Dolors Montserrat gains weight in the PP and in Europe. The president of the Spanish conservative party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has chosen the Catalan MEP as the new vice president of the popular group in the European Parliament, a position in which she replaces Esteban González Pons, who left Brussels to head the list for Valencia in the general elections. of July.
Montserrat (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, 1973) has been an MEP since 2019 and has served as spokesperson for the Spanish delegation of the PP in Brussels. Her appointment, which will take place this afternoon at 7:00 p.m., has been proposed directly by Feijóo and has received the endorsement of all the national delegations of the European popular group, chaired by the German Manfred Weber.
Among its powers, sources from the popular party explain, will be the political program with which the popular Europeans, who make up the main group of the European Chamber, will compete in the European elections of 2024. Likewise, this promotion coincides with the renewed prominence of Carles Puigdemont in the European Parliament as a result of parliamentary arithmetic in Congress, which leaves the election of the next President of the Government in the hands of Junts.
With the appointment of Montserrat, who was Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality (2016-2018) in the government of Mariano Rajoy and spokesperson for the popular group in Congress (2018-2019) with Pablo Casado, the PP points out the main lines of his candidacy for the European Parliament, the next electoral appointment on the calendar if there is no repetition of the general elections.
In this sense, Feijóo's commitment to Montserrat in Brussels could mean that she herself heads the list (in the European elections the constituency is unique for all of Spain) in May 2024, which, in principle, would remove the hypothesis that she She is the one chosen by Genoa to lead the party in Catalonia, since the tradition is that the president of the Catalan PP is the candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat.
