Feijóo appoints Bendodo deputy secretary of Autonomous and Municipal Policy and Alicia García, spokesperson in the Senate
Alberto Núñez Feijóo will propose to the National Executive Committee the appointment of Elías Bendodo as the new vice-secretary of Regional and Municipal Policy and Electoral Analysis. Bendodo will thus assume the functions of the vice-secretary that until now was directed by Pedro Rollán and will maintain the areas of Electoral Evolution and Trends, in addition to those of Analysis and Strategic Planning that depended directly on him..
Feijóo thus groups the area secretariats of two departments around Bendodo. The Andalusian leader is no longer the general coordinator of the party and drops two hierarchical steps, but rises one in terms of competences,
In addition, Feijóo will propose Alicia García as spokesperson in the Senate. García has been a councilor in Ávila, a councilor in Castilla y León, a deputy in Congress and, since the last elections, a senator.
García is close to Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who was the one who named her candidate in the Avila elections. “The weight of Castilla y León is noticeable” in the leadership of the PP, sources from the Board emphasize.
Not in vain, that of Castilla y León is the largest subgroup of the Senate. From his position as spokesperson in the Upper House, where the PP has an absolute majority, García will pilot the offensive against the Government. In addition, he joins Feijóo's Management Committee with stripes.
Tellado and Fúnez
This Monday Feijóo completed his first and most important change in the leadership of the Popular Party: he elected Miguel Tellado as spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress, replacing Cuca Gamarra. It thus becomes the cornerstone of the new opposition work that the PP wants to do: tougher, but with a willingness to negotiate, to try to divide the parliamentary majority that Pedro Sánchez saved for his inauguration.
Tellado's appointment precipitated another: Carmen Fúnez will become deputy secretary of Organization, a position previously held by Tellado.. In addition, she will be number three in the party's organic hierarchy, only below Feijóo and Gamarra themselves, who has been ratified as general secretary, but “full time.”
These two appointments, which will be confirmed in the PP Executive Committee on Thursday, have also meant that Bendodo will be relegated, but “with expanded functions” and “with reinforced powers.”
In this way, the tricephaly of power that Gamarra, Tellado and Bendodo were the protagonists of until now is broken.. The lieutenant of the Andalusian president, Juanma Moreno, will undoubtedly lose hierarchical stripes in the ranks. But not so much prominence, they have an impact once again in Genoa, since Feijóo does not want to demote anyone from the team with which the PP won the Andalusian, municipal, regional and general elections.
Until now, Tellado had been serving as Deputy Secretary General of Organization and Fúnez has served as Deputy Secretary of Social Policy and Demographic Challenge.. The first is Feijóo's trusted man, his operational right-hand man, with bomb-proof loyalty – forged in the PP of Galicia – and with such closeness and harmony with the president of the party that they confer on him by themselves. a huge power. Above all, in the face of the territorial leaders, who see in him an extension of the president of the party himself.. Also to the deputies.
Tellado was general secretary of the Popular Party of Galicia between 2016 and 2022, and director of the last two electoral campaigns in that community, in which Feijóo obtained absolute majorities. Tellado has also been spokesperson for the PP in Galicia, regional deputy from 2012 to 2022, and senator, in the previous legislature.. In this he is a national deputy.
“Parliamentary life will be very relevant in this legislature, the first in which the first party in Spain, the one that won the general elections on July 23, does not preside over the Government of the nation,” PP sources point out.
Carmen Fúnez, with extensive political experience in the PP, where she has held positions of responsibility and has been a parliamentarian in the Senate, will replace Tellado in the party structure, assuming the important deputy secretary of Organization.
She will be in charge, therefore, “of energizing and improving the structure of the party both in Spain and abroad,” and “of implementing the electoral strategy throughout the territory,” they add.
Castilian-La Mancha is the policy in which Feijóo symbolizes the change he wants to make. Listed as a Sorayista and former president of Nuevas Generaciones, the vice-secretary has been in the party for more than a quarter of a century, where she has held various positions in her community and in Madrid.
And there will be more changes.