership still in case shock. Famous people woke up on Monday without finishing believing themselves yet The nightmare of bitter victoryan insufficient victory in the general election, leaving Figo with very few options to become head of government.

Today, the leadership of the People’s Party raised the idea of ​​blockade and repeat elections. The Secretary-General, Coca Jamara, stressed first thing in the morning: “Either Vigo will be inaugurated, or there will be a blockade and an electoral repeat.” Feijóo intends to go for office, though the other option he is considering is for the PSOE to let him rule. The People’s Leader will offer approval to “four or five challenges” to the country in exchange for his abstention, according to People’s Party campaign spokesman Borja Siempre, ignoring that the People’s Party has made “abolition of the Sanchismo” its campaign slogan and platform.

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Thus, Feijóo’s next movement would consist of Talking to Pedro Sanchez to try to convince him to abstain from his inauguration. The leader of the People’s Party and the leader of the PSOE have already exchanged the first messages last night, in which he did not congratulate Sanchez Figo on his victory as a first force, as the People’s Party complains. Notwithstanding this, and the fact that last night the Socialist President appeared in a triumphant mood because he had a chance of obtaining a parliamentary sum to reaffirm his government, the popular people continue to claim that the Socialist Workers Party has allowed them to rule. The People’s Party is now proposing to the Socialists a kind of conditional abstention, in exchange for approval of various affairs of state, although they do not make clear how this will be possible when their platform proposes repeal or counter-reform of most progressive executive power laws.

Borja Semper argued that in order for governance not to depend on pro-independence parties, the best thing would be an agreement between the two major parties, but with Figo as president. “We have to rethink the dynamics,” Simper expressed at RNE. “The first thing Feijóo will call the PSOE is, and he will ask him: Do you agree to look for alternative formulas that allow the government not to depend on the parties that want to leave Spain?” The Speaker proposed an agreement with the Socialists, not for a grand coalition, as he specified, but for something akin to a legislative agreement. “If we can identify four or five challenges awaiting us, we have room for PSOE and PP to come to an agreement,” he suggested, realizing, at the same time, that promoting that option with last night’s result was “almost inexperienced.”

The problem with the People’s Party is that this argument itself is to avoid the possibility of governing dependent on freelancers It can also be turned against it, like a boomerang. At the RNE, journalist Íñigo Alfonso asked the speaker if Labor would be willing to abstain. Sanchez’s inauguration So separatists don’t enter the equation. Semper replied, “That scenario is now unimaginable, but the winner starts a round of talks.” However, in PP they admit that “Spain is a parliamentary monarchy and the majority must be formed,” Cuca Gamarra admitted on Telecinco, also realizing that “the scenario is very complex”.

The People’s Leadership, like the leader, recognizes the result of last night – the People’s Party is the first power, with 136 seats, But it does not add up with Vox– Below expectations. “We went from 89 seats to 136, and it’s not bad, but the expectations were elsewhere,” Semper conceded, noting the error in the polls, but also based on his own assessment of reality. Perhaps the polls were too high. Both our polls and our calculations were far above what would have been possible.” The leadership begins to analyze the reasons for the failure in its aspirations and points to the “accumulation of circumstances” as it penalizes agreements with Vox. “It must be appreciated. Very little time has passed. If you appeal to the fact that the future has to go through agreements with PSOE, some don’t like it; If you appeal to the possibility of reaching agreements with Vox on governance, in any of its formulations, others do not like it … “, the speaker retracted.

PP clamored internally this morning With an analysis of what happened Some commanders point to the mistakes of Feijóo’s campaign. “I’m starting to think so Medicine is socially acceptable in Galiciabut perhaps not in the rest of Spain… There has been a shift in the past four days coinciding with the introduction of this issue on the media agenda, “analyzes one of them, referring to For the friendship of the leader of the People’s Party with drug trafficker Marcial Dorado three decades ago. In the last week of the campaign, Feijóo tried to rationalize it by saying that when they were friends he was just a “smuggler”.

Feijóo would now have to manage his own internal leadership of the People’s Party, now without the cabal of politicians who only got an absolute majority. Eyes will continue to be focused on Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who was last night, on the balcony of Genoa, the supporters of the People’s Party. They chanted as Figo spoke: “Ayusu, Ayusu!”.

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