Alberto Núñez Feijóo is increasingly convinced that it is possible, that the victory of the PP in the elections, be they in May, or the general ones at the end of the year, is possible. They are told by the polls held by the popular leadership, and the atmosphere in which the PP lives, which this weekend was exacerbated by the presence of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, and convinced many that victory can take place .
Perhaps carried away by that feeling of euphoria that was experienced this weekend in Valencia, the president of the PP made a confession, an insinuation and even an announcement, that he is not like other candidates that the PP has had, who have taken three times to get to the Government, that he is playing heads or tails, that there will only be one opportunity, that of the year-end elections. He will not have a second chance to be Prime Minister.
“If I don’t get it, I don’t deserve to be party chairman, so please help me to be a party chairman for a bit.” It was the message of Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the PP candidates who are presenting themselves on May 28 in the municipal and regional elections, to which he continues to give paramount importance, because they must be the prelude to what happens next when the election is at stake. government of Spain.
Perhaps for this reason, the president of the PP asked all the candidates for those resounding majorities: “The majority that must be fought for is an absolutely indisputable majority.” He even dared to speak of absolute majorities, because he claims “the majorities of Manuel Fraga in Galicia, and those of presidents Rajoy and Aznar”, and even the absolute majorities of him also in Galicia, and in Andalusia. In fact, Feijóo acknowledged that the happiest day he has had since he became president of the PP was the night that Juanma Moreno achieved an absolute majority in Andalusia.
It is the only way, he stressed, to guarantee that the PP will be able to do in the Government what they want to do and what they will promise to the citizens that they will do in the electoral campaign. And it is that, as he explained, he does not ask for those “overwhelming” majorities for him, or for the candidates who have an appointment with the polls on May 28, although he acknowledges that “when you have an absolute majority, you never forget it.” He asks for these majorities “because they are the ones that will legitimize us to do things.”
That is the important thing, Feijóo stressed, “to have a sufficient majority to be able to govern”, because, in addition, these majorities are what allow “the people to ask their rulers for responsibilities”. It is not about governing for the sake of governing, he stressed, but to achieve “that Spain has a better government”.
Not only the polls tell you that rule that possible. Alberto Núñez Feijóo is also guided by the attitude “of my opponents on one side and the other, who are very nervous and do strange things.” He did not say anything about what Abascal does to his right, although he was surely thinking about the offer he made to Ramón Tamames to lead the motion of no confidence that he has announced against Pedro Sánchez. Feijóo focused on what Pedro Sánchez, who went to the Senate, is doing to talk about the latest economic measures, “and it seemed more like the debate on the state of Feijóo”, and that asks the president “to talk more about Spain and less from my”.
Feijóo is confident in the electoral result, and he knows why it is, a conjunction of demerit from the opponent, and success from the PP. “We lead the polls because while Sánchez and his family are increasingly distant from the people, we are closer to the people,” because, he stressed, “while Sánchez and his family have lost the pulse of society, we, and the PP, we are the closest thing to Spain”. For this reason, he encouraged PP militants and their potential voters not to be intimidated by criticism: “Not even Sánchez can frighten Spain because he is going to govern the PP.”
He explains to those voters that his project is not limited to the objective of “changing a president”, but what is more important, “making the changes that a country needs and that the citizens demand”. Changes in economic matters, but also territorial, to “prevent the advance of the independence movement” and not have the independentistas “as allies”, or return to making a foreign policy that is good for Spain “instead of letting it be humiliated”. , in reference to the summit in Morocco. A change that also supposes “defending public services, and not using them to do politics”, and a change that in economic matters “addresses the structural reforms that the country needs”.
All this was said by Feijóo in the presence, once again, of José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, who had no problem staying at the closing of the intermunicipal, today, after their speech on Saturday. They were mere spectators, but they took a mass bath in the purest style of their best times. And Feijóo stuck out his chest, due to the presence of the former presidents of the government, but also due to that of all the regional presidents, whether they govern or not, the entire national leadership of the PP and all the candidates for mayors, who Feijóo believes are called to become the demonstration of his power, on May 28, as in his day happened with Luisa Fernanda Rudí, Celia Villalobos, Soledad Becerril, Teófila Martínez, or the memory, always, of Rita Barberá, who was very present this weekend, in Valencia.