These days many analyzes are published that try to explain what happened on 23-J. It is true that the vast majority of opinion-makers, including myself, were convinced that the PP would clearly win the elections. The only question was whether he would have a majority with Vox to form a government or Spain would enter a situation of blockade. What everyone ruled out was that the PSOE could add up with all its partners to reissue an investiture agreement.
The shock of these results in the sectors closest to the PP is generating all kinds of interpretations, and most of them revolve around the relationship with Vox. Some believe that the popular ones should have marked more distances with the far right and others think that the opposite is true. But there is one piece of information that should make the PP leadership and everyone around it reflect: of the 66 seats in Congress that were at stake in Catalonia and the Basque Country, only 10 have gone to the PP and Vox bloc, and all the rest has gone to the common bag of the left or nationalist formations. A difference of 46 seats nothing more and nothing less in favor of the Sánchez front. The conclusion is perfectly clear: if the PP fails to find an attractive speech for the moderate sectors in these two communities, it is difficult for them to come up with the numbers to have a majority.
It is clear that the criminalization of the independence movement carried out by the PP, both in Catalonia and in the Basque Country, can give it votes in the rest of Spain, but, on the other hand, leaves it as a marginal force in both communities. The PP needs to find a discourse that is not seen as offensive and that serves to improve concord and never foster further division. Even the PNV, which has reason to be suspicious of the PSOE because of its rapprochement with Bildu, has already distanced itself from the PP. Nobody wants him as a dance partner.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, due to his origin, is in a better position than other PP leaders to try it, but it is not enough just to express good intentions from time to time. Otherwise, the PSOE can perpetuate itself in power even if it is the second force in the elections.
