The president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, telephoned the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez this Monday night Feijóo, to tell him that he does not want to start talks to facilitate his investiture as head of the central Executive. Feijóo had publicly announced hours before that he was going to try to reach an agreement with the PNV and Vox, in addition to the Canary Islands Coalition and the Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN), to go to an investiture and offer the Spanish an “alternative” government to that of Pedro Sánchez.
The PNV statement, sent at 9:58 p.m., frustrates the only option that the PP leader had to try to forge a alliance that will take him to Moncloa. The road was complicated, but he was willing to walk it, as Feijóo told his fellow ranks at the meeting of the national board of directors this Monday afternoon.
The background of Arrimadas
In the PP, and Isabel Díaz Ayuso mentioned it directly, they were afraid that it would sink in the comparison with Inés Arrimadas (citizens), who, being in the opposition in Catalonia, was the most voted in the regional elections of December 2017 (those held under the application of 155), but did not fight to be appointed for an investiture because she knew it would be unsuccessful. Feijóo did not want to be reproached for her inaction and this Monday, hours after insufficiently winning the generals (136 seats), she took a step forward that the PNV quickly neutralized. In the communiqué of the Basque nationalists, it is specified that the decision wasagreed at the meeting of the Euzkadi Buru Batzar (EBB), the party’s national executive committee.
The Galician politician argued before the national board of directors that he felt the obligation to try, because the other option, the one that Pedro Sánchez (122) can try to close with Sumar and the rest of the partners of recent years, is to form a “coalition of losers” that ends up giving “more power and more decision-making capacity than ever” to the pro-independence parties. Feijóo, who has achieved 136 deputies in Sunday’s elections, wanted to reach 176 absolute majority with an alliance of Vox (33 deputies), PNV (5), Unión del Pueblo Navarro (1) and Coalición Canaria (1). But the combination between two antithetical parties such as PNV and Vox has been unfeasible.
Basque Country celebrates regional elections in 2024 and any decision by the Basque nationalists has to take into account the impact there of their alliances in Madrid. The situation of the PNV is not easy at the moment, because they have lost their traditional power of influence in recent years in favor of EH Bildu, Sánchez’s regular partner this legislature. The coalition led by Arnaldo Otegi has managed to get more deputies to Congress than them for the first time: six against five.
The result of the generals was a ‘shock’ for the PP, which ended on Monday with another bad news. Feijóo’s official spokespersons They did not want to comment on the refusal of the PNV.
sadness in genoa
The members of the national board of directors (barons, mayors, parliamentarians…) arrived at the Genoa headquarters trying to put on their best face, although many were unable to hide it. Electoral night had ended in the worst possible way after weeks in which the euphoria had spread and everyone saw Feijóo in Moncloa. With or without Vox within the Government, but with Feijóo as president.
Now, the Galician politician and his team, who moved to Madrid 15 months ago when Ayuso won the pulse of paul marriedThey have to rethink their future. Nobody in the game wanted to talk about Feijóo this Monday and his career was cut short against the odds. He went out to prevent Sánchez from writing his ‘Handbook of resistance 2’ and, for now, it seems that he is not going to succeed.
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In the party there is no consensus on what the leader of the PSOE is going to do. Some barons believe that Sánchez is going to give in to everything that the Catalan independentistas ask of him to achieve his investiture (the Junts votes have special relevance), while other PP leaders believe that it would be necessary to “encourage electoral repetition” so that Feijóo has the opportunity to go to the polls again in a few months.
It is not known what the Galician politician will want. This Tuesday he will be in Santiago de Compostela on the occasion of the feast of the apostle. Strength is going to be needed after this totally unexpected result of 23J.