PP charges request a national convention to mark the strategy with Vox and shield Feijóo

Vox's announcement that it will give its votes for an investiture without demanding to enter a hypothetical government of Alberto Núñez Feijóo sounded like pure strategy in the PP. While from Genoa the gesture was appreciated, in the party the reading is that in these moments of “little or nothing is useful”. Popular officials coincide in pointing out to this newspaper that the announcement is part of what was agreed in the meeting between Santiago Abascal and Feijóo, which the far-right formation leaked to the press. In this context they frame the agreement that was signed in Aragon, where the president, Jorge Azcón, avoided photography with his vice president.

In the PP the feeling has been established that each decision that is made arises from improvisation. It is not understood that, if the majority analysis is that the pacts with Santiago Abascal's party have taken their toll, in Aragon the same strategy is repeated giving power to the ultra-right and paying off the story with which the PSOE mobilized its electorate. In this atmosphere of bewilderment, a sector of the PP advocates that Feijóo convene a national convention after the summer.

The objective, according to popular sources, is for the party to debate what the future strategy should be with the ultra-right and to reinforce Feijóo's leadership, whether there is a repeat election or if he ends up as leader of the opposition.. Those who defend going to a convention consider that an ideological rearmament of the party is necessary. After 23-J, dissenting voices have emerged regarding how to approach the relationship with Vox. The all-powerful Andalusian baron, Juanma Moreno, has advocated confronting the ultra-right and vindicating the PP as a government party along the lines of former presidents José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy.

Juanma Moreno bets on absorbing the extreme right winning it at the polls. Your numbers support you. In the first legislature, he left them out of the Junta de Andalucía, and in the second, his absolute majority crushed them. The same roadmap was followed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the other reference to which the party looks after the parliamentary elections failed to add. Others, as expressed by Esperanza Aguirre, criticize the attack on Vox and are committed to building bridges. The debate is served, and in the party there is a coincidence that the autonomous pacts have been managed from Genoa “very badly”.

The bicephaly that has existed between the deputy secretary, Elías Bendodo, and the secretary of Organization, Miguel Tellado, at the time of controlling the territories. Popular officials insist that Feijóo should have given a guideline at the national level on how to deal with alliances after 28-M. “You cannot demonize Vox and at the same time be giving it power in the autonomies,” laments a strong man from Rajoy who warned that the PP was risking a sufficient majority by embracing those of Abascal.

The national convention would serve to set the tone for the PP. Mariano Rajoy already pointed out in his day that “if someone wants to go to the liberal or conservative party, let them go”. Feijóo arrived in a congress without ideological debate and there are voices that consider that decisions such as agreeing or not with Vox transcend Genoa, given the result of the general elections.

The meeting of the popular would also serve, according to party sources, to strengthen the leadership of Feijóo. The Galician has been “touched” after losing in the polls. There is consensus that in the event of a repeat election he should be the candidate, but the quorum breaks down when it is raised that he is as leader of the opposition. Few see Feijóo in that role and even less reintroducing himself four years later. From the same electoral night they began to look at the Baroness of Madrid. The cries in favor of Ayuso on the balcony of Genoa did not sound innocent and that is why the veterans are betting on a conclave to close wounds around the Galician.

Feijóo had unprecedented support. Both Rajoy and Aznar threw themselves into the campaigns. Both sealed peace at the Valencia convention to raise Feijóo in Moncloa. After not adding 23-J, they remain silent. Aznar's entourage revealed the joke he made taking advantage of Ana Botella's birthday, who was turning 70. The former president would have assured that he and his wife added (140) more than the PP. Beyond private account adjustments, the popular will close ranks around their leader if there is an inauguration of Pedro Sánchez.

None of the chosen ones, Ayuso or Juanma, will give battle before two years. They must consolidate their majorities. Feijóo still has the bullet of the electoral repetition or convince the PNV, in which he will put all his efforts in the coming days, that with the PP he will do better than with Sánchez. Vox's statement is one more step for the popular to seek parliamentary allies. In the match, the feeling is that Feijóo no longer has carte blanche and that he must make changes in Genoa and agree on a strategy for the future, given that Vox's “Trojan horse” is already in the governments.