Feijóo will make "adjustments" in Génova and the parliamentary groups in order to lead the opposition to Sánchez

“Get used to Galician sarcasm”. The phrase is by Alberto Núñez Feijóo; the context, one of his responses to the groups during the failed investiture session that he faced this week in Congress. The message, addressed to locals and strangers, left no doubt: he has come to Madrid to be president of the Government “sooner rather than later”, as the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, ventured.. Another Galician. The PP now begins a new stage after a “difficult” month, they recognize in the party, in which it has been difficult to digest that the most likely horizon, unless Pedro Sánchez fails in his investiture attempt with the Catalan independentists, is the opposition.

There is satisfaction with the result of the leader's debut in the lower house. From the popular leadership they highlight that “many citizens have discovered Feijóo” and that one of the “errors” to which the baronies blame the insufficient result of 23-J is that there was “excessive repeal of sanchismo” and “absence of country project”. The Galician combined both aspects well in his speech to request support from Congress. There was a motion of censure against Sánchez, but he also presented his economic proposals. The popular ones saw it reflected, according to their own considerations, that “we have a solid alternative to Sánchez”.

The closing of ranks, which was visualized with the barons supporting Feijóo from the guest gallery, does not prevent the demands for “important changes” in the structure of Genoa from having subsided.. For senior party officials, the negotiation of the pacts with Vox and how the general election campaign was planned showed that the party leadership “is not well oiled”. There is no criticism of the figure of the leader who, they insist, “has more than demonstrated his political worth”, but there is criticism of the “lumps” in the strategy and the “confusion” in the organic functioning.

The focus is on the “tricephaly” that represents the coexistence between the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, the general coordinator, Elías Bendodo, and the deputy secretary of Organization, Miguel Tellado. There are complaints from the barons about the “lack of operation”. The one who came out “most burned” was Tellado. He is from the president's most trusted team, with whom he has been working in Galicia for years, but “Madrid has weighed on him,” say popular sources who suggest that he could consider making the leap to Brussels taking advantage of the fact that there are elections to the European Parliament next year.. Bendodo was one of the few who dared to suggest to Feijóo that the surveys that gave them above 150 could fail and it was necessary to lower expectations. The man who was Juanma Moreno's plumber has found the place, although he has not always been comfortable with the distribution of powers.

Showing off his Galicianism, Feijóo listens, but those who work closely with him emphasize that he is “methodical” and has his “own times.”. Having overcome the debate of his failed investiture, he is now focused on dismantling Sánchez's story and on what, this time, will be face to face in Congress with the acting president, unless the negotiations with Carles Puigdemont ultimately fail. hour. The popular leader is more inclined to make “adjustments”, according to management sources, than to an internal “revolution”. The analysis is that the elections have been won and if big changes are made it is as much as assuming a failure that the PSOE hails as a political weapon..

The Galician does not like leaks very much, that is why only he, and “two or three people” will know before they are announced the true significance of some changes that will be forced in the case of the party leadership after the appointment of the vice-secretary of Coordination autonomous and local, Pedro Rollán, as president of the Senate. The change of Javier Maroto from the spokesperson of the Senate to the Board of the Upper House will mean a double change both in the direction and in the election of the future spokesperson. Until now, the position is held on an interim basis by the veteran, Javier Arenas, but he himself has told his colleagues on the bench that it is most likely that he will not continue in this position.. Feijóo wants it to be a woman and the former Environment Minister of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Paloma Martín, has entered the pools with great force, who “the boss really likes”.

In the case of the Congressional spokesperson there is a quorum in which Cuca Gamarra has defended the position “with gallons” despite the fact that he inherited the stage of Pablo Casado. He has earned the trust of Feijóo, who, when he was confident of being the next president of the Executive, nominated Gamarra as the future political vice president.. Proposing her to preside over the Congress Board when everything indicated that it would fall into the hands of the socialist Francina Armengol caused the party to interpret that the plan was to replace her as the voice of the popular people, but the leader of the PP officially left the position vacant..

If Feijóo keeps her as spokesperson in the party, they suggest that what is foreseeable is that she will end up ceasing to be general secretary.. In one scenario or another there are two names that are in all the groups: Borja Sémper and Carmen Fúnez. The first acts as spokesperson for the party and some place him as the “chosen one” to face the Government in the control sessions.. The internal noise generated by his intervention in Basque on the day in which the PP was protesting the approval of the use of co-official languages in Congress, showed that he does not have the sympathies of everyone.. “Sémper would be a good spokesperson for the government, not for the opposition,” reflects a member of Mariano Rajoy's team, who anticipates that the legislature is going to “be very tough” and advises that Feijóo “rearm” himself with “very political” profiles..

“Feijóo has to have someone who will bite for him,” insists the aforementioned source, who lived with Rajoy a journey similar to the one that awaits the current leader and from his experience considers it a priority for the Galician to maintain his profile as a “statesman.” and takes refuge behind a praetorian guard that “shakes Sánchez”. “Some change has to be made,” they repeat in the party where the vice-secretary of Social Policies and Demographic Challenge is vying for promotion.. Fúnez, “sorayista”, represents what the PP leadership wants to convey after the detailed study of the results of the parliamentarians leaves three elements to improve: we must regain the trust of women after having lost more than a million of these voters for alliances with Vox; We must broaden the party in the center and recover the transfer of voters from the moderate PSOE, which was much smaller than expected; and we must bite Vox from the Government alternative. If these circumstances do not occur, management sources warn, “we will not return to Moncloa”.