The image of rapprochement between the Government and the Board is unthinkable at the national level or with other communities such as Madrid
When not even two weeks have passed since Pedro Sánchez was sworn in as president with the support of all the nationalist and independence parties in Congress, the Government and the Junta of Andalusia, led by the popular Juan Manuel Moreno, sealed a political agreement of maximum relevance around the Doñana National Park. The matter had been going on for many months, it threatened to turn against the Andalusian Executive if Justice and the European Union itself ended up intervening and, furthermore, it needed a solution for all parties.
The agreement reached implies an image of unthinkable rapprochement at the national level or with other autonomous administrations such as that of Madrid, and anticipates the difficulties that the PP will have to carry out a work of cohesive opposition. Precisely, on the same day of the Doñana agreement, Isabel Diaz Ayuso another war began for the new Tagus Hydrological Plan “that seeks to render the region thirsty.” A few hours later the last confrontation arrived for the inauguration of the Pajares variant, a new high-speed connection between Madrid and Asturias, to which Ayuso is not invited this Wednesday. “We will never invite the Government to Community events,” responded those around them.
What is clear is that the photograph that Andalusia left this Monday, a clear tuning between the vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and the Andalusian president —who they shared a ride before the marshes, binoculars, and even a car on two occasions—has had a full impact on the start of the new legislature in which the popular ones will bet on a ‘tough opposition’ in Congress. The recent appointment of Miguel Tellado‘strong man’ by Alberto Núñez Feijóo in Galicia, confirms that this will be the tone.
Feijóo himself has been insisting on the same idea for days: “When the independentistas fail, that Sánchez does not look at the PP”. The only exception that he verbalized a few days ago is the fight against gender violence, where he guaranteed that his party will always be there. That State pact is the only one they see as salvageable.
The understanding with the socialists, they recognize in Genoa, “it’s impossible” in the rest of the areas. After Doñana’s photo, the national leadership defends the political autonomy of all regional governments, including the Andalusian one; but they do not hide that at this moment there is no possible simile in national politics. And they admit that managing your opposition will be complicated at some moments in which their regional governments will sit down to talk with Sánchez’s. As published THE NEWSPAPER OF SPAINfrom the Prensa Ibérica group, after the agreement between the PSOE and ERC became known, debt forgiveness It can also open another avenue of water in the position that the PP is going to maintain. Above all, because there are communities that are very affected.
Moreno’s strategy
President Moreno is not going to stop biting the PSOE and Sánchez at a time of strong social discontent in the streets due to the amnesty and other pacts with the independentists. The leader of the Andalusian PP does not plan to stop raising the flag against the grievance, which brings so much benefit to this community, but he understands that to do so with more credibility he has to reach agreements when it is of interest to his region. Doñana was a clear case. The exit was very ugly and the president He was trapped. Approving with Vox, Moreno already dislikes that, a proposed irrigation law that was going to be appealed to the Constitutional Court and that was going to trigger severe fines from Brussels would take its toll on him.
This Wednesday, when Moreno takes on his first state of the community debate of this legislature, he will resume his tough profile against Sánchez. He will do it with two defused bombs in front of the opposition. Doñana, with all the criticism from the scientific community and international organizations resolved; and the fact that No one can tell you that your main occupation is to confront with the Government of the nation. That message against him that he only looks at Madrid and has abandoned Andalusia, and that the left defends so much, is deflated. On the sidelines of Doñana, the Andalusian president shared an excursion, official car and conversation with Ribera: his concern about the droughthis time at the Committee of the Regions last week in Brussels, his concern about the impact of climate change… “Two political leaders must be able to talk about common problems,” they defend.
It is true that having been the first regional president of the PP to seal an agreement with the Government is not trivial. Following this dynamic, one can guess that if the time comes and the Ministry of Finance presents Andalusia with a figure that is close to the 17,000 million that Moreno asked forthe community will join the remove debt designed for Catalonia. The Andalusian is one of Feijóo’s main strikers, but the management’s interest for the Andalusians will prevail. “The president does not think about a national leap, he does not do politics to lead any opposition, he is focused on Andalusia,” his people repeat.
Lead the opposition… with many governments
In reality, Feijóo entered fully into the Doñana conflict months ago when he accused Ribera of “lying” about a conversation that both had with the intention of unblocking the situation. The vice president explained in an interview with THE NEWSPAPER OF SPAIN that his objective was for Feijóo to “help,” but that Feijóo “responded that he didn’t want to know anything.” The Galician leader also complained that the vice president “frivolized” with the problem of drought in Spain and considered that his Ministry “played with the thousand families & rdquor; who depend on agriculture in that enclave.
Added to this very harsh position on the Natural Park, which in the case of Feijóo was never redirected, is the confrontation that in recent weeks has escalated between PP and PSOE. on all fronts: Sánchez’s investiture pact with the amnesty law in hand and, now, foreign policy following the president’s trip to the Middle East. There is not a single issue that has brought positions together. Quite the opposite.
Regarding the first, the PP is determined to take the battle to the end. The strategy now involves internationalizing the future amnesty law and european elections next year will become a kind of plebiscite against Sánchez and their pacts. This Monday Feijóo participated in a European PP conference, which acted as the starting signal for that pre-campaign in the city of Barcelona, where he had the support of the main leaders of the conservative family.
These elections are key for Feijóo, to the point that many in the party consider that “your future is at stake” to consolidate the alternative to Sánchez. The PP needs to win that electoral event and for all the territories to turn. Meanwhile, the popular ones will have to deal with a totally confrontational opposition in Congress and in governments such as Madrid’s, while others face possible agreements with Sánchez.