The PP delegates have chosen Alberto Nunez Feijoo as the new president of the party, to whom they have been entrusted to recover morale and stitch up wounds. The conservative leader (Ourense, 60 years old), the only candidate in the 20th popular congress, has received the support of 98.35% of the delegates who voted this Saturday in Seville in the last procedure that closes a transition that has lasted a month and a half: since it became known, through the press, that Isabel Diaz Ayuso accused Pablo Casado of spying on her to try to end her political career. That complaint, whose origin was the contracts signed by the president’s brother with the Madrid government in the midst of a pandemic, gave rise to a war that has ended with a solution agreed upon by all the barons and former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy called Alberto Nunez Feijoo. A man who has known how to wait for his moment.
At 12:36 this Saturday, the president of the congress, Teófila Martinez, announced the result before a plenary session that erupted in a standing ovation for the Galician leader. The desire to turn the page on these last six weeks and the assumption that Casado was clearly wrong in managing the crisis with Ayuso have caused the closing of ranks around Feijóo.
Of the 3,111 delegates called to vote, 2,670 have done so and, of them, 2,619 have given their support to the still president of the Xunta. There have been 44 blank ballots and 7 invalid.
Feijóo has taken the stage to the rhythm of ‘People have the power’, (‘people have power’), by Patti Smith, to deliver his first speech as president of the PP. The public, out loud, has responded to the musical choice of the production with a ‘Non te vaias, rianxeira’.
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As soon as he got on the stand, the Galician leader greeted Rajoy, sitting in the front row, and Aznar, at home for being positive for covid: “I want it to be clear that they are my role models and they are essential for me”.
The leader of the popular has described the great uncertainty with which the Spanish live, due to the pandemic and for the “unjust and cruel war” in Ukraine, and he has wondered if the “best possible government” is in Moncloa. “I think not. I think most Spaniards think that it is not the best government for this moment,” she continued. “There is a hunger for change. I ask that when you return to your homes you tell your neighbors that the change has already started, has claimed his party mates. “We want to win”, he has spurred them on. And they will do it, he has pointed out, with “responsibility, calm and enthusiasm”.