Feijóo maintains his proposal that the most voted list govern after 28M if Sánchez promises to apply it in the general elections
The leader of the Popular Party continues to defend that the most reasonable and fair thing for any voter is that the candidate who obtains the most votes, that is, the list with the most votes at the polls, governs his municipality, community, or even the entire country.. That is to say, that it does not happen as on so many occasions when another ends up ruling thanks to post-electoral pacts.
18 days after the appointment with the polls, PP sources confirm that Alberto Núñez Feijóo will maintain the offer he made to President Pedro Sánchez last year to govern the list with the most votes, even after knowing the results of 28M. In this way, the popular would risk Pedro Sánchez accepting with the results in hand. But, according to his close entourage, the leader refuses to “prostitute an election” by giving the government to the loser even if he is from the PP.
Hence, Feijóo remains faithful to his word and reiterates to Sánchez his proposal to agree on it whenever he wants; that yes, before the generals. In this way, in Genoa they propose two ways and two conditions. For the municipal ones, the popular asks to reform the electoral law, as he already proposed months ago. And for the autonomous and general ones, Feijóo proposes an agreement signed by the PSOE and the PP, in which both commit to facilitating the government both in territories and throughout the country to whoever obtains the most votes, even if they can add up with their priority partners and despite the fact that not all barons agree with this formula.
The truth is that this proposal, which has already been rejected by Pedro Sánchez -despite the fact that he requested it in 2019-, only proves the expectations of the PP two days before the official campaign begins. The popular ones say they trust in winning socialist territories, but not having the governments insured -and even less without Vox-. As is the case of Castilla La-Mancha, the Valencian Community, Aragon and Extremadura.
Popular sources also assure that Feijóo is “happy” at the gates of the electoral campaign, since Brussels has activated the debate on embezzlement, and Sánchez has announced a housing law agreed with Bildu, which he has presented as candidates to members of the ETA terrorist band that came to assassinate in the towns where they present themselves. Of course, they do not count on receiving more votes in the Basque Country or in Navarra, but they do count on mobilizing the socialist voter who does not agree with the policies of Pedro Sánchez.
All this – they say in Genoa – paves the way for Feijóo to Moncloa, where “you can see” the opposition leader. That is why Feijóo now insists on agreeing the most voted list since, for the moment, the most optimistic polls only give him the victory in the general elections but only adding with Vox to reach the majority. And this would break with the whole argument that has defended the popular since his arrival at Genoa, claiming moderation and the widening of the political space both to the right and to the left.