Although Galicia has until now been a bastion of the PP practically impregnable for the left, after the surprise of the general elections, when the polls failed miserably and left Alberto Núñez Feijóo without the majority necessary to reach the Moncloa, all caution is insufficient, Alfonso Rueda must have thought, who aspires to be endorsed as president of the Xunta at the polls.
The new leader of the Galician PP has a revalidation on February 18 in which his predecessor in office and now national president of the party is also playing, so the popular ones will go all out to ensure an absolute majority that they still continue to hold today. predicting the polls, which give a comfortable advantage to Rueda, installed with an average of around 45% of the votes, over the rest of the candidates.
Hence, the president of the Xunta has surrounded himself this Sunday in A Coruña with all the regional barons of his party, in a sign of the importance that the PP gives to the Galician elections next month. Thus, the Andalusian Juan Manuel Moreno, sitting to the left of Rueda, and the Madrid-born Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to his right, participated in the event “Building Spain from the autonomous communities”, which served to kick off the the electoral race.
Along with them, the presidents of all the communities in which the PP governs, Fernando López Miras (Murcia), Carlos Mazón (Valencia), Jorge Azcón (Aragón), María Guardiola (Extremadura), Marga Prohens (Balearic Islands), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (Castilla y León), and some of the territorial leaders of the party, such as the Basque Javier de Andrés, the Asturian Álvaro Queipo and the La Mancha Paco Núñez.
In the closing speech, after the interventions of the barons, who have praised the long career of the PP at the head of the Xunta de Galicia, where Feijóo, before making the leap to national politics, obtained four consecutive absolute majorities , Rueda thanked them for their support: “We are going to build Spain from Galicia with all of you,” he exclaimed.
“Galicia is a land of open doors, with a lot of identity. We are proud of being who we are: our model is to be Galician and feel deeply Spanish, and this is also going to be talked about on February 18. Indeed, we are going to talk about that also,” said the Galician leader, who has thus predicted that the regional campaign will have a state dimension in the face of the “nationalist blackmail” to which he sees the Government of Pedro Sánchez subjected.
“We are going to continue building bridges where some want to establish artificial borders. We are going to continue shaking hands with the rest of Spain, that is why it is important that you are here,” he said, addressing the barons present. “The Socialist Party in Galicia only wants what Sánchez wants, which only wants itself,” said Rueda, for whom the differences between the different territories should not undermine the equality of all Spanish citizens.
In this sense, the president of the of pellets on the Galician coasts: “I want to ask for a round of applause for the bravery of the seafarers. Galicia tastes like the sea. Long live the seafarers and long live our people,” proclaimed Rueda, who contrasted the “sentidiño” with cheers. Galician who defends the PP against the “sullen” nationalism of the BNG, the second force, ahead of the socialists, in the Parliament of Galicia, which he has accused of following EH Bildu.
“We are going to destroy you,” Ayuso had said before, challenging the PSOE and its “Yolandist” allies, which is how he has defined the Sumar space, led by Vice President Yolanda Díaz. The woman from Madrid gave a very belligerent speech and asked that the vote be concentrated in Galicia around the PP and not be dispersed, alluding to the extreme right, as happened in the general elections. “This is especially about Spain, we need you and from the capital region we are going to accompany you,” he concluded.
For his part, the Andalusian Moreno, the last to speak before Rueda, has exhibited some of the milestones whose achievement he attributes to the management of the Board since it is in the hands of the PP and has put Galicia as the example in which has inspired: “We copy everything good that the
