The barons of the PP will have the freedom to negotiate with Vox without submitting to Genoa
The PP continues to insist on the first commandment of the tables of the law of Alberto Núñez Feijóo: «Do not govern by losing. Govern winning». And he continues to insist despite the fact that he knows perfectly well that it is a useless effort -a prelude, therefore, to melancholy-, because the PSOE does not accept that premise if the PP does not break its agreements with Vox. In fact, in 2019 the popular ones governed in Andalusia, Murcia and Madrid, being second, and thanks to the external support of the formation of Santiago Abascal. In other words, the “governments of change” were possible thanks to what the same party now calls “losers' pacts.”
In the national leadership of the PP, everyone is aware that the proposal is today a toast to the sun. “The PSOE is not going to accept it,” laconicly sums up a high-ranking official. But Feijóo and his closest team continue to insist on that idea with a view to the general elections. The opposition leader is malicious that Pedro Sánchez will agree to continue in La Moncloa if he comes second, but adds with all his partners the 176 deputies who mark the threshold of absolute majority. Something that has never happened at the national level.
The debate on the most voted list has this national objective, but the popular ones also want to extend it to the autonomies. In fact, on the night of May 28, Feijóo will launch that message: that the list with the most votes in all the autonomies and municipalities govern.
If there is no “global” agreement with the PSOE so that the list with the most votes in all the autonomous communities governs, the PP will be legitimized to explore other pacts, according to the sources consulted.. Even with Vox, wherever I can't help it. Although his first option is always to “rule alone.”
In any case, sources from the PP leadership assure that Feijóo will give freedom to the territories to negotiate the pacts. “What is it, that there is only intelligent life in Genoa, 13?” sum up the sources, who recall that the leader of the main opposition party already told the barons that they would pilot the post-electoral scenario, as this newspaper announced on March 13.
According to its internal tracking, the PP would be the force with the most votes in the Community of Madrid, the Valencian Community, Murcia, La Rioja, Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla. In all of them he aspires to govern alone, but does not rule out any scenario. Voices of the popular leadership recognize that the PP could not avoid a coalition with Vox in the Valencian Community, which is the key to the vault of 28-M. The survey of this newspaper predicts between 33 and 35 seats for the PP and 16 for Vox, almost half. “With these figures it will be very difficult to leave them out,” a senior official from Genoa privately acknowledges.
In the case of Aragon, the casuistry is more complex, since the circumstance may arise that, adding up with Vox, the PP with whom it agrees is with the regionalists of Aragon Exists. In the Balearic Islands, Genoa leaders also see it as difficult to leave Vox out of the game. And in La Rioja they discount the absolute majority of Gonzalo Capellán.
And if the PP joins Vox where it seems that it will be second: Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha? In Genoa they believe that the two socialist barons of these regions who can be on their side in the battle for the most voted list to govern “without having to lean on the extremes”. If Vara and Page put pressure on Sánchez in the expectation of losing power in two large fiefdoms, it will be easier for him to give in, judge the PP sources.