Esperanza Aguirre criticizes Feijóo's campaign against Vox and suggests that the future of the PP goes through Díaz Ayuso

The former president of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre believes that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has made a mistake in the campaign for the general elections “saying that he preferred the PSOE” over Vox and suggests that the future of his party lies through the current Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

In a colloquium organized by The Objective together with the lawyer Guadalupe Sánchez, collected by Europa Press, Aguirre points out two “book errors” in the campaign for 23J, one of the PP in its strategy towards Vox and the second of those of Santiago Abascal, which “have not been good” in the campaign.

The former Madrid president criticizes that Feijóo said during the final stretch of the campaign “that he preferred the PSOE to Vox”. “I think that it is very difficult to sell to the PP electorate, which is largely the same as Vox,” says Aguirre, who believes that it is “an inconsistency” to say that “sanchismo” is going to be “repealed” while asking “the sanchistas” to vote.

In his opinion, the PP has to defend that Vox is a “perfectly constitutional” party, which has different opinions from those of the 'popular' but with which the pact “is much better for Spain” than that of the PSOE with Bildu. “Well, we have said the opposite, that we like Page (the president of Castilla-La Mancha) more than Abascal,” he laments.

Aguirre stresses that Vox voters were mostly PP voters and the strategy he believes should have been to wage “the cultural battle”, as he assures that Ayuso did and “has been ruled out” in this campaign for the general elections.

In this context, he maintains that the PP must follow the strategy of its former president José María Aznar of representing all the electorate that is to the right of the PSOE and suggests that its future should be in the hands of Díaz Ayuso. “I will not be the one to contradict you,” he points out when the lawyer Guadalupe Sánchez is the one who claims that the 'popular' cannot do this with Feijóo at the helm and it has to be the Madrid president who assumes responsibility.

In addition, Aguirre bets on a reissue of the Pedro Sánchez government as much as possible, although he maintains that the King must first call Núñez Feijóo as the most voted candidate and does not rule out the option of obtaining the support of the PNV.

Aguirre believes that the support of the Basque nationalists is “difficult but not impossible” because they can share many economic measures with the PP, despite the fact that the PNV has already advanced that it rules out this option.

In any case, the former Madrid leader warns that the result of the PP may “even not improve” in the event of an electoral repetition. “We have to change the strategy, the good strategy was Aznar's,” he insisted, stressing that all sectors to the right of the PSOE should be “comfortable” in the PP, “liberals, Christian Democrats, and even Social Democrats.”

Even without questioning Feijóo's leadership, several barons and leaders of the PP have lamented in statements to EL MUNDO that the campaign has activated, in their opinion, a “fear or outrage of Vox”. These voices ask the management for a change in the relationship with Santiago Abascal.