Feijóo has to wait but this Saturday he has already advanced one of the novelties that he will establish in the leadership of the PP. At the closing of the Congress of La Rioja, where Cuca Gamarra is from, the popular president has confirmed his number two as general secretary, a position he held since Feijóo became president of the PP, although he will no longer be spokesperson, as until now .
This was the safest change of those that the popular leader is expected to announce next week, since until now Cuca Gamarra held the two positions because the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did not have a seat in Congress, and He intended that whoever debated with the President of the Government would have high representation in the Lower House. Once that situation was overcome, since since the elections the president of the PP has been a deputy, it was the clearest change, and one that Feijóo himself confirmed today.
During the closing of the La Rioja congress, Feijóo justified the decision in her management experience as mayor, “her ability as a parliamentarian in moments of special difficulty for the institutional life of our country” and her knowledge of the organic life of the party, after more than a year and a half in office.
According to the popular leader, in his career he has obtained “remarkable results in all the political challenges he has had to face”, the last one being combining two positions of high responsibility in the party and in the group after the extraordinary congress last year, and She has been, he said, “the general secretary with whom the PP has achieved absolute majorities in Andalusia, Madrid, La Rioja and Melilla” the general secretary “with whom we won the regional and municipal elections in May, and with whom we raised to 14 our presence in regional governments, compared to the PSOE’s 4”.
With Cuca Gamarra – Feijóo stressed – “we have recovered the FEMP and won the general elections in July, growing by more than three million votes and 48 seats, reaching the status of first force in the Congress and the Senate, also achieving the absolute majority in the Upper House”. Now, she will be “in charge of directing the organic life of the PP with the most territorial power in history against the weakest government in democracy.”
Feijóo’s move was expected not only because from her position in the party and in Congress she has become an essential collaborator of Feijóo, but also because, according to the party’s statutes, the general secretary must be among the elected members of the executive committee. in Congress, thirty-five in total, among whom are none of the heavyweights of the popular leadership.
Precisely so that the executive committee was broader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo made sure that the hard core of his leadership, that is, the steering committee, was not on that list of elected executive committee members, the others are natural, and only Cuca Gamarra was among them, precisely to be general secretary. Neither Elías Bendodo, nor Miguel Tellado, nor Esteban González Pons, nor Borja Sémper, nor Carmen Fúnez, nor Carmen Navarro, who occupy the main deputy secretaries, appear on that list from which the general secretary must leave.
Therefore, the main unknown now will be who occupies the position of spokesperson in Congress, especially after Pedro Sánchez has created a government with a marked political profile, as he himself said, which suggests a hot legislature in Congress. . Judging by this circumstance, Alberto Núñez Feijóo could opt for a tough profile, who faces the intense legislature that is expected, hence the names of Elías Bendodo, who by dedicating himself exclusively to the party, loses part of its powers, sounds insistently, as does the name of the current deputy secretary of organization of the PP, Miguel Tellado, a person of Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s complete confidence.
It also remains to be known who will be the spokesperson in the Senate, since Javier Maroto, who was in the previous legislature, became vice president of the Upper House Board, and in his place, provisionally, is acting as spokesperson Javier Arenas. Feijóo, according to his closest friends, would be looking for another woman for that position.
