He leader of the PP and candidate for the presidency of the Government, Alberto Nuñez Feijóothe campaign of the general elections in Catalonia. Specifically, it will Castelldefels, as EL PERIÓDICO has learned. A not trivial choice. In this town of Baix Llobregat, the popular ones managed to recover the mayoralty on May 28. They stayed one councilor away from achieving an absolute majority, but Manuel Reyes he managed to take the mayor’s rod again eight years later thanks to a pact with an exedil of the PSC.
It is not the first time that Feijóo has moved to Castelldefels. He already did it in April, when he held a rally to help Manu Reyes rise in the polls. Reyes, in addition to being mayor, is the president of the party in the province of Barcelona and one of the names that has been heard for a long time to relieve Alexander Fernandez as president of the Catalan PP.
In addition to Castelldefels, another visit from Feijóo is expected for the beginning of the second week of the campaign, this time foreseeably in Barcelona.
With this agenda, the leader of the PP strengthens his commitment to Catalonia. Already this weekend has moved to gimenells, in the Segrià region, to hold an event on the agri-food system and the rural world. Gimenells is another of the Catalan municipalities where the popular govern and its mayor, Dante Perezis the head of the list of the popular to Congress.
Besides, the Lleida province It is important for the popular ones because they could recover the deputy they lost in 2019, when only the first two names on the list for Barcelona led by Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo. In fact, the popular have lost and won this seat in several general elections.
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After the municipal ones, Feijóo has traveled to Catalonia on two more occasions. The first was three days after the elections, to participate in the Circle of Economy, and the other last Monday, when he presented his economic program at the Barcelona Seat Houseaccompanied by the party cadres and the main economic powers such as Foment del Treball, PIMEC or the Círculo Ecuestre.
There he assured that Catalonia can “count” on him and presented his recipe to “recover unity”. A recipe that, for the popular, involves creating jobs and better services, starting with the expansion of the El Prat airportbut far from giving any gesture to the independentistas.