Feijóo trusts the Andalusia effect to be able to govern alone

As the campaign passes, Alberto Núñez Feijóo is clear: he wants to govern alone and he believes he can achieve it.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
15 July 2023 Saturday 04:29
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Feijóo trusts the Andalusia effect to be able to govern alone

As the campaign passes, Alberto Núñez Feijóo is clear: he wants to govern alone and he believes he can achieve it. He trusts in what he calls the Andalusia effect, that is, that PSOE voters vote for him so that they do not have to govern with Vox, and that voters of Santiago Abascal's party do the same to guarantee change. In an informal conversation with the president of the PP, on his transfer from Logroño to Pamplona, ​​Feijóo recalls that in the first week of the campaign in Andalusia no poll gave an absolute majority to Juanma Moreno, and only in the second did it begin to be intuited.

It is not that the popular leader considers that he can obtain an absolute majority, but a sufficient number of seats, which, together with those of some parties such as the PNV and other smaller ones, can make him reach 168. It is not an absolute majority, but He believes that Vox would have a very difficult time explaining not to abstain and prevent change, and neither would those parties that he would like to add to the PP.

To achieve this Andalusia effect, Feijóo speaks of the absolute majority, without citing it. First in Vitoria, then in Logroño and later in Pamplona, ​​the president of the PP spoke of a majority "that allows me to govern alone." He does not speak of absolute but he gives as an example the cases of the Government of La Rioja and the City Council of Logroño, which the PP won by an absolute majority. He is aware, however, that "it is difficult, very difficult, extremely difficult, but not impossible ”, and calls to vote not only for socialist voters who, as Cuca Gamarra said, “do not understand sanchismo”, but also for abstentionists. "Abstention is a vote for Sánchez to stay" and each vote that is issued for the PP, on the contrary, "is a vote for change."

The president of the PP refuses to pool the votes he can get, although he does give a clue: more than 150 for sure. The popular ones consider that the PSOE is holding up well, because it is feeding on the possible electorate of Sumar, although it is true that they see the socialists less mobilized than in the Andalusian ones.

Feijóo is not concerned about Abascal's statements that say that the PP is making the wrong enemy and he does not understand that they say that he wants them to give him the votes, when what the PP asks is that they not vote with sanchismo.

So if the forecasts come true and he obtains a solid majority, even if it is not absolute, he is willing to go to an inauguration to govern alone. He will do it as long as he gets more votes than the left combined. that is to say, that an alternative government is not possible, and then he hopes that everyone takes a picture. The PP leader is willing to talk to everyone, starting with the PSOE. He does not want to believe that it is impossible to talk to the socialists about it. He also believes that if the PSOE lost the elections, as has happened in other cases, Sánchez would leave the leadership of the party.