Alberto Núñez Feijóo has chosen Galicia for the first massive act of the PP pre-campaign for 23-J and has opted for the same place where on March 2, 2022 he announced his leap into national politics to preside over the party, the multipurpose Fontes do Sar de Santiago de Compostela. It has not been an innocent choice, but rather that he seeks that his community serve as a shuttle to repeat in the general elections the results that the four autonomous communities that he ran for in his land gave him; victory by absolute majority.

“We are going to get what we always get here, an unappealable electoral victory at the polls in all of Spain,” he said convinced before an audience delivered. “Even if the Apostle's Bridge is ruined” -because of the date of the electoral appointment-, “it is well worth celebrating the Day of Galicia with a new Government of Spain that is better for Galicia”, he has proclaimed in reference to a July 25 two days after the elections.

“I feel that I never come to Galicia because I have never left”, said Feijóo, who has appealed to this feeling of union for his land as his political school, in which he learned “good politics”, which is that of “service public above all else” and “keeping society together without fractures”. The leader of the PP has used that example to contrast it with the divisions of the left and the independence movement.

Although he wanted to clarify that he does not like to show off because “it is the first step to losing” and that they cannot be overly trusted, he has been convinced that “things are going well” and that “Galicia will be key to that majority”. “We must go quite well”, he assured, in view of the attitude of the rest of the parties, in which he recognizes “things that happened here when there were elections and then we won”, such as the continuous insults. In recent days they have been called “soft”, “ultra”, “Nazis”, “Jews”, “undocumented” or “hooligans”.

Feijóo has also made it ugly that “the entire left is more concerned with making the lists than with their electoral program” because “they will not be able to govern” and they have not forgotten the proposal of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to make six faces face to face with him. Something that seems “a blast” to him and makes him wonder why he wants them, if to say six times that he will not reach agreements with Bildu, that he will not agree with the independence movement or that he will not be able to sleep with Podemos, alluding to the president's statements of the Government prior to the previous general elections that later failed to comply.

For Feijóo, it would be “very interesting” for all Spaniards six face to face, but if they were between Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Diaz, Irene Montero, Arnaldo Otegi, Carles Puigdemont and Feijóo. And the sixth and “the most interesting” would be “between Pedro Sánchez of 2018 and Pedro Sánchez of 2023”. That “would be insurmountable” and “we were going to see it up to us.”

Feijóo is sure that the leader of the PSOE “has accepted defeat” and “what is being seen these days is the final firecracker of 'Sanchismo'”. And, as good news, he has insisted that “there are 42 days left for all this to end” and to “turn the page on institutional deterioration, scandals, bungling and transfers to the independence movement”.

He has not forgotten the PSOE Federal Committee held this Saturday, in which there were purges on the lists, candidates who resigned en bloc and men who did not attend, and he extends his hand in the event that the PP wins and governs after 23- J: “The PSOE will have the historic opportunity to rebuild that party that existed before Sánchez”.

Moderation and management

The president of the PP of Galicia and the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, made use of Feijóo's career as president for 13 years in the community, where he won four consecutive elections with an absolute majority, and made the Sánchez government ugly, “the one that only think of himself”, that “he has been crushing Galicia for a long time” because “they believe that by punishing Galicia they punish Alberto Núñez Feijóo”.

This community, recalled Rueda, “always marked the political times, also in Spain” and wanted to convey to Feijóo that “it has Galicia to put an end to this Government”. And also his confidence that a future Executive of the PP in Spain led by him will display “moderation” as a “feeling and way of doing things” and management as a “philosophy” and “way of understanding problems and trying to finding solutions”.

The general secretary of the PP in Galicia, Paula Prado, opened the event endorsing the phrase that Feijóo himself said 15 months ago, when he announced on this same stage his leap into national politics. “Spain is waiting for you, Spain needs Alberto Núñez Feijóo to be its president,” he insisted, after recalling that the popular ones won the municipal elections, with 554,000 votes and being the force with the most votes in 191 city councils, two out of three.