Genoa prepares “discursive innovations” for the final stretch, which will be combined with criticism of Sánchez’s alliances
The PP will not continue to focus its campaign speech exclusively on the controversy of the electoral lists of EH Bildu. The first week has been filled with the inclusion of ETA members in the candidacies of the Abertzale coalition and the planned parliamentary debates, starting with the face-to-face between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez in the Senate, led the party to focus on alliances parliamentarians They won’t drop the issue entirely, but Genoa prepare different elements for the home stretch. There will also be discursive novelties.
Despite the fact that the Bildu framework “does not bother the PP& rdquor; and they consider, unlike Moncloa, that “it does have a sure wear for the PSOE & rdquor; (The actual effect at the polls remains to be seen), in the national leadership they recognize that it is not a question of continuing to stretch the controversy. There will be reproaches for the pacts, but the intention is to go further and focus part of the messages on other “positive” issues for the PP. The economy, inflation, housing and “other concerns” will also gain weight. of citizens in Feijóo’s speeches.
An important event is scheduled for next Tuesday in Madrid, which will be led by the conservative leader with the mayor and candidate for re-election, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and Tony Nadalthe uncle of the most recognized tennis player in Spain, and who recently signed for the foundation of the PP. The idea is to do “a different act & rdquor; to the rallies of each day, and the colloquium, to which the PP gives maximum relevance, will be related to education and values such as the culture of effort. A very different framework from these days so focused on Bildu.
It will not be the only one, as has been seen in the last few hours. This Friday Feijóo was in Galicia and on Saturday he visited Andalusia. Two territories in which the PP governs with an absolute majority and dominates the agenda, “far from hyperbole& rdquor;, they say in the team of the popular leader, in which national politics often lives. Despite the fact that in the interventions, Feijóo maintains key messages “from sanchismo and its partners& rdquor; (on Friday in Lugo he insisted that “we cannot resign ourselves to Bildu presenting himself normally and being whited & rdquor; and on Saturday, in Seville, sang “the lies” de Sánchez) also delved into matters of fiscal policy and public services.
This Sunday the PP will hold the most massive act of its campaign and of the rest of the parties in Valencia. His claim is to fill the bullring (between 10,000 and 11,000 people, mostly, they say, from the Valencian PP). Yesterday Sánchez also held the central act of his party in the same city and the two parties got involved in a war of figures for the number of attendees.
The PP gives maximum importance to the display of muscle (buses from other communities will not arrive as normally happens, because the campaign continues in the rest of the territories) in a square whose outcome may be decisive to see if there is a change of cycle or not in favor of conservatives. The PP has it in its box of “government more than likely & rdquor; and affirms that if the PSOE loses it “it will be left out of the game”.
Discursive novelties and announcements
The idea in these next few days, they explain in Genoa, is to introduce other issues, not necessarily related to management. The PP regrets not having the BOE to make announcements that at this moment they cannot comply, while Sánchez is reproached by his own in terms of housing or culture, such as the cinema for two euros for people over 65 years of age, which has not yet been completed. .
But what they recognize is that the final days of a campaign have to call “emotional” and convince voters with “positive” proposals. In other words: it is not enough to repeat “how badly the entire Government does it & rdquor; and his pacts with the abertzale left. The PP understands that it must combine its purely political discourse with other issues in the final push and get the attention of all your potential voters.
Different strategies within the PP
Above all, because with regard to Bildu, the PP is counting on other voices as prominent as that of Isabel Diaz AyusoThey will continue to be very present. In fact, in recent days the different strategies maintained by the national leadership and the regional president have been clearly seen. In some moments even has generated discomfort for the insistence on giving a legal battle that Genoa rules out.
Ayuso continues to think that it is necessary to explore the idea of banning Bildu through article 9.3 of the party law, while Feijóo rejects that possibility in view of the latest pronouncements of Justice. In addition, the leader of the PP does not intend to commit to something specific, taking into account that he aspires to govern in a few months. And, in any case, the vision of Genoa is the possible reform of the electoral law to add a plus of ineligibility for cases such as those convicted of terrorism by Bildu.
Some words from the Madrid woman caused discomfort among national leaders, concerned that attention would be diverted to the internal debate of the PP. In Feijóo’s environment they are not alien to this position, but they also recognize that in discount time each candidate must go for his objectives. At another time, they explain, perhaps the analysis would be different. But now, what Ayuso needs to snatch one or two deputies from Vox to gain an absolute majority in Madrid, all is permitted and forgiven.