The until now number three of the PP, Elías Bendodo, will cease to be general coordinator of the party, to occupy the position of deputy secretary of regional and municipal policy, which until now was held by the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán. A change that means that the president of the PP removes a position that has had great relevance during his first stage at the head of the party.
However, according to sources from the national leadership of the PP, Bendodo’s deputy secretary will assume several of the powers that he had been developing now as general coordinator, including electoral analysis.
That is, Elías Bendodo will maintain many of the areas he held, as well as those of electoral evolution and trends, in addition to those of analysis and strategic planning that depended directly on him.
It is therefore, according to PP sources, of grouping the secretariats of the area that he previously held and those of Bendodo’s vice-secretariat, but without the tasks of general coordinator, with the argument, according to these sources, that now, with Cuca Gamarra full-time general secretary, it makes no sense to keep the coordination tasks in other hands.
His position “will have fundamental importance in the party’s organizational chart, since it will coordinate the policy developed from the national headquarters with which the different autonomous communities exercise it at the time of greatest institutional presence of the party.” In fact, the PP presides over 11 autonomous communities, the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, exercises the vice presidency of the Canary Islands (all of them represent 70% of the population), directs the FEMP and governs in 40% of the town councils throughout Spain. .
An explanation that tries to respond to a supposed discomfort of the general coordinator, who could not find his place as coordinator since Gamarra was dedicating herself to her role as general secretary, which gives powers to Bendodo, but takes away from being number three of the game.
The position of general coordinator is eliminated in accordance with the needs of an opposition party, according to the PP, since the president of the PP will exercise his function in this legislature from the Congress of Deputies, since he was not a deputy in the previous one. , and now that the general secretary, who combined her position with that of spokesperson in the Lower House, will exclusively deal with her organic duties as number two of the party.
In addition, Feijóo will propose Alicia García as spokesperson in the Senate to the PP executive committee on Thursday. García has been a councilor in Ávila, a councilor in Castilla y León, a deputy in Congress and, since the last elections, a senator. According to the PP, he knows, therefore, local, regional and national politics, which gives him ample parliamentary experience to lead the Popular Group in an Upper House, in which the PP has an absolute majority and also has the best profile to stop some of Pedro Sánchez’s legislative excesses.