Alberto Núñez Feijóo does not give up trying to form a government even if they say no. The rejection of the PNV is kept for the moment and appeals to the PSOE, arguing that “the State parties have won votes and seats”, while the independence movement has lost support. He wants to negotiate “to give the Spanish what they have voted for at the polls.” Feijóo spent yesterday in Santiago on the occasion of the Galician national holiday, while in Madrid voices began to appear in the PP questioning his leadership, such as Esperanza Aguirre, while José María Aznar came out in his defense.
The president of the PP, who is now forgetting that during the campaign he denied Sánchez’s PSOE the category of state party, now calls on him to negotiate. “Spain deserves stability”, moreover holding the presidency of the EU and having to negotiate the spending rule, which means that “times are coming that demand stability, centrality”, and Europeanist parties. “The fourth economy in Europe – he said – cannot be subjected to politicians, some fugitives, and to parties that are not interested in Spain”
For this reason, he assures, he will comply with the mandate that the polls have given him to form “a stable majority.” His hope is to speak with the PSOE next week, since in the messages that Sánchez and Feijóo exchanged on election night, the president referred him to after the vote of the absent residents is known.
While Feijóo is focused on this endeavor, in the PP, some voices are raised against him and others defend him. In the first group is the former Madrid president Esperanza Aguirre, who in an act organized by The Objective, pointed out “two errors in the book in the campaign.” The first of the PP in its strategy towards Vox and the second of those of Santiago Abascal, who “have not been well” in the campaign. For the former president, it is difficult to sell to the PP electorate that sanchismo must be repealed, and at the same time ask “the sanchistas” to vote.
In his opinion, the speech should have been that Vox is a “perfectly constitutional” party and that agreeing with it is better for Spain than a PSOE pact with Bildu. But the speech, he stressed, was that “we like Page more than Abascal.” In addition, Aguirre does not hide his preference for Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “I will not be the one to contradict you,” he responded to the lawyer Guadalupe Sánchez when she said that this speech about Vox cannot be made by the PP with Feijóo at the helm and it has to be the Madrid president who assumes responsibility.
Quite the opposite of what José María Aznar thinks, through the editorial of his Foundation, Faes, where he assures that “none of the errors or insufficiencies that want to be noticed in the PP campaign can equal in their effects the role played by Vox” and remember that the PP must not forget that Abascal’s party emerged with the aim of replacing the PP”.
La Faes praises Feijóo’s reaction and his intention to form a government, and faced with a possible electoral repetition, contrary to the opinion of Aguirre, who believes that the PP could be even worse, Aznar considers that the PP “has reasons for disappointment , but it does not stop the discouragement” and that the PP “has a leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is in a position to continue adding and who will be the reasonable voice in the midst of the cacophony of a left-wing bloc that naturally assumes entrusting itself to the decision of a fugitive, responsible for the greatest attack against the Constitution”.