The crisis due to the departure of Olona and the return of voters to the PP that he detects in the polls encouraged the leader of the PP to reactivate the negotiation with the Government
Neither the change at the head of the PP leadership, in April, nor the overwhelming victory of the party in Andalusia, in June. Alberto Nunez Feijoo It has taken longer than some would have thought to launch to renew the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). It has done so now, at the beginning of October, when verifying, according to sources familiar with the decision, that Vox is going through the worst moment in its short history. in Genoa come to vox “lost” and they want to take advantage of the situation to reach a State pact that Feijóo needs to be credible when he says that it is a moderate leader seeking pacts with the government.
Since he became president of the PP he has not achieved either of these two things: he has used a high tone against Pedro Sánchez (whom he has branded as “authoritarian”, “inexperienced”, ”liar”, “populist” and “caudillista”) and has not supported the most important measures promoted by the Government, such as the decree on energy saving or the package that included the transportation aid and more money for scholarships.
The Government prefers not to comment on the reasons for the change: “We don’t want anything to distort the rapprochement,” says a minister
At the beginning of this month, however, as they continued to be first in most of the polls (except in that of the Center for Sociological Research, CIS) and witness Vox’s first internal crisis, with the departure of Macarena Olona from the party and your ad campaign threatening to found another partyFeijóo informed his negotiator in judicial matters, MEP Esteban González Pons, that they had to sit down with the government again to negotiate. In parallel, in addition, the resignation announced by the president of the CGPJ, Carlos Lesmes, after launching several requests to the parliamentary groups to renew the body, underpinned the decision of the leader of the popular.
The popular ones consider that the uncertainty due to the war has made voters return to the PP in search of its management experience
“Feijóo is the one who sent the signal to the Government and was proactive. Those of Vox do not know right now whether to ignore our measures and our statements or attack us. We have already said it in several internal meetings: they are lost & rdquor ;, affirms a PP baron aware of the deliberations of his chief of ranks. “We have finally managed to start adding the three forehands! Until now we had achieved it with Ciudadanos, but Vox was still very strong and now we are seeing in the polls that those voters are beginning to return to the PP & rdquor ;, points out another regional president of the party.
the ukrainian war
Sources from the parliamentary group consider that the turning point in the competition with Vox has been the ukrainian war and the “uncertainty” that it has generated “at all levels: in the economy, in security, in the fear that there are problems with basic supplies…”. Faced with these fears, these sources assure, Feijóo is managing to give “a credible alternative” to the Government of Pedro Sánchez and is attracting old voters who feel safer with the PP, which has experience of management in the Government, communities and municipalities for decades, than with Vox.
This strength of popular acronyms gives Feijóo peace of mind to be able to renew the CGPJ now, after almost four years with the mandate expired and after the PP has been changing excuses to maintain the blockade. It must be remembered that in the autumn of 2018, his predecessor at the head of the PP, Pablo Casado, had reached an agreement with Sánchez, but the popular ones blew it up by themselves when a message from Ignacio Cosidó, then spokesman for the popular ones in the Senate, was made public. , in which he boasted that they had agreed that the president of the CGPJ would be Manuel Marchena, so that the PP could control “from behind & rdquor; the second chamber of the Supreme Court. He was referring to the room that is competent to prosecute deputies, senators and members of the Government.
Adjusted result in Andalusia
Upon reaching the leadership of the PP, Feijóo made it clear that he would not negotiate anything until the regional elections in Andalusia were over, something that happened on June 19. But after those elections and with the absolute majority of Juanma Moreno, Feijóo did not feel confident to agree on the judiciary in the summer. It has been the Vox crisis, which went to the polls with Olona headlining and only managed to add two seats to the 12 that they already had, the one that has finished convincing him.
In the Government they do not want to comment on the reasons that have led the PP to leave the blockade. “We don’t want anything to distort the approach. For whatever reason, Feijóo has decided to comply with the Constitution and renew the judiciary & rdquor ;, responds a minister of the Executive.