Govern without Vox. It is the objective and obsession of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. There may be parliamentary agreements, but he does not want Vox in a government that he presides over. When he is going to celebrate one year since he became president of the PP, nobody thought that this was possible. Today, the popular leader believes that it is feasible. For this, he needs to continue attracting former socialist voters, who would renege on the PP if there is a pact with Vox. And the polls encourage him.
In his speech before the executive committee, Feijóo stressed that "in the face of a PSOE that counts votes to try to join a constellation of radical minorities, we are willing to unite to build sufficient solid majorities." Nothing new, except the note: "And we must recognize that every day is more possible."
With this approach, the president of the PP faces Vox's motion of no confidence, to which the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, has set a date, next Tuesday and Wednesday, as a procedure that better happen as soon as possible. He will not intervene, he is not a deputy. The general secretary and spokesperson for the PP, Cuca Gamarra, will do so, but yesterday the opposition leader rehearsed the most harsh popular discourse against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez: "He has lost his dignity" by not dismissing the ministers who They called him a "traitor of feminism", "fascist" and "coward", without siding with Vox.
In this situation, Feijóo reproaches Abascal for his motion. Without citing either of the two things, Feijóo stressed that the Government "will use everything it can to cover up the dirty laundry, and it will have those who help it", in reference to Vox. “Well, to help Sánchez, let no one count on the PP. We are not going to give Sánchez a chance so that he can show off and talk about what he wants, and not about the scandals and problems of the Spanish. We are not going to give him joy when even his partners give him trouble and we are not going to offer him a parliamentary victory. We are working to defeat him at the polls.”
The PP is aware that the PSOE will try to put the PP and Vox in the same bag. The popular want to get out of that fence: there is a moderate electorate that hesitates to go with the PP in case it allies with Vox, and that can recover the PSOE. For the PP, the words yesterday by Minister Pilar Alegría, highlighting Feijóo's "approach" to the extreme right of Vox, and assuring that the PP is very clear with whom it wants and with whom it can add to govern, show that PSOE is nervous and does not know how to stop the PP.
Feijóo is convinced that Vox regrets his motion of no confidence, and even more so for having appointed Ramón Tamames as a candidate. When Vox voters see Tamames and listen to his speech, they are not going to like it, they predict. Abascal's party does not say that.
Just yesterday, its spokesman, Jorge Buxadé, stressed that Vox was not looking for a partisan candidate "affiliated with our ideas", but rather an "independent candidate, who could represent a social majority, which we believe exists." "A social majority," he stressed, "that has a point in common, and that is to throw out Sánchez, throw out the autocrat."
Ignoring the motion and continuing with his work plan is the wish of Feijóo, who is not going to deviate one iota from his roadmap: continue talking with the different social sectors – today he will do so with the self-employed – and prepare his proposal, that will contrast with the "misgovernment" of Sánchez. As an example, the pension reform, which he considers "a patch that goes until 2025." He promises an "honest, deep reform, to guarantee the viability and sustainability of the system", because if he is clear about something, it is that, contrary to what Sánchez does, he will make "the changes that the nation needs, whatever it costs us." it costs, when we are in the Government”.
To do this, Feijóo reinforces his team with Borja Sémper in a new vice-secretary for Culture and Open Society; Cármen Fúnez in the Vice-secretary for Social Policies and Democratic Challenge; Carmen Navarro as Deputy Secretary for Studies and David Parry as Secretary for Electoral Action. To these are added the signings for the Fundación Concordia y Libertad, which will be chaired by Pablo Vázquez and which will be joined by Toni Nadal, uncle and former coach of Rafa Nadal, and the journalist Pilar García de la Granja.
