“In these complex times, working with unity and responsibility for the common good of citizens must be a priority for all“. This is how the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wished to congratulate Alberto Núñez Feijóo after this Saturday he has become the new leader of the oppositionafter having been elected with 98.35% of the votes in the XX Congress of the PP in Seville.
The leader of the Executive has taken very little time to publish his message on social networks in which he congratulates him.
Congratulations to @FeijooGalicia for his election as president of the Popular Party.
In these complex times, working with unity and responsibility for the common good of citizens must be a priority for everyone.
– Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) April 2, 2022
For her part, the Second Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labour, Yolanda Díazhas wished “all the luck” the Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
“Today more than ever our country needs a loyal and constructive opposition, away from those who want to take us back decades,” the second vice president wrote in a message posted on her profile on the social network Twitter.
The minister of the United We Can bloc, also Galician, has winked at Feijóo with a few words in the language they share: “All thanks to Alberto Feijóo in this new stage”.
Today more than ever our country needs a loyal and constructive opposition, away from those who want us to go back decades.
All to sort out @FeijooGalicia in this new stage.
– Yolanda Diaz (@Yolanda_Diaz_) April 2, 2022
The president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, and He wished him “luck and success at such a difficult time for Spain”.
On her Twitter account, the leader of Cs has claimed that Spanish democracy “needs strong constitutionalist parties to defend it.”
Congratulations, @FeijooGalicia, for your election as president of the PP. Good luck and success in this stage that opens for your training at such a difficult time for Spain. Our democracy needs strong constitutional parties to defend it.
– Inés Arrimadas (@InesArrimadas) April 2, 2022
The Galician baron has achieved overwhelming support in this conclave, the second to be held by primaries after the one on July 20 and 21, 2022 that raised Casado to the Presidency of the PP after beating Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. Then, Casado won over Sáenz de Santamaría by obtaining 1,701 votes (57.2%), 451 more than the former Vice President of the Government.
The president of the XX Congress, Teófila Martínez, reported the result of the vote, specifying that the census of delegates with the right to vote amounted to 3,111. 2,670 votes have been cast and a total of 2,663 are valid (after seven invalid and 44 blank). For this reason, she has concluded that Feijóo’s candidacy has received 2,619 votes, 98.35% of the votes.