Alberto Núñez Feijóo is getting deeply involved in the Catalan pre-campaign, he will continue to do so in these three weeks before 12-M with a strategy that appeals to “political centrism” in Catalonia. It is in this context that the popular ones are currently betting on avoiding a large landing of barons – regional presidents –, especially those who govern with pacts with Vox.
The participation of the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, are thus planned, both with a good entry, according to the PP, among the Catalan electorate close to the popular ones. This has been proven in the different visits they have made to Catalonia in recent years. The participation of the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who governs with Vox, is being considered, but in a sectoral event dedicated to education. Castilla y León has been the community with the best results in the 2022 Pisa report, where Catalonia obtained poor results. This is one of the messages of the popular campaigners, who link “the educational deterioration with the process.”
The agenda continues to fit together but what is becoming clear is that Feijóo draws the campaign in a Catalan key, also thinking about the repercussion of the results on the Spanish political map. And, in the end, on the horizon of general elections. The recovery of the political space of centrism and the construction of a project of “open ideologies that allows us to turn the page on the process” is the generic axis in which the PP is moving, therefore far from Vox.
In these last two days, the popular Catalans have addressed the debate on security in their campaign agenda, but at the same time they have taken to the streets in search of mobilizing the vote of their electorate, after the intense period with the elections in May and the advance of the general elections in July that can cause fatigue. If on Thursday Alejandro Fernández was at the Sant Ildefons market in Cornellà, yesterday the campaign manager, Dolors Montserrat, and the Barcelona councilor Daniel Sirera visited the Felip II market in the Sant Andreu neighborhood. In a press appearance, Montserrat defended the reduction of taxes that they defend from the Generalitat, and made reference to the regional section of Personal Income Tax, the inheritance and donation tax. She also alluded to the need to “lower VAT on meat, fish and canned goods.”
A message that he repeated during his visit to the Barcelona market, reminding the public who sold and bought, those who accepted the propaganda and those who did not, that "with the PP taxes will be lowered and neighborhoods will be safer."
