Feijóo will keep the PP on the street in the face of rising polls and an "outraged" Spain
“You will have several cups of democratic broth”. With these words, Alberto Núñez Feijóo announced that the PP will continue on the streets against the amnesty and “concessions” to Carles Puigdemont. There were doubts in the popular leadership about the capacity to mobilize for this third meeting in Madrid. The surprise was for the better and the “full crowd” of the Felipe II and Puerta del Sol calls was repeated, but the public was different, as recognized in the ranks of the formation.. “There are more and more PP militants and fewer people on the street,” say some of those who have attended the three calls.. Those who are already seasoned in the opposition warn that “not even 15-M could last mobilized” and consider that the leader must fold his sails to avoid a “puncture”.
Genoa is much more optimistic, because the data it works with validates its strategy of continuing with the mobilizations against the Government. Internal polls reflect the discontent of Spaniards with Pedro Sánchez's pacts. The first polls were carried out at the beginning of November and have been updated. In an electoral key, today they would manage to join with Vox and remove the PSOE from the Moncloa. They would score 156 seats. The conviction that Feijóo can become the reference for the new indignados is supported by the demoscopy: 46.8% of those surveyed are “very concerned” about the amnesty. Asked about the level of concern from zero to 10 (not at all worried or very worried), the average is 6.7. That is, almost seven out of every 10 Spaniards show reluctance towards the measure of grace for the independence leaders.
More than half of those surveyed, according to data provided to El Confidencial, define the pact with the sovereigntists as “blackmail”, “illegality” or as a factor of “inequality among Spaniards”. Barely 10% share the Moncloa slogan about the “reunion in Catalonia”. “The flame does not go out, because the Government adds gasoline,” they defend from the national leadership, where they prepare to supervise every movement. The first meeting in Geneva between the PSOE and Junts and the identity of the verifier is fuel for the PP. Even in the socialist ranks all the alarms have gone off. The wear and tear is increasing, as they recognize in the territories, where they demand “greater clarity” from the president. “I demand on behalf of this country that this nonsense stops,” said Feijóo, while delving into the controversy that the mediator is a Salvadoran diplomat who is an expert in guerrillas..
The popular ones will adjust their actions and their speech to the steps that Sánchez takes within the agenda that Puigdemont will set for him.. It is not expected that a new meeting with the fugitive will be held before the end of the year.. The PP has not set the calendar for mobilizations either, because it now assumes that Christmas will cause a political stoppage. After the amnesty, the verifier and the lawfare, the next focus will be on the inequalities among Spaniards that generate perks to the sovereignists in exchange for the investiture. This is also why the PP strategy team has asked. The results are devastating: 77.8% of those surveyed are against forgiving Catalonia 15,000 million of debt.
The Executive has announced that it will negotiate with the rest of the communities to reach similar agreements. In fact, he has tried to divide the presidents of the PP, leaking that some have already been interested in debt forgiveness. Here, the barons, as they already did in the Senate, will denounce the grievance for their citizens against the Catalans. They know that “Catalonia steals from us” is a mobilizing element. 62.1% of those surveyed are categorical in stating that the president's pacts with ERC and Junts harm their community.
The debate will soon be in the headlines, given that the Socialists now have to comply with those of Oriol Junqueras and hold a first meeting as they have already done with Junts. Here, in addition to the conditions for a referendum, they will have to put economic concessions in black and white. The majority of those surveyed do not even bless the transfer to the Generalitat of the management of the Cercanías trains. Almost seven out of 10 interviewed are against giving more powers to ERC. With public opinion dissatisfied, the president will try to counterprogram with social measures, such as increasing unemployment benefits. Street vs. BOE.