The Popular Party will bring together its two former presidents, José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy, in an act this weekend in Valencia, but rules out also having Pablo Casado, who led the formation until the arrival of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The popular ones intend to vindicate the legacies of Aznar and Rajoy and mark the profile of government management and, for this reason, according to its general coordinator Elías Bendodo, Casado will not participate.
The municipalist act of Valencia will serve to prepare the electoral contests of May, some elections marked by the PP as a previous one of the general ones. In this context, then, the party seeks to highlight its management and moderation model, entrusting itself to its two references from the past to stage a continuity with the current leadership of Feijóo. And here Casado does not enter the training plans.
The PP wants "the first resounding no to Sánchez" to be given in the municipal and regional elections, as explained by Elías Bendodo in the presentation of the pre-campaign slogan ("Spain Among All"). With this slogan, the popular ones intend to underline the need to make a "collective" effort to bring about a change in Moncloa and the course of the country.The change of direction advocated by the PP seeks to end the "radicality, arrogance, division, improvisation and arrogance" of Sánchez, in the words of Bendodo. "The Spanish want to talk and say yes or no to the drift of Sánchez," he insisted.
The idea of converting the municipal ones as a prelude to the general ones will be reinforced in Valencia, where Rita Barberá's PP achieved a comfortable victory in the consistory in 1995, a year before the arrival of José Maria Aznar to the presidency of the Government and, therefore, both, of the premiere of the popular ones in the Moncloa. In the intermunicipal, the formation will honor its first mayors with a table and a video in which Luisa Fernanda Rudi and Celia Villalobos, who were in charge of the Zaragoza and Málaga city councils, and the late Rita Barberá will be the protagonists.
Before the media, Elías Bendodo has also criticized Sánchez for not having yet modified the "only yes is yes" law (he has limited it to electoral interests). Despite the reproaches, he has once again reached out to the Government to make changes imminently and thus avoid dependence on the parties that have supported him on a stable basis. At the same time, the general coordinator has demanded the resignation or dismissal of the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero.
