“You have to see it normally”a regional president with command in place agrees with LA RAZÓN. Reality is what it is. And so it will continue to be, even if you think the other way around. Andalusia has established that, with exceptions such as Galicia or the Community of Madrid, the only possible way for the Popular Party to govern is with Vox. Either from outside, as happens in the Balearic Islands, the Region of Murcia and the Valencian Community, or from within.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo He assumed the calico after Extremadura and Aragón, two electoral events that his party leaders forced at the wrong time and with the first and only intention of breaking the blockade and reducing dependence on the green party. However, both outcomes readjusted the chessboard of the new political cycle. “The discourse of fear no longer works because what is scary is that everything remains the same in Spain,” he proclaimed yesterday at the National Board of Directors of his party, which met at the headquarters in Genoa to celebrate the Andalusian result.
«Sánchez is afraid. “That’s scary,” He repeated with the idea of contrasting the alliances of his barons and Vox with the political and corruption scandals that surround the President of the Government.
At the end of February, once it was confirmed that Vox was anchored in third place with the status of key, the president of the PP took charge of the situation and decided to design a document in which he established a framework for all future agreements. Like the one who, they hope in the PP, will sign Juanma Moreno after entering the club of those who depend on the thumb of Santiago Abascal to be able to govern. Despite a victory as incontestable as it was incomplete. The two seats that were missing to be crowned with another absolute majority are held by the green party. And if the Andalusian president wants to safeguard the coveted stability in his land, he will have no choice but to jump through hoops.
According to popular leaders, the Andalusian president has some advantages: there are two precedents of agreement, and a third on the way, which will make things easier for him. And, with such a distribution of seats, Vox will not be able to demand iniquitous conditions either. Although that will not be the priority of the national leadership of their formation, where they assure that they are immersed in another major undertaking: consummating the change that was frustrated in the last general elections.
After the Andalusians, Núñez Feijóo activates the “Moncloa way”. Nothing else. And nothing less. «Our campaign starts», summary on your computer. This Monday, in his statement before the popular cadres, the national president repeated the word “change” up to thirty-three times. Thus he pressed the start button of the race of his life. The last bullet. It’s now or never. Continue or goodbye. And since yesterday all efforts have been concentrated on raising a project that manages to dazzle a sufficient majority of voters to oust, this time, Pedro Sanchez.
The dilemma with Vox in Andalusia
“We are not going to focus on others”they add to their team. It is the most conclusive answer they offer to the question of what they plan to do with the Andalusian negotiation. They assure that the scenario is different. Because, a priori, it does not seem that there will be a coalition. Something that, on the other hand, is not entirely clear either.
That Juanma Moreno wants to repeat alone was confirmed by himself throughout the campaign and he repeated it hours after finishing the scrutiny. «I think the result is strong enough. What is reasonable and sensible is rto state what the majority of Andalusians have decided at the polls: that the PP govern alone. I say this for a reason, the PP has obtained 150,000 more votes, almost 20 points more than the PSOE and almost 30 more than Vox.
However, he admitted that «parliamentary dynamics» It forces “agreements” and, by pure logic, the only possible path is Vox. Neither the PSOE nor the left have shown signs of wanting to abstain. Which, on the other hand, does not seem to be the PP’s preferred option either.
It will not be this week when the future in Andalusia becomes clear. Moreno’s intention is to give himself a few days of margin before moving any chips. “Right now we are in the hangover, there is no type of contact,” he clarified. Regarding his predisposition to assume certain postulates of Vox, he also did not want to be conclusive. To the aforementioned “national priority” that those from Abascal will demand, he replied: “We have a priority: Andalusia. That’s what we’re going to respect.what we are going to do and what we have done so far.
The national priority
Neither yes, nor no. In the PP they resist making speculations and are not willing to take anything for granted. Although in the party there are those who consider that whenever Maria Guardiola and Jorge Azcon have agreed with the syntagm, there is no reason for Alfonso Fernández Mañueco or Moreno to now bet on standing up to it. In the end, they remember that this is a literary concession that has no greater implication than reinforcing a root that already exists as a requirement for the granting of some social aid.
From the ranks of Vox they do not even entertain the hypothesis that Moreno will completely accept the concept as his own. «He will do the same as his colleagues have done. We see no reason for a regional leader of the PP not to want to assume what two other leaders of the PP have assumed,” they predict in Bambú, the party’s headquarters.
In the event that the Andalusian president chooses to stand up to the “national priority”, Abascal’s people warn: “We will have a problem.” The upcoming negotiation will not be easy. In the PP they know it. For everything that the figure in contention represents: a baron who has always shown his moderation and taking a path opposite to that of Vox. And because four years ago its absolute majority knocked out the green party. In Genoa they anticipate a long and complicated birth. «They are going to make you pass whores», shrugs a party leader.
The only hope that the popular people have is that Moreno will not have to lower his pants on the “moral issues”, those that most mobilize the left. Abortion, gender, equality. The pulse will be in other directions and you don’t have to be a fortune teller to predict that the Andalusian pact will focus on the countryside.
These will not be problems that Feijóo has to deal with personally. He will be waiting, but busy with his task: getting to the Moncloa. «Do not enter the mud or traps. Proposals, future. “He has marked the way for change,” summarizes a person on his team about what has already started. «We have a project for Spain. We are going to go out into the streets with it, we are going to listen to people, we are going to enrich it. And, I add, we are going to fulfill it,” the popular president promised.