The post-electoral path is not being easy for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but the popular leader does not lower his arms. The Popular Party continues trying to articulate the necessary support so that, as the formation with the most votes on 23-J, it forms a government and puts an end to four years of Sanchismo, despite the new strategy launched by the Socialists and the leaks of Vox.
“We are going to work for an investiture of Feijóo and that this support is produced,” said the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, who refuses, like the rest of the hard core of Genoa, to give up the battle for the investiture despite the divergences shown by the PNV and CC -two fundamental parties for the PP to reach the necessary numbers- to share an equation with Vox.
Neither of the two main parties will give in, which adds pressure to Felipe VI, who is the one who should commission the formation of the next Government. In Genoa they cling to the historical tradition of our politics that the candidate with the most votes at the polls should do it; in Ferraz they argue that Feijóo does not have support and that article 99 of the Constitution is clear: if you have a parliamentary majority you can go to the investiture.
Pedro Sánchez's refusal to meet with Feijóo, they believe in the PP, entrenches the situation of “ungovernability” in which our policy finds itself: “Speaking between the main parties is always good, but that Sánchez refuses to accept Feijóo's victory complicates the situation”, admitted Bendodo this Tuesday in an interview on Telecinco.
A “normal” date with Abascal
In fact, Ferraz is already using Feijóo's secret appointment with Santiago Abascal -revealed by Vox to drag the PP to his right- to justify his slamming of the popular leader. In this regard, the general coordinator of the PP stressed the “normality” of the meeting, since Feijóo has been meeting with leaders of different parties for a long time.
The rarity, they think in the PP, is that the socialist general secretary refuses to speak with the president of the most voted party. What's more, as detailed by Bendodo, Sánchez has not yet congratulated Feijóo for winning the elections