And now that? The bewilderment was total among the leaders of the PP after seeing the clash between the leader of the party, Pablo Marriedand the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, a value on the rise after its spectacular result in the May elections. The gazes of the deputies, regional presidents without control in governments and mayors consulted by this newspaper turned to the two barons with the most power in the party until the emergence of Ayuso: the presidents of Galicia and Andalusia, Alberto Núñez feijoo and Juanma Brown. According to sources familiar with the conversations between the two of them, they are both seeing with “restlessness” Y “discomfort” the fight between the two politicians and they consider that they have to do something to try to “calm the waters”. These sources did not want to specify what type of initiative could help this to happen, although they pointed out that, in the past, both had asked privately married dismissed his number two, Teodoro García Egea, for considering that he had not known how to “sew the party” after the extraordinary congress in which the current president of the PP prevailed over Soraya Saenz de Santamaria.
A phrase is constantly repeated in all conversations with the popular: “There can only be one left: Married or Ayuso.” On the first day of the explosion of the war, the solution to the internal crisis, without resignations or abandonments, it seemed very difficult. The impact of the information about the possible influence peddling of the president with her brother affects what is now the main asset of the PP. And it is unleashed when Vox has once again demonstrated, in Sunday’s elections in Castilla y León, that it is a threat to the hegemony of the popular in the space of the right.
“There can only be one: Married or Ayuso”, is repeated among the popular due to the inability to see an easy solution to such a crisis
“The confrontation is not managed with confrontation”, affirms a veteran party leader, grappled with similar crises in the recent past. “The leader has to protect himself, he doesn’t have to get involved in this. Married, don’t you remember how Rajoy acted with Soraya and [María Dolores] Cospedal?”, he continues. The discussion about the date of the PP congress, and the delay that irritated Ayuso so much, has been left as something inconsequential by questioning the very leadership of the party and the possible use of dirty war to discredit Ayuso Ayuso: It’s almost a personal matter.
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Feijóo and Moreno are calibrating the impact that this bitter internal battle has had on their leaders and on the bases of all of Spain, to make a decision. Never in the history of the party has such an open clash with the leader been seen. Hope Aguirre he feigned in 2008 with Rajoy, but did not come to blows. Because, according to sources from the surroundings of the two barons, you should never let it reach the leader, “it is fixed beforehand”, because, if not, it stays “weak“Should they help strengthen him? Do they want to do it? Do either of them see themselves facing Ayuso in a possible extraordinary congress? What is in the PP these days are many doubts and questions. too many. And now that?