The vocation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo is to try to form a Government no matter how many doors are closed to him. If the King proposes him as a candidate, he will not decline the appointment as Mariano Rajoy did in January 2016 when he refused, considering that he did not have sufficient support. Feijóo will not resign.
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, asked at a press conference in Congress, after the meeting of the Permanent Deputation, about whether Feijóo would be willing to go to an investiture even if it is unsuccessful, stressed that Felipe VI is responsible for appointing to the candidate, and the “vocation” of Núñez Feijóio is “to go to the investiture, because any other option is “insane”.
For the PP, the dilemma is "either the institutional blockade or a coalition between more than twenty parties, which are calling for independence, self-determination referendums and hidden pacts." Moreover, according to number two of the PP, for Sánchez's option to succeed, the capital of Spain "would have to go from Madrid to Waterloo."
While the PP insists that Feijóo deserves the task of forming a government, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, was convinced that there will be a government of "Pedro Sánchez, because he has everything agreed", and that he will take advantage of the vacations to “through the back door, ensure their permanence”, closing the pacts “with the enemies of Spain”.
However, the Madrid president pointed out that Feijóo is "in his legitimate right, having won the elections, to try to form a government", and "nothing prevents him from seeking alternatives to Pedro Sánchez's project to destroy Spain." Ayuso sees it well that his leader "fights him".
The Madrid leader of the PP wanted to settle the speculation about Feijóo's leadership, fueled on election night when supporters chanted her name outside the Genoa headquarters, while Feijóo spoke from the balcony. The Madrid president's own response would later be added to this scene when she was asked if the leadership of the former Galician president was at stake: "I think not," she replied. And a day later it was Esperanza Aguirre who pointed to Ayuso as the leader who should take the party to another stage.
"This does not work like that," Ayuso replied and expressed his support for Feijóo's leadership so that he is the candidate if there is an electoral repetition. “It cannot be that on Thursday we were at a rally with the president, applauding him, giving him our support, and on Tuesday throwing him off a bridge. We are not podemitas”.
The truth is that, as has happened with other Madrid presidents such as Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, or Esperanza Aguirre, Ayuso "is a loose verse", with his own opinion that often differs from that of the party. And if Feijóo said on Tuesday that the PSOE is a State party, the Madrid president considers that "not everyone within the PSOE is a State party", since "many of them have not lived up to it" and added that they have not It seems wrong to him that the PP tries to obtain the support of some PSOE deputies as Vox proposed.
But the national leadership of the PP rules out this possibility. He wants to talk to the PSOE, and that is why Gamarra calls on the socialists and Pedro Sánchez "not to hinder" the PP from giving Spain "a government" with serenity and moderation, which returns Spanish politics to "seriousness, maturity and responsibility” to “not break a series of unwritten rules” that, according to Gamarra, establish that “whoever wins rules; that it is not agreed with whoever wants the rupture of Spain; that an amnesty is impossible and that you cannot negotiate with a fugitive from justice”.
