second primaries of the history of the PP and they could not be more bland. Although a blessed routine, the party leaders will think after the traumatic month of February that they experienced with the operation to overthrow Pablo Casado. This Monday, the first round was held to elect the new party leader, who will be Alberto Nunez Feijoo, because he is the only candidate in this race. They registered 41,681 members to be able to vote and in the end 36,974 did so, of which 36,781 gave their support to the Galician politician. The rest were invalid ballots.
What percentage do these 36,781 represent among the total militants that the party has? It is unknown, since the PP does not provide an official number of members and refers to the figure of 700,000, which also includes supporters, who do not pay a fee. Neither Married nor Mariano Rajoy updated a list with which you could see the real muscle of the formation after the irruption of its competitor vox three and a half years ago.
Feijóo ruled out participating in the voting day, to give prominence to the militancy. Married, still president of the popular ones, he did. There was a photo, but no words. The conservative leader is on his way out and, despite holding office until congress from Seville from April 1-2, is keeping a very low profile.
The regional presidents, whether they had command in the square or not, and high officials of the PP took advantage of the moment of the vote in the headquarters of all Spain to highlight the figure of the Galician politician and say what they expect of him. One of the earliest risers was the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martinez-Almeida. The first mayor demanded that the members come to vote “to show their support and affection to Feijóo”.
“Self confidence”
Isabel Diaz Ayusopresident of the Community of Madrid, highlighted the “peace” that the candidate has already led the conservative ranks, of whom he said that he does not have to prove “his worth”, because “he has already been everything” in politics and that he has garnered “large absolute majorities”. Four, to be specific .All in Galicia.For Ayuso, “that tranquility and that self-confidence is basic”, although she knows that the Galician will be able to maintain those skills more easily thanks to her.The Madrid leader already read the primer last week in the first act they starred in together, when he warned him that the Madrid PP is not here for “nonsense” or to put up with “impositions”.
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“Albert [Núñez Feijóo] represents a hopeful future not only for the militants of the PP but also for Spain”, declared Juanma Brown, president of the Junta de Andalucía and key in the clamp with the Galician leader and Ayuso to unseat the current leadership. For the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, his Galician counterpart “has reillusioned” the party after the clash between Casado and Ayuso, a crisis that he considers over.
After the vote of the bases, on April 1, already in the congress, it will be the turn of the compromisarios (representatives of the affiliates). After that second round, Feijóo will be enthroned.