“They’re being clever. They’re letting her do it.” The phrase has been repeated many times these months in the mouths of leaders of the dome of Pablo Casado. The ex-leader of the PP fell into disgrace a year ago due to the deadly battle he lost with Isabel Diaz Ayuso and his successor, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has been able to better think about what type of relationship suits him with the president of the Community of Madrid.
After the mythical first meeting that they shared together in the primary campaign, last March, in which Ayuso told Feijóo that he did not have “stamina for impositions” and he told her that, when he met her, he thought she was a politics without a future the two acquired a position that, in diplomatic language, could be described as “non-aggression pact”. That armistice, several Genoa leaders consulted by EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA point out, will end on May 28, the day of the municipal and regional elections. If the polls carried out at the headquarters and also at Puerta del Sol are met, Ayuso will win the elections, but he will not be sweeping. And without an absolute majority, these sources affirm, Feijóo and the rest of the leadership (in which there is no person related to Madrid politics) they will have more leeway to slow you down on some issues.
The Galician leader and his deputy secretaries have been biting their tongues for almost a year with some issues in which the president of the Community has put the discordant note, because she wanted it that way or because she has gone ahead without waiting to see what the leader of the issue thought in question: he went out against the government energy saving measures without consulting management, he said openly that he is against that governs the most voted list (which Feijóo defends), celebrated the drop in unemployment in December while the boss assured that the figures are made up, uses judgmental language bordering on insults and maintains an open clash with the doctors, in strike since last November that Genoa would like to see resolved. He worries about the impact on the municipalities and fears that the malaise will spread to other autonomies governed by the PP.
“We have three silent months left,” admits a member of the leadership in private
“We have three silent months left”, admits a member of the leadership in private. They do not want to imagine an Ayuso with absolute majority in the party and even more sure of herself. A thunderous result at the polls would allow the other baron to speak face to face with that weight (Juanma Moreno, in Andalusia) and be even more crested with Feijóo. Although in the party the mood is not for too many tangles yet. “What we don’t need between May and December [cuando supuestamente serán las elecciones generales] is to return to internal noise”, says a regional leader. “I hope they’re smart and, whether it’s because Ayuso loses steam or because it is even more powerful, no one raise your voice. It is Feijóo’s turn and we all have to row with him,” sighs a well-matched deputy with the PP leader.
The popular believe that the motion of no confidence may be the beginning of the decline of Vox, which they want to sink up to 20 seats in the polls
“Three or four” people from Genoa
In the coming weeks, the Madrid leader, who also chairs the party in Madrid (the main problem of the clash with Casado a year ago), will draw up the lists to the municipal and autonomic ones. Both in their team and in Genoa, they consider that it is common for the president of the popular to place “three or four” people they trust on the list for the Parliament regional and for the City hall from Madrid. “But no more than those, We are not going to make a war on this topic nor do we want to impose anything strange on it,” they say in the national leadership.
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In Sol they refuse to comment on the change in dynamics in the relationship between Feijóo and Ayuso that the May elections may entail and stress that she “will go out for the PP to win.” Remember that, in Andalusia, Moreno won the absolute with 43.13% of the votes and that, on the other hand, in the May 2021 elections in Madrid, Ayuso will get the 44.73% of the ballots It did not bring him that same prize. Sources from her team assure that the doctors’ strike is not taking any toll on the president in the polls, neither in valuation nor in voting intention.
Both in Sol and in Genoa they trust that the motion of censure that Vox will defend in March against Pedro Sánchez and for which he has presented Ramón Tamames as a candidate for the presidency of the Government, serve for the citizens to verify that the party of Santiago Abascal is a fiasco and that parliamentary debate is the turning point of his slope. The goal of Feijóo’s team is to sink Vox up to 20 seats in general polls. At the moment, the average of the polls gives him 43 (compared to the 52 seats he now has in Congress).