Very few people knew where Os Peares was, a Galician village in the province of Ourense, until Núñez Feijóo, who was born there, put it on the map. And the president of the PP returned to deep Galicia this Thursday, before moving to Barcelona and Castelldefels where he will put up posters, to start his "march to La Moncloa", anticipating the start of the campaign in a few hours.
There he committed himself to rural and emptied Spain, with its needs and problems, and he committed himself to all of Spain. There, in his town, before his neighbors, he underlined his commitment: "I have come to pledge my word" that "I am not going to deceive anyone", just as he cannot deceive them, that "you know everything I have done" and promised that wherever he is, "I will be with my feet on the ground" and he will enforce the principles that he has always exercised, he said, and that are typical of his land and the rural world: effort, humility, modesty, " that will be my beacons of political action" with a single objective "to improve my country.
Os Peares, a village of just one hundred inhabitants brought together many of its neighbors to support the most important of them. Feijóo opened the campaign, although it is not official until 12 at night, in front of the house where he was born, his grandmother's store, and in the presence of his mother and his sister Micaela. Eva Cárdenas, his partner, was also in the audience, but out of the spotlight.
Hanging from the façade of the house, a banner: "Os Peares proud of you, always", and another smaller one: "Two Peares to Moncloa". He addressed his neighbors in Galician, but soon switched to Spanish because the recipients of his words were not, in reality, his neighbors, but all Spaniards, and there, "where it all began," he said, he spoke of work, effort , of humility. And there he found similes to explain what he wants to do in Spain. Os Peares is surrounded by bridges because it is a village on the Ribera Sacra surrounded by rivers, and that is what he wants to do in Spain, "to unite what separates us", with "different accents, with their own languages in some territories, but speaking a common language".
He as an example that if the Spaniards want him "a small town boy can become president" and that it is good for him to get to know rural Spain, not by going to the countryside on weekends, but by having been raised and lived in it. For knowing the problem of lack of population, demographic dispersion, aging. All of them elements, he said, that will weigh when making decisions as president, always with the tagline of whether he wins the elections and becomes one.
In front of his neighbors, he once again "pawned my word that I am not going to disappoint them" and that improving services, some of which do not have them, will be his priority, because he is going to focus "on important issues, not here frivolities are discussed"- He will talk about the water supply, sanitation, having a doctor nearby, that the children can go to the University "no matter what challenge they have", that they can live in their town, even if they work in another place, because there are infrastructures, because he is going to dedicate himself, he stressed, "to solving problems" because his commitment is "that we politicians be useful".
It also promises, for all Spaniards, "a sustainable pension system, quality healthcare, infrastructure" and "to build bridges again between all the peoples of Spain." With these premises, he proclaimed that "it is time for change, it is my moment", and he did so in his most moderate tone, forgetting about Pedro Sánchez, looking towards July 23 and beyond.
Because it is a message that tries to reach the entire population of rural Spain or emptied Spain. There is a lot at stake, they are provinces in which there are more than 18 seats at stake, which may be vital so that the deputies he obtains will allow him, if he wins the elections, to tell Vox that he is willing to reach programmatic agreements, but not to include leaders of the Abascal formation in their governments. These are the provinces where four deputies are elected, such as Ourense, where Feijóo, Álava, Albacete, Burgos, Cáceres, León, Lleida, Lugo, are from.
