The strategy to bite the neck of the coalition government has opened the first divisions within the PP. The two souls, the toughest and the most moderate, make themselves felt again in the thread of the debate about what are the most correct steps to get the most out of the “Ábalos case” and the investigation into Begoña Gómez. With the added gift that has now fallen to them with Íñigo Errejón and the accusations of sexual harassment, which represent a bomb for the left.
Today the Executive Committee of the PP meets to continue advancing in the definition of the strategy and there is also an appointment with the steering committee of the PP of Madrid, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The president of the Community of Madrid is leading the way on some relevant issues, at the cost of criticism from other representatives of the PP Steering Committee and some regional presidents. But Ayuso is not alone, and some of the latest decisions she has made, such as promoting the appearance of Begoña Gómez and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the investigation commission of the Madrid Assembly, have her support among other colleagues. of the party’s Executive Committee and also in other regional headquarters.
They are not organized, and yet they form a current that looks towards Genoa with certain doubts regarding how this political moment is being managed by the leadership.
«They are fighting with Sánchez with their hands tied. Sánchez opens a battle in codes that they do not understand, or do not want to understand, and they confront each other in another code and thus it is impossible to deliver the final blow,” they argue. There are barons, mayors, provincial leaders, deputies and senators who share the analysis that Sánchez has shown “weakness, nervousness and desperation” with the issue of his wife, and see it as “incomprehensible” from a political point of view that “he is not giving more cane there. “The country is not there to talk about free education from zero to three years.” Since September, the popular leader has chosen to complement his speech criticizing the Government with the presentation of proposals of a more social nature on issues such as conciliation or housing.
The voices that ask for more forcefulness against Pedro Sánchez for corruption also demand that opportunities not be wasted with shots in the air, “He shoots you with an assault rifle and you respond with a slingshot and asking for forgiveness. But what is this?
With this argument they link the criticism of those leaders, close to the party leadership, who have been activated in recent days “to join the left-wing campaign” against the message of other officials such as Miguel Tellado, spokesperson in the Congress of the Deputies, who question his manner and the tone of some of his statements.
«Has Sánchez left Puente or López stranded with the savage things they have said? And we, however, at the first opportunity we are no longer doing great with Tellado,” they say within the Executive Committee of the popular ones.
For this sector of the party, the problem is that in the leadership “there are people who want to inherit, not conquer. In the same way that they inherited the PP, now they want to inherit the Government, and that may not turn out well. “We have to go out and conquer La Moncloa.”
In the Executive they are concerned about the new chapters of the “Ábalos case”, about the investigation that Judge Peinado is keeping open against Begoña Gómez or about the political blockade. But there are also nerves and concern in the PP due to the fear of failing and not being able to take advantage of this context to put an end to Sánchez’s stage.
And, in parallel, the Popular Party lives with a certain anxiety the confusion that Madrid sometimes brings to them and that the PSOE continues to endure with relatively firm ground all the storms it is getting into.
Time is becoming long, and if Sánchez managed to push through the Budgets, there would be a part of the party that would go into depression for not seeing expectations met in the face of a President of the Government who, in theory, requires an objective analysis of his situation. , to finish it.
In Genoa, the most official sector calls for calm, and appeals to the storms that are about to come to Sánchez. But the decisions of the leadership are subject to the magnifying glass of the territorial leaders, who are the ones who have the political wealth and power of the governments they occupy and the votes they got at the polls.
This morning, before his Executive, Feijóo will contrast the PP alternative against a Government “surrounded by corruption and scandals.” The popular leader has already turned the demand for the resignation of the President of the Government into a mantra.