If you are going to remember an image ofthe balcony of Genoa on July 23, 2023, that will be that of Isabel Díaz Ayuso first with a sad face and, later, with a face of circumstances when supporters of the PP began to chant her last name while Alberto Núñez Feijóo spoke. Ayuso’s political ability swept the presidency of Pablo Casado and she has always been an element to take into account at this stage with Feijóo. The Galician politician, more skilled than Casado, has known how to live with her in these 15 months that he has been leading the conservative formation, although that image last night aroused some fear in the Feijóo environment and in some relevant PP baronies.
“I don’t think I’ll do anything, because there’s no climate for that“, one of the most relevant regional leaders of the party responded this morning to EL PERIÓDICO. The “for that” is to try to overthrow Feijóo before there is a hypothetical electoral repetition. “Ayuso has not called me, but if he does, I will tell him that Alberto has won the elections and deserves to continue leading,” says another conservative baron.
This climate is the one that will be held this afternoon at the PP headquarters, in Calle de Génova, the meeting of the national board of directors that Feijóo summoned last night. All the leaders of the party are summoned to this meeting, including barons, parliamentarians, mayors of large cities… And because there is this sea of background, the party leadership has sent a brief statement repeating what has been known since last night and that various party leaders interpret as a notice to boaters: the Galician politician is going to try to win support for his investiture. It is very difficult for him, because it would be adding the wishes of Vox and the PNV, among other parties, but he is going to roll up his sleeves and try to achieve it. That is to say: Feijóo has a roadmap and he is going to start up.
In the statement it is said that the leader of the popular “talks will begin immediately with other political parties in search of obtaining the necessary support for his inauguration as Prime Minister” because he has been the candidate with the most votes. “After summoning the PSOE candidate at night to maintain contacts in the coming days, he will soon contact VOX to begin to find out first-hand his impressions regarding the new Legislature. He will also speak to other parties in the parliamentary arc. In some cases, he even knowing that his support will not be possible and, in others, to explore the availability of those parties (as in the cases of Union of the Navarro People and Canary Islands Coalition) to vote ‘yes’ to his candidacy in the Congress of Deputies”, ends the text. The leadership of the PP does not speak at any time of meeting with the PNV.
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The message has been read by all those who are going to attend the national board of directors, so when they meet the journalists at the entrance, they know what to expect, because they know what Feijóo has said again today that he wants.
Sources from Puerta del Sol have not wanted to comment early this morning on this internal tension that several leaders detect and assure that Ayuso is not thinking of a “change of candidacy” if there is a repeat election. “She is with the agenda for the day,” they said. She today she has had an interview with the Moroccan ambassador, Karima Benyaich.