“Elias, this year you have to get the rice by the ears. You have to get to June almost hating rice”. This has been the advice that a political adviser has given to the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, who is also a campaign manager for the municipal and regional of May 28. The Valencian Community heads the list of autonomies that the party wants to recover at the polls because of what it symbolizes for the power of the popular, who held the presidency between 1995 and 2015. “Achieving Valencia would send a clear message to our voters before the generals. If we also got some, between Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura, better, but Valencia is key“, confesses a deputy secretary of the leadership of the PP, who confirms the strategy of intensifying the presence in that community. Whenever they move, they appear in the main media next to Carlos Mazon, candidate for the Generalitat and they are trying to strengthen him against his opponent and ‘president’, Ximo Puig (PSOE).
The internal polls conducted by the popular now predict a tie with the socialists and, adding Vox, they would reach an absolute majority. With that autonomy marked in red, Alberto Núñez Feijóo decided weeks ago to organize the usual conclave of mayors and mayors that is always held before an election at the Valencia Science Museum.
There, this Saturday and Sunday, the popular will try to build muscle before the Valencians with the senior staff of the party in the city and Feijóo has managed to promote a public meeting that did not take place, sources from the current leadership emphasize, since 2015: the former presidents Jose Maria Aznar and Mariano Rajoy will participate on Saturday afternoon in the colloquium “Experiences of Government of the PP”. It must be remembered that Aznar came to resign from the honorary presidency of the formation, in 2016, due to the numerous disagreements with Rajoy, then in Moncloa, because he considered that he was in charge of a party with a complex and was not managing the situation well. independence challenge.
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The eloquent title of the talk responds to Feijóo’s desire to show that his party has a long resume before other parties with little (Ciudadanos) or no management experience (Vox). That capital will also be exhibited at a table moderated by the mayor of Madrid (Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida) with mayors and presidents of councils and councils; another on municipalism (led by the candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Dani Sirera), and a last one that will vindicate the weight of the women of the PP in the mayoralties. This third table will include a tribute to Rita Barberá, who governed the city of Valencia and died in November 2016, two months after resigning from the PP, at the request of Rajoy, due to his involvement in a corruption case for alleged money laundering. That pressure on Valencian politics generated division in the party, also between Rajoy and Aznar at that time, and has left a bitter aftertaste for some leaders of that time, because the judicial cases of corruption that directly affected him were filed.
Feijóo will close the conclave on Sunday at noonafter the candidate for mayor of Valencia, María José, spoke Catalanwho aspires to unseat Joan Ribó (Compromís), and Mazón.