Alejandro Fernández’s candidacy is gaining ground in the last few hours in the debate held by the national leadership of the PP regarding the strategy to follow in the next Catalan elections. After the support received by the president of the popular Catalans from constitutionalist entities, and in a line of reflection in which many factors are weighed, the commitment to Fernández is consolidating, in the absence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo closing the decision.
Sources from the PP of Catalonia point out that there have already been contacts with the president of the party to address this issue. Therefore, the silence that has been maintained from the Genoa headquarters towards Alejandro Fernández since President Pere Aragonès announced the electoral call on March 13 is broken. A call that caught the party on the wrong foot, without having held the congress in Catalonia and with the pending definition of the strategy to follow.
Since then, several possible names have been considered, especially that of Dolors Montserrat, in a debate that has more to do with internal loyalties than with the candidate’s profile. The elections to the Parliament will not only define politics in Catalonia, but their result and the subsequent balances will influence Spanish politics, and hence the debate on the candidacy and the preparation of the list. Fernández has maintained public disagreements with Feijóo.
The ability of Alejandro Fernández has never been in doubt, the doubts are placed in the subsequent movements on the political scene and the need to coordinate a common strategy between Madrid and Barcelona, ??where many factors must be taken into account, including the relations with Junts. In a longer view, the PP wants to define a movement towards the Catalan center, and the advanced call has tense the debate around the candidacy of Alejandro Fernández.
Although in the PP of Catalonia there are some sectors aligned with the president of the party, and others who would opt for Dolors Montserrat, diverse voices have emerged reminding the national leadership that this is not the time to address changes with elections in the making, with good growth expectations according to surveys, and with a “solid candidate.”
