Nacho Martín Blanco, until last week spokesman for Ciudadanos in the Parliament of Catalonia, will be number one for the PP in Barcelona, sources from the PP leadership confirmed to La Vanguardia.
In the rest of the Catalan provinces the leaders of the list will be: Concepció Veray, for Girona, Dante Pérez, for Lleida and Pere Lluis Huget Tous, for Tarragona, in lists in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo has surrounded himself with his main collaborators in the Congress of Deputies, to which it puts at the head of the list of its provinces of origin.
Thus, while Cuca Gamarra will head the list for La Rioja, Elías Bendodo will do so for Málaga, Esteban González Pons for Valencia, Miguel Tellado for A Coruña, Carmen Fúnez for Ciudad Real, and Juan Bravo for Seville.
The incorporation of Martín Blanco responds to an express wish of Alberto Núñez Feijóo who sees in the Catalan politician the figure that best represents the role that the popular leader wants the PP to play in Catalonia.
Last Thursday, the still spokesman for Cs in Parliament announced the resignation of his organic and institutional positions, and his abandonment of Cs, about whose future viability he was very pessimistic, although he already announced then that he did not intend to leave "public life" .
This statement was then already interpreted as a possible addition to the PP lists, given that Ciudadanos decided not to run in the general elections after the crash that took place in the municipal and regional elections, but from Génova street they have remained silent until today .
The popular leadership sources consulted last week praised the figure of Martín Blanco, as an example of the defense of constitutionalism that Feijóo's PP wants to print in its ranks in Barcelona. Precisely, the PP has pending a renewal in Catalonia that allows it to expand its electoral base and occupy the political space of constitutionalism with more force.
For the national leadership of the PP, Martín Blanco represents the values embodied by the late Josep Piqué, with whom Alberto Núñez Feijóo worked until his death two months ago. On that occasion, the Ciudadanos spokesman stressed that Pique was "probably the politician I have admired the most", in addition to considering him "a brilliant, thoughtful and elegant speaker".
