Feijóo's nod to Guitarte to avoid Vox in Aragon: "I want to preside over rural Spain"

A municipality of Teruel with just over 300 inhabitants. It is the destination that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has chosen on a key date: this Saturday the town halls of all Spain are constituted, and the popular leader has chosen to visit Celadas, a small town in Teruel with which to wink at Empty Spain and its main representative in Aragon: Tomás Guitarte, head of Teruel Exists. The decision is not accidental. This Friday, the candidate for the presidency of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, held a meeting with Guitarte to bring positions closer to a possible investiture of the popular leader. The regionalist leader is not closed to an abstention, which would make it easier for the PP to minimize the influence of Vox and not replicate the example of the Valencian Community in more territories.

“I want to be president of rural Spain,” Feijóo claimed this Saturday, after attending the inauguration of the popular Raquel Clemente at the Celadas City Hall. The popular leader insisted that the Empty Spain agenda will be a priority in his Government program, and has promised a series of tax incentives and policies aimed at solving the problem of abandonment of the rural world. The popular leader has defended the “importance” of “proximity” politics, a maneuver with which Feijóo also intends to attract votes to the PP from a political current that does not have a defined ideology.

In Aragon, the PP won the elections in Aragon with 28 seats, six away from the absolute majority. Vox got seven, so the sum would be obvious if there were no other forces on the board.. Teruel Existe has three, insufficient to invest Azcón, but they could serve to prevent those from Abascal from entering the executive. The popular candidate can force an unsuccessful first investiture vote —where he needs an absolute majority— and try it in the second round with a simple majority. The 28 'yes' of the PP tie with the 28 'no' of the left (PSOE, CHA, UP, IU). If Teruel Existe goes to abstention, the PP would only need an affirmative vote to break the tie and govern.

Feijóo has defined his visit to the small municipality of Teruel as the beginning of a national agenda focused on the field of Empty Spain, which he promises not to leave aside if he manages to reach Moncloa. The popular leader needs to start tying support for a possible investiture in the Congress of Deputies. Despite the precedent of the Valencian Community, and despite the fact that the closest approach to Vox del PP has taken place under the presidency of Alberto Núñez Feijóo —those of Abascal will access the government of some 140 municipalities this Saturday, including large provinces—, the leader popular promises to govern alone.

The intention of the popular leader implies beginning to build bridges with the rest of the forces of the parliamentary arch to tie up a sufficient majority to stop the entry of the ultra-right in a hypothetical Executive of the PP. Every vote counts, and those of Empty Spain could be important in Congress after 23-J. Feijóo has also maintained timid contacts with the PNV, PRC or UPN, a force that will guarantee the investiture of the popular leader despite the break between the two forces in Navarra.