“Mazón, what about your pact?”. The question is from Alberto Núñez Feijóo; the addressee, the future president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, who became the protagonist of the act in which the PP leader exhibited territorial power in Madrid by gathering his barons. The Galician staged an atmosphere of “cordiality” with Mazón after a week of tension after sealing the agreement with Vox. “He has been affectionate”, comments one of the attendees, who confirms that Feijóo is willing to “put order” in future agreements with those of Santiago Abascal. The wear and tear in political terms of the first coalition after 28-M has been a wake-up call for Genoa.
Feijóo will monitor the negotiations. You cannot repeat “mistakes” such as the denial of sexist violence in the document signed in the Valencian Community. The plan is to return to the original strategy. The barons of the PP will go alone to their investitures and that it is the far-right formation that is portrayed. “Endure the pressure” is the slogan that he transmitted yesterday to the regional leaders who are in talks with those of Abascal. After the act there was, according to popular sources, a meeting to “coordinate the agreements” to share future actions.
The result that the polls produced in each territory will mark the scenarios, but at this moment in both Extremadura and Murcia there is a willingness not to give in to the pulse of Vox. Both María Guardiola and Fernando López Miras are willing to assume the cost of an electoral repetition before sharing government with the extreme right. In the case of Guardiola, the maneuver is risky, since the elections were won by the socialist Guillermo Fernández Vara. PP and PSOE tied at 28 seats and Vox achieved five compared to four for Podemos.
The absolute majority is in the 33 deputies. In the match, they consider that the option to govern can be lost if they go back to the polls, but in Guardiola's team there is no doubt that Extremadura will penalize Vox. “María is not going to break her commitment to govern alone. It will not deceive its voters,” they insist. In Murcia, López Miras has the trump card that the PP adds more than the left together. The 21 seats of the popular in the Assembly make it easier for it to become strong. It was already seen in the constitution of the Table, where Vox has been left out. If the elections were to be held again, the forecast within the PP is that they would obtain an absolute majority, by mobilizing the useful vote, as happened in Andalusia,
On another board is the game of Aragon. Jorge Azcón continues in the line of slowing down. Go slowly so as not to give headlines that blow up Feijóo's electoral campaign. There is no problem regarding the constitution of the Assembly, since Vox will have a representative. You have been offered a secretariat, but at the moment it seems “insufficient”. It will be the first procedure, but, except for surprise, the negotiations will not be linked to a hypothetical coalition government, as happened in the Valencian Community.
“No more Vox”, summed up yesterday a member of the popular leadership. The management of the agreements is causing a real headache for the popular leadership. Paraphrasing Mariano Rajoy, internally the global situation of alliances is described as a “mess”. Isabel Díaz Ayuso boasted in the Retiro park before her colleagues of her absolute majority. “I am the baroness”, he even said, according to one of the attendees, who qualified that the “favorite” is the Andalusian, Juanma Moreno, who yesterday came with the greatest territorial power of the PP in Andalusia under his arm. “Feijóo has a personal harmony with him,” recalled one of the barons. The proof is that they ate together with their families at the restaurant De María Félix Boix.
The main issue is not the fear that their voters will penalize them in the general elections, but that the left manages to mobilize their electorate by agitating the speech that Abascal will be Feijóo's vice president. In recent days, both Pedro Sánchez and his ministers have focused the message on the setback of rights and freedoms that a PP-Vox coalition would mean in Moncloa.
To counteract from Genoa, work will be done to spread the message that the PP is a transversal party. It will be valued how they have been able to support the socialists in city councils such as Barcelona or Vitoria to prevent the mayoralties from falling to Bildu or the party of Carles Puigdemont. If a few weeks ago it had been contemplated that the popular councilors would vote for themselves and leave the baton of command to Xavier Trías, after the alliance in Valencia it was “unassumable” to give more artillery to the rivals favoring the sovereignist. From here, the PSOE will be required “responsibility” to avoid depending on the extremes.
The “the trenches are over” that Feijóo promulgated yesterday is a declaration of intent. The leader of the PP will insist in this campaign that the list with the most votes be allowed to govern. The polls continue to show that the only possible partner is Vox, which is why the Galician will question the PSOE so that, when the time comes, it abstains from its investiture. Sánchez does not contemplate it. Post-Sanchism is unknown.