“Count on me”. “I’m here for whatever you want.” The leaders of the PP are sending an avalanche of ‘preventive’ messages to the colleagues who consider that they have numbers to paint something in the new dome of Alberto Núñez feijoo. Some of them are the same ones who sent appreciative wasaps to Pablo Married until a few hours before publicly asking him to resign. “Reading those messages now hurts”, sighs one of the last faithful people to the still president of the PP.
The leader of the Government of Galicia will be elected the new leader of the Conservatives this Saturday in the Congress of Seville and he has not given any clue as to who will make up his new team. “He will not have told him or the collar of his shirt,” jokes one of those leaders whom everyone points to as one of the future bosses. “What they don’t know is that Feijoo hasn’t called me…. Although, if he had, he wouldn’t tell you either, because we all know he doesn’t like anything leaking. Go figure! Piss him off before you start,” he continues.
“Feijóo is asking for advice from those who have nothing to gain, from whom he believes he can trust”, affirms a former collaborator of Rajoy
To make this new dome, Feijóo has asked lists of names to the barons most relevant to the party. Four of them have confirmed to EL PERIÓDICO that a few days ago they were told by people from their circles who believe they could be useful in the new stage that the party opens, although the Galician leader, according to these sources, has not returned the call by anticipating his conclusion. In that decision process he is also having a relevant role. Mariano Rajoywith whom Feijóo speaks regularly since the implosion of the PP, in the middle of the month of February. According to sources familiar with these contacts, the former president is answering the calls made by the Galician chief executive and giving him all the advice that the future leader asks of him.
The primaries, a problem for Rajoy
Rajoy, in his latest book “Politics for Adults” admits that he was wrong when he modified the party’s statutes so that the president of the party is elected in primaries. As he has said publicly, he got carried away “for populism” and the requests to give greater internal democracy without measuring the consequences. The result of 2018 is already known: Casado beat Soraya Sáenz from Santa Maria in that battle. If the PP had kept the ‘dedazo’, Rajoy would have chosen his former vice president. No one ever doubted what his preference was. Nor Feijóo, who did not take the step because he knew that Santamaría was his favorite.
“I’m here for whatever you want”: the PP leaders are sending “precautionary” messages to colleagues who consider they have numbers to be in the new leadership
“Alberto is asking for advice from someone who has nothing to gain or lose, who he thinks he can trust,” says one of Rajoy’s former collaborators. “He is talking to him and also to Javier. sands“, he points out about the former vice president and former Minister of Labor with Jose Maria Aznar. Arenas, however, denied Tuesday afternoon to this newspaper that he is acting as a “counselor” and downplays his relationship with the future leader. Discretion is the trademark of the Galician and no one wants to go off script.
The former minister sided with Sáenz de Santa Maria in 2018 and continues to be a senator by autonomous designation of the Junta de Andalucía, because the president of that autonomy, Juanma, asked Pablo Casado to do so. Brown. Married did not want it to continue.
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“Arenas is going to the Senate more than ever. He likes politics and wants it to be seen that he is active again. He is doing reports for Feijóo,” says a colleague.
The separated by Married
The leaders of the PP take it for granted that they will announce in Seville the names of what will be their team. It has no obligation, it should not even disclose the name of its general secretary, for example, but after the earthquake that the formation has experienced with the fall of Pablo Married, the popular leaders want to know who will accompany the captain in this new voyage. A common wish is that Feijóo manages to “sew” the game. And those stitches go by a few names: Isabel Bonig, Alfonso Alonso and Asier Antona, among others. The three of them, among many others, were removed from their posts in Valencia, Euskadi and the Canary Islands by Casado and his number two, Teodoro García Egea.