Why does Feijóo go to the Canary Islands in the final stretch?

If you worry Vox, vote PP. If Vox does not attend the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (because the Electoral Board has not allowed it) and neither does Ana Oramas, white and bottled, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's horoscope has taken note of both absences, and dictates that trip to the Canary Islands a few days before the day of reflection. Virgo, go to the Islands and you will be right —it could be read—. His astral charts, and the data handled by his team, have encouraged the PP candidate to travel to the Canary Islands three days before the end of the electoral campaign. It's not a minor decision. When you are in the final stretch, every minute counts, every kilometer on a candidate's agenda triggers its value on the stock market.. Feijóo knows that the Islands are a place that forces you to leave the road for a good handful of hours. Even so, his team has decided to incorporate two rallies in the archipelago coinciding with the moment in which each phrase, image, city or gesture can end up facilitating or hindering the race towards Moncloa.

The leader of the PP will land on the Islands in just twenty-four hours because he knows that a good handful of seats are at stake – where not, some will say, unaware that Vox was unable to formalize its candidacy for Congress for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife when it occurred from a low part of its members—. The Electoral Board rejected the appeals of those of Santiago Abascal in the first week of July and left Vox without two probable seats (or some more, who knows), acts that Feijóo intends to reinforce his alleged sufficient majority —parliamentarians who, with the map on the table, he will have to dispute his common-law partner in the archipelago, Coalición Canaria—.

There is more. Vox will not be the only one absent in the battle that on Sunday will be waged by the options that, in the Islands, the electorate finds in the background on the right. The PP will not have to deal with Ana Oramas either, the deputy with the most knowledge, valuation and pull in the archipelago. Oramas (CC) decided months ago to end his long period in Parliament to return to regional politics. The person who has been the spokesman for the Coalition in Congress has changed the seat in Carrera de San Jerónimo for the recently released vice-presidency of the Canary Islands Parliament, which, in his case, draws a step to one side —low profile that Oramas announced a few years ago months-.

Although it will not play to an empty door (the Coalition is doing the rest these days, with the aim of not losing its historic presence in the Congress of Deputies), without Vox and without Ana Oramas on the other side of the network, the PP counts in the Islands with two match balls that Feijóo wants to add to his cause. Coalition and PP are electoral roommates. Depending on whether the elections are local or national, some and others lead, for or against, it depends, a transfer of votes. At the municipal, insular or regional levels Coalición tends to grow driven by its powerful organization and implementation on the ground. However, when the call is to Congress and the Senate, a good part of those who vote for CC in the local scene change the Coalition ballot for that of the PP. Feijóo knows (or has been told). Hence, playing the last set of the match these days, he opens a gap in his peninsular agenda to plant himself in the Canary Islands. The popular candidate wants to shore up the expectations of his lists and, above all, he aspires to win the two seats that Vox would have obtained if he could run. If, already involved in the task, the play-off gives you any joy in the Coalition fishing ground, the trip will have been well worth it for those who during these last days of the campaign will travel the country evangelizing about the need to concentrate the center-right vote —even the one that moves to the right of the right—in the PP.

If you are concerned about Vox voting PP, it is the slogan that the popular ones —if not explicitly, yes with that intention— are sown in this last breath of the campaign. Sánchez will not appear in the Canary Islands these days. Feijóo will. Symptoms. signs. Tracks. With the end of the campaign flying over them, the candidates turn to those territories where they have time to scratch something else, where they dance some acts of deputy that can finally be decisive to govern. The PP is known in a sweet moment in the archipelago. This last weekend the popular ones have solemnized their entry into the autonomous government, thus culminating weeks of glory with the constitution of many town halls and councils where they are part of the government majorities. The change of the change that the CC and PP have consummated — thus concluding the change that the Socialists announced four years ago now — has the popular ones led by Manuel Domínguez, since last Saturday vice president of the regional Executive, trading upwards.

Both in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in Las Palmas, a match is being played that seventy-two hours from the end of the campaign is still open, which is why the presence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the archipelago is not surprising —nor, sensu contrario, the non-appearance of Pedro Sanchez—. The former president has conditioned an abstention from the PSOE to facilitate the hypothetical formation of a PP government (monocolor, without Vox) on the popular undoing the executives where the socialists won, as is the case of the Canary Islands.

Domínguez, president of the PP in the Islands, has already responded that if Sánchez had answered Feijóo in the islands, he would govern the most voted list. After the regional elections, Feijóo told me not to open any type of negotiation in the Canary Islands until Sánchez answered and told him if he accepted that the list with the most votes should govern —Domínguez has recounted these days—. ides of july. Episodes written on the ice bar that are already too far behind on the calendar. Now what it comes down to, in the eyes of the PP, is to capture the seats that Vox has left in no man's land in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife; and, if the task goes well for them, also take advantage of the fact that Ana Oramas does not show up to enter the Coalition fishing ground. The horoscope does not say so (or perhaps it does), it is suggested by those who, with calculators in hand, advise the PP candidate and see the Canary Islands as one of the most electorally fertile territories in the final stretch of the campaign.