Revealed one of David Bisbal's machines: Carlos Alcaraz. "It is a machine that represents the machine of the Murcia region!" Alberto Nuñez Feijóo said of the tennis player to close his speech in Murcia this Saturday at noon after seeing him play the day before in Barcelona, at the Conde de Gothic. This Saturday afternoon, the leader of the PP was already back in Catalonia, where he has been pre-campaigning for three days. He had to support the leader of the party in Castelldefels, Manuel Reyes. Here, Feijóo, in an act of lesser format, has been hard on Pedro Sánchez. He has accused him of being in charge of a government "with ministers on the run" who star in "a reality show of fights, ruptures and reconciliations."
Feijóo has delved into the open wound in the Government due to the dissensions in Moncloa between the PSOE and United We Can. “Ministers cannot be arguing with each other every day; they cannot vote against each other”, has maintained the leader of the PP. De Sánchez regretted that, in his opinion, he does not decide or control the Council of Ministers: "He must govern, and to govern is to decide, and to decide is to wear yourself out so that your country does not wear out."
“The president chooses his ministers, appoints them and dismisses them; There cannot be ministers with a guaranteed position”, he added in a clear reference to the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, who promoted the law of only yes is yes, but also to Vice President Yolanda Díaz. And it is that Feijóo has stressed that there cannot be ministers "or vice presidents" in the Spanish Executive who "have created a party", Sumar, to "get votes from the President of the Government" and that they have created a "party different from the one that appointed Vice President of the Government”, in reference to Podemos.
That the PSOE and the PP go to the fight is not new. Yes, it is that both coincide in rectifying initiatives. The socialists counter-reformed the law of only yes is yes that United Podemos had promoted through Minister Irene Montero. A turn back that also seems to be taking place in the PP: the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, opened on Friday to rectify the plans for Doñana. He collided not only against the Government, but against Europe. Multiple collision.
However, Feijóo has also attacked Sánchez's announcement to finance up to 43,000 social rental homes at affordable prices. For the popular leader, “in terms of housing, Sánchez has been repromising what he promised five years ago” and has affirmed that ERC and EH Bildu dictated to the President of the Government his policies in this matter. Sánchez "is a bargain" for republicans and abertzales, he said.
Be that as it may, if Feijóo has made a stop in Castelldefels to support Reyes, it is not by chance. The popular ones have serious options to take over the mayoralty of a city of 67,000 inhabitants where they have won in the last three municipal contests. Reyes was already mayor from 2011 to 2015, but he ceased to be eight years ago thanks to left-wing alliances. "Castelldefels is a great city because (...) it has gotten used to voting well, but it is poorly governed because those who lose get together," summarized Alejandro Fernández, president of the PP in Catalonia. Today, María Asunción Miranda, of the PSC, governs.
The PP assures that by May 28 they are close to an absolute majority, which is thirteen representatives. Today the party has eight councillors. Almost ten, because the two from Ciudadanos, Guillermo Massana and María Cristina Corona, have signed for the popular so that they can make a place for themselves in the blue candidacy.
Only Badalona, with more than 217,000 inhabitants, exceeds the ambition of the popular to gain a municipal command baton in Catalonia. Xavier García Albiol -also present at the event in Castelldefels- is the most likely candidate, after being evicted by a motion of no confidence in 2021. Gimenells and Portons, the only two strongholds of the PP in Catalonia, barely exceed 1,600 citizens .
There is another no less piece of information to assess the presence of Feijóo in Castelldefels. Manuel Reyes, also the provincial president of the PP in Barcelona, sounded like a substitute for the party leader in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, present this Saturday at the event, before Pablo Casado fell.
This Sunday, Feijóo will celebrate Sant Jordi through the streets of Barcelona. Of course, he has trusted that it will be while Alcaraz wins on the track.
