All eyes were on the new direction of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the PP. first names, Cuca Gamarra and Elias Bendodo, cleared up the main unknowns and proved that the Galician president was not looking for a revolution. Rather integrate the party, reward “ability & rdquor; and forge a hard core that gets the formation on its feet in express time. The Andalusian pre-eminence with two heavyweights closely linked to Juanma Moreno, Bendodo and Juan Bravo, lives with people of Feijóo’s total trust: Esteban Gonzalez Pons and Miguel Tellado. But also with other names among which there is none from Castilla y León.
All despite the friendship that the Chairman of the Board has, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, with the Xunta (still), whom he has always supported as a benchmark in the party. Feijóo’s environment insists that the objective was not to comply with territorial quotas. But to the Andalusian and Galician, a name is added for Madrid: Pedro Rollán. Not so much for being trusted by Isabel Díaz Ayuso (whose weight, as this newspaper revealed, is diluted in Genoa) as for representing the region with extensive experience in the regional government. Sources consulted by this newspaper insist that if there is a region “blurred & rdquor; that is Castile and León.
The sensation in the territory, they indicate, is a certain “punishment & rdquor;. The events speak for themselves. In recent weeks the PP closed its first coalition government with Vox. Feijóo disassociated himself from that pact as he was not yet the party’s national president and gave Mañueco complete autonomy to pilot a pact that he did not like, but that he also saw as inevitable.
The president of the Xunta was in favor of retaining the presidency of the Castilian-Leonese Cortes since Vox would have seats in the government. But it couldn’t be either. Santiago Abascal’s party linked the two issues in the same package. Now, the investiture of Mañueco is in the hands of Carlos Pollán (Vox), president of the autonomous Parliament, which frustrated the PP’s plans to do it as soon as possible.
“Perhaps he did not see well that more options were not sought, the result of the pact and the speed&rdquor ;, different leaders agree with decades in the party, convinced that some issues did not please the new national leader. To the fact that Castilla y León will not be represented in the steering committeesame as Murcia after a stage in which Teodoro García Egea gave prominence to that land), joins “the surprise & rdquor; of the incorporation of carmen navarrodeputy for Albacete and autonomous lawyer of the Community of Madrid.
No one in the party was counting on his appointment, which implies that Castilla La-Mancha, where the PP does not govern, gain weight in the national leadership. Sources close to Paco Núñez, president of the Castilian Manchego PP, acknowledge this with some satisfaction.
The investiture, in the air
The PP would have wanted the president’s investiture to have taken place before the extraordinary congress to settle the matter before Feijóo was proclaimed the new national leader. But the president of the Cortes has not yet set a date and Mañueco’s team is still waiting. remains to be seen if Feijóo will attend the investiture or the inauguration in what could be the first meeting between the president of the PP and Santiago Abascal. The usual thing is that the party companions are present at one of the two milestones. All the barons attended the Puerta del Sol for Ayuso’s inauguration.
There are other territories pending how the first coalition government evolves. For example, on Andalusia, where Moreno Bonilla will have to decide if he calls elections in June or in the fall. To do it before the summer you must put a date in the month of April. The Andalusian PP is convinced that it will have a comfortable victory, but as always happens to the PP lately, the important thing is to what extent it needs Vox to govern. The concern is not minor and Moreno Bonilla knows that the brand of the ultras “is very strong & rdquor; regardless of the candidacy. In your case, if Macarena Olona takes the stepthe problems could be greater.
The issue is that there are leaders who recognize that they will be waiting for how Vox behaves in its first stages of management waiting for some kind of wear. “By agreeing on a government with them we have legitimized them as the ruling party. But now they have to prove & rdquor ;, explain popular sources. Also important will be the effect reflect the surveys on the arrival of Feijóo to the presidency and if there is a momentum in that direction. With all these ingredients, Moreno Bonilla will have to decide.