Governing without Vox. It is the goal and the obsession of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. There may be parliamentary agreements, but he does not want Vox in a Government that he presides over. When it's been a year since he became president of the PP, then no one thought this was possible. Today, the popular leader believes it is feasible. To do this, he needs to continue attracting socialist ex-voters, who would renounce the PP if there is a pact with Vox. And the polls encourage him.
In his speech before the executive committee, Feijóo emphasized that "in the face of a PSOE that counts votes to try to add up with a constellation of radical minorities, we are willing to unite to build sufficient solid majorities." Nothing new, except for the postulate: "And it must be recognized that every day it is more possible".
With this approach, the president of the PP faces the motion of censure of Vox, to which the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, has set a date, Tuesday and next Wednesday, as a procedure that should be done as soon as possible. He will not intervene; he is not a deputy The general secretary and spokesperson of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, will do it, but yesterday the popular leader rehearsed the party's speech more harshly against the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez: "He has lost his dignity" not ceasing the ministers who told him "traitor to feminism", "fascist" and "coward". However, he did not side with Vox.
In this situation, Feijóo denies Abascal his motion. Without citing either of the two things, the popular leader emphasized that the Government "will use everything it can to cover its dirty clothes, and it will have those who will help it", with reference to Vox. "Well, to help Sánchez no one counts on the PP. We will not give Sánchez a chance to show off and talk about what he wants, instead of talking about the scandals and the problems of the Spanish people. We will not give him a joy when even his partners give him trouble, and we will not offer him a parliamentary victory. We work 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 people want to get out of this siege: 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 of Minister Pilar Alegría highlighting the "approach" of Feijóo to the extreme right of Vox and ensuring that the PP is very clear with whom it wants and with whom it can join to govern, show that the PSOE is nervous and does not know how to slow down the PP.
Feijóo is convinced that Vox regrets its motion of censure, and even more so for appointing candidate Ramón Tamames. When Vox voters see Tamames and hear his speech, they won't like it, they predict. Abascal's party does not say this.
Just yesterday, its spokesman, Jorge Buxadé, emphasized that Vox was not looking for a partisan candidate "similar to our ideas", but an "independent candidate who could represent a social majority that we believe exists". "A social majority", he stressed, "which has one point in common, and that is to get rid of Sánchez, get rid of the autocrat".
Overcoming the motion and continuing with his work plan is the desire of Feijóo, who will not deviate even one iota from his road map: to continue talking to the different social sectors - today he will do it with the self-employed - and draw up his proposal, which will contrast with Sánchez's "misgovernance". 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 anything is clear it is that, contrary to what Sánchez is doing, he will make "the changes that the nation needs, whatever it costs us , when we are in the Government".
For this reason, Feijóo strengthens his team with Borja Sémper in a new deputy secretary of culture and open society; Cármen Fúnez to the vice secretary of social policies and democratic challenge; Carmen Navarro as deputy secretary of studies, and David Parry as secretary of electoral action. Added to this are the signings for the Concòrdia i Llibertat foundation, which will be chaired by Pablo Vazquez and which will include Toni Nadal, Rafa Nadal's uncle and former coach, and the journalist Pilar García de la Granja.
