Although Alejandro Fernández was left off the podium, the PP’s fourth place in Catalonia shows off the laurels of glory. At least this is what it looks like from the party’s headquarters in Madrid, where they have celebrated as a triumph the great leap forward that their candidate has made, which has gone from three to fifteen seats and has quintupled the result obtained in 2021.
After last night, which began with contention due to doubts about the fight with Vox and ended with the euphoria of having achieved the overrule of the extreme right despite the fact that Santiago Abascal’s party has maintained its positions in Catalonia, the steering committee Today, Monday, he has more calmly analyzed the data that the polls have produced, which allows the PP to show its satisfaction after having achieved all of its objectives “with ease”: increasing in votes, seats and percentage after twelve years.
The spokesperson for Genoa, Borja Sémper, has been in charge of analyzing the “magnificent” result of the PP of Catalonia, which he has presented as a “giant step” on the path that will lead to the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to Moncloa. “Political change is at the door,” said Sémper, who has praised the victories of the popular leader in the two years he has led the party and has attributed the growth in Catalonia to the center vote that he has taken from the PSC.
In this sense, the PP leadership considers that the Catalan socialists have been “associated” with the independence movement, thanks to which Pedro Sánchez was able to revalidate the presidency of the Government, and that the electorate has seen Alejandro Fernández as the “sensible, reasonable” alternative. and moderate” before Salvador Illa, whom, according to Sémper, the leader of the PSOE could “sacrifice” to continue in the Moncloa: “We don’t trust one bit, we don’t rule out any option,” he pointed out given the possibility that the votes of the PSC serve to invest Carles Puigdemont.
But while waiting for the “definitive change” that must come when new general elections are called, the PP sets the next European elections on June 9 as the first opportunity in which Spaniards will be able to speak out as a whole after the investiture of Sánchez and He foresees that the situation of the President of the Government, who “today depends more than yesterday on the independentists” and suffers the “wear and tear” of the alleged cases of corruption in his party and his environment, will take its toll on him.
The PP can grow in the center, Sémper has analyzed, because the PSOE is “expelling the moderate vote”, and what explains why the PSC also rises at the same time is that it “phagocites” the space it has on its left and the independence vote. . But this equation cannot occur outside of Catalonia, where, in addition, the extreme right of Vox has resisted, so in the face of the European elections this “change of course” will be consolidated.
“Sánchez has the same problems as yesterday,” the popular spokesperson argued to downplay the PSC victory in Catalonia, which will not improve the “uncertain stability” of a “polarized” country “without budgets.” And given this perspective, the PP will do exactly what Alejandro Fernández said it would do during the campaign: it will not give support to the socialists to govern in Catalonia unless they break all their pacts with the independentists.
Thus, if the Catalan elections yesterday, Sunday, served to lay the “first stone” in the construction of the PP’s objective of becoming an alternative government in Spain, the European elections in three weeks will allow the Spaniards to “challenge the cycle of instability and unacceptable misgovernment” that was launched after the elections of July last year, when Sánchez “granted” Puigdemont “everything he asked for”, in reference to the Amnesty law, to be invested.
