The PP roadmap Alberto Núñez Feijóo is clear: first recover the vote that went to the center for Ciudadanos, then take over those who left on the right Vox. They achieved the first part, but it was insufficient to access the La Moncloa palace. Embarking on the second phase, the ultra party stirs and He wants to take a bite out of the popular people in their leader’s fiefdom.
According to the newspaper El País, the party of Santiago Abascal is considering presenting to the Galician elections from 2024 to Manuel Fraga Pedroche, grandson of Manuel Fraga Iribarne, founder of Alianza Popular after being Franco’s minister, former regional president and totem for the Spanish right and, even more so, for that of Galicia. Vox would seek with this family name to alleviate the problems of establishing himself in the community, where he only has a councilor like any institutional representation.
The far-right party is the only one that has not yet named a candidate for the February 18 meeting. Manuel Fraga Pedroche is an advisor to European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR, acronym in English), the European Parliament group in which Vox belongs along with other parties in its political family such as Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli D’Italia or the Poles of Law and Justice.
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Fraga Pedroche assumed that position in 2019, but since 2012 and until then He also worked in Brussels for the People’s Party European, after finishing his law studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. Another relative of the patriarch with a political career is his nephew. Pedro Puy Fraga, who served as spokesperson for the PPdeG in the Galician Parliament until Feijóo took him to Madrid. In Congress, for the moment, he remains in the background.
Shortly before saying goodbye to 2023, on December 29, Santiago Abascal published a harsh message against “Feijóo-Rueda”whom he accused of continuing “in a campaign against Vox while they agree with the PSOE [en alusión a la reforma constitucional para eliminar el término disminuidos] and they humiliate Spain by legitimizing Sánchez before Brussels.”
Feijóo did the 23-J campaign against Vox. A very serious error that all Spaniards pay for today.
And now, when Sánchez perpetrates a coup against the rule of law, Feijóo-Rueda continues to campaign against VOX, while they make an agreement with the PSOE and humiliate Spain by legitimizing… https://t.co/0rACvzKROn
— Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 (@Santi_ABASCAL) December 29, 2023
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The PPdeG, now with Alfonso Rueda at the head, maintains the strategy of ignoring the far-right, which lack a consolidated structure in the Galician territory. In the previous regional elections, in 2020, they obtained a meager 2.05 and less than 27,000 votes. His best result in Galicia was in the 2019 general elections, when he obtained 7.91% and 116,000 votes, which also did not help him obtain representation. In the last appointment with the polls, in the July general elections, They obtained 4.79% and just over 77,000 votes.
Those of Abascal, who are not known about their proposals for Galicia outside of eliminate “harmonious bilingualism”They try to overcome these difficulties harshly attacking the PP, with which he co-governs between several autonomies: “We already know that the PP will do everything possible so that Vox does not get representation, it prefers to lose the that She is tired of not distinguishing the PP from the BNG and the PSOE. “Pride is not good.”