Maria Lopez |
Madrid (EFE)
This is how he transferred it to his own before 28M and this is how the territorial power assumes it in the face of the general elections on July 23, where the party will unite with its leader to defeat the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
In the territories they recognize the generosity of Feijóo in the recent elections. There is satisfaction with how he has handled the campaign. They believe that he has arrived in Genoa with the lesson learned from Galicia. Now, the roles are reversed and it is territorial power, grown after 28M, that is made available to Feijóo.
Feijóo listens to everyone, takes note and then decides
It implies respecting the design of the lists. In the PP the ‘modus operandi’ of the Galician leader with the appointments is already known: he listens to everyone, takes note, and then he is the one who decides. And few know the verdict. The blue notebook in which José María Aznar jealously kept the name of his ministers falls short next to him, they joke in the game.
Thus, from the party they do not anticipate the movements of their leader. The term to present the candidacies begins on June 14 and ends on the 19th. They must step on the accelerator and PP sources indicate that they will speed up the deadlines.
Several unknowns surround the bobbin lace that the popular president must make.
What profiles will return to the PP
For example, which profiles will return to the PP. The so-called Sorayistas are expected to join, who in their day were close to Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and who in recent months have been finding a place either in the popular leadership, or in the founding of the party, Reformismo21.
Thus, the incorporation of Borja Sémper, who since January has been campaign spokesman, is taken for granted. Carmen Fúnez, vice-secretary for Social Policy, or former minister Íñigo de la Serna, who coordinated the electoral program with Fúnez, have also returned to the life of the party. The former Minister of Labor Fátima Báñez, current president of the CEOE Foundation, is in the foundation.
It also remains to be seen what role the active profiles that were close to Pablo Casado will play, such as Javier Maroto, spokesman in the Senate during the last legislature. Or what task Feijóo reserves for his number two, Cuca Gamarra, who has led the reins of the PP in the Congress of Deputies before, during and after the party crisis.
Will there be any profile of Citizens?
Another question to be resolved is whether any Citizens profile will have a place. In the PP they were only interested in those who drag the vote, but the party will not appear and one of its mainstays, Inés Arrimadas, who leaves politics, while the approach of Begoña Villacís prior to 28M was unsuccessful. At its foundation, Feijóo has signed the former economic guru of the oranges, Luis Garicano.
According to his public statements, since as soon as he has the opportunity he flags experience and three-year terms as management values, it is to be expected that he will also surround himself with professional profiles. At Reformismo21 he has a talent pool, such as tennis coach Toni Nadal.
The new legislature represents the opportunity for Feijóo to work with his own team in Congress, where until now he has operated with the group inherited from Pablo Casado, whose solvency some voices in the party question.
In the Senate, the PP leader surrounded himself with his own leadership such as Miguel Tellado or Elías Bendodo, who shared space with veteran profiles of the PP whom Casado found accommodation in the Upper House.
In his calculations, the leader of the PP must take into account the composition of a hypothetical Council of Ministers, since the popular ones are already seen in Moncloa, and with putting together a well-oiled group, key if he meets the objective of governing alone and must do it in the minority.
Whether or not it reaches the Government, the PP hopes to multiply its parliamentarians since in the legislature that is now ending it has 89 and the polls predict more than 130, although the goal of the formation is to reach 150 to reduce its dependence on Vox.