The absent protagonist of the censure motion, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, aspires to be the beneficiary of a situation that a priori looked bad for him. The PP considers Santiago Abascal's initiative a "resounding failure" and believes that Vox voters have not understood the movement of their party and, even less so, the candidacy of Ramón Tamames. That's why Feijóo now has a goal, "seek the votes of Vox", say popular sources.
The PP had considered Vox's pool of votes exhausted, and since then it set out to find a million votes from the PSOE. It already has more than 700,000, they assure the PP, but now it's about scratching voters from both sides, right and left.
The general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, assured that his party "neither breaks up with anyone nor marries anyone", after Isabel Díaz Ayuso called off her relations with Vox on Thursday, a break that the president of the Community assured that it has nothing to do with decisions made in the direction of the party.
Bendodo stressed that the PP continues to "work to build an alternative to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, a serious State government".
A week from now it will be one year that Feijóo is at the head of the PP, but the popular leader will not entertain himself in celebrations, "there is no time for that", say the consulted sources. There is a lot of work and that's why the popular leader just wants to turn the page on the parenthesis that the debate has meant and recover "the cruising speed of his project".
The president of the PP intensifies his activity, today with a rally in Madrid aimed at Latin American immigrants who will be able to vote on the 28th. The next day, Sunday, he will present the framework program.
The failed censure motion will not make Feijóo budge from the script designed a year ago to reach Moncloa. Focus on citizens' problems.
The conclusion that Feijóo draws from the motion is very different from that conveyed by Sánchez. According to the president of the PP, the Government is not strengthened. After all, he considers that the motion has given him a balloon of oxygen that had an effect during the 48 hours that the debate lasted, but of that "there is nothing left".
The popular people recognize that the president managed not to talk about Tito Berni or the law of only yes is yes, but nothing more. After the motion, the resignation of the director of the Civil Guard due to an alleged case of corruption in which her husband has been charged has erased, in the opinion of the PP, any advantage of the PSOE.
The analysis of the leadership of the PP is that the motion was lost by "Vox and Podem" and won by Yolanda Díaz and themselves because they have shown that they are, they say, "the pragmatic and useful right to change the Government" , as opposed to Abascal. And Díaz because he has presented his program and his platform, which means "the appropriation of Podemos".
With this conclusion, Feijóo is convinced that his abstention in the motion was appropriate. If he had voted with Vox now he could not present himself as the refuge for that vote that has not understood Abascal or the candidacy of Tamames.
However, he will not give up on continuing to capture votes from the PSOE. The leadership of the PP also sees Sánchez's attempt to "associate" Feijóo with Vox as a failure and, for this reason, does not give up on capturing the transfer of votes from the PSOE.
However, the PP has another goal, "to continue to demonstrate that the Government is in decay", without Sánchez being able to fire Irene Montero. That is why he will take advantage of the changes foreseen in the Government with the departure of Reyes Maroto and Carolina Darias to demand "a wider remodelling", which includes Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Irene Montero.
