The main objective of the PP is Begoña Villacís because of her pull and her own profile. Arrimadas raises more doubts due to the wear and tear that he entails as a leader and the urgency of his own leadership
While Ciudadanos toils in an internal war that is difficult to solve, the PP remains alert and pending the outcome that could open a new scenario in the center right from the month of January, when the oranges finalize their general assembly. The public message has grown in recent hours and they not only acknowledge “having the doors of Genoa open to talent& rdquor; but Alberto Núñez Feijóo himself assured that there are people inside and some who have already left the formation “who are usable & rdquor ;. Although all the leaders avoid putting names and surnames, in the environment of Feijóo they assure this newspaper that who they are “They know it perfectly and first-hand that they have the door open and options within the PP& rdquor;.
The main target for the conservatives is the deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, with its own prominent profile in the capital and the only one that maintains hope in the polls. With Ines Arrimadas there are more doubts about wear that she has suffered as party leader and because of the ordeal to which her own party is subjecting her with Edmundo Bal at the helm. Finding a way to come together or bring about a rapprochement, even before this internal crisis broke out, has always been the greatest of difficulties. The two leaders have denied very emphatically and on many occasions that they were going to join the ranks of the PP.
But in Genoa, where there is concern about bringing together the entire center and center-right vote (and aware that there is a small percentage of Ciudadanos voters who will never go to the popular initials) they assure that there are ways for these leaders and also powerful ex-charges can be part of the Feijóo project in a kind of “internal current & rdquor;.
They reiterate that in the sum that the conservative leader tries party card is not requiredNo affiliation, no single thought. On the contrary: they assure that the challenge that lies ahead for the Galician leader is to continue uniting different sensibilities (more conservative, more liberal and even social democrats) within the acronym of the PP.
Feijóo predicted in an interview on ‘Onda Cero’ this Wednesday, in full hangover from Constitution Day, that the orange party “must say goodbye in the most dignified way possible because the polls will not give them representation& rdquor ;. He gave as an example the case that hurts the most within Ciudadanos: Andalusia. Because after almost four years of coalition government and with “good management,” said Feijóo, “zero deputies were removed.”
It is the first time that the PP leader has spoken with such precision: “In that game there are still people who have talent, and people who are no longer in the game and who also have talent. And I honestly believe that they are usable. But the Ciudadanos project, at this time when the PP is broadening its ideological orientation, is subsumed in the PP”. There are no doubts within the message and as explained by popular leaders, in the coming weeks they will be even more explicitwithout crossing any red line before the orange congress concludes.
The situation is not easy because in the environment of the conservative leader they also consider that the internal process of Ciudadanos, which is already leaning into the abyss and which will hardly end without many fallen along the way, could make the situation very muddy. They explain that the best thing would have been to avoid this crisis from which “broken toys” will emerge. and have agreed to try to negotiate a way out. A scenario that in no case are the leaders of the liberal party considering right now, who consider it crucial to finish the general assembly in January (the congress from which a new leadership will emerge) to address future scenarios.
Of the most prominent ex-leaders and to whom the PP have not taken their eyes off, there is never Luis Garicano, the signing that Albert Rivera made for the economic program in his day and who is the maker of great pacts with PSOE (the attempted agreement in 2016 with Pedro Sánchez) and with Rajoy’s PP (General Budgets). When the economist left his MEP certificate in July to definitively separate himself from the Ciudadanos project and teach at Columbia, his environment already recognized El Periódico de España, from the Prensa Ibérica group, which the door was not closed to return to politics.
In fact, many leaders close to him insisted on valuing his “trajectory& rdquor; and the possibilities in the future if there was a change of government, “given his profile & rdquor ;. The weakness of Ciudadanos and the discrepancies with the leadership of Inés Arrimadas were the key factors for his departure, convinced that he had to separate himself from the wear and tear of the formation.