The President of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, held this Tuesday a meeting with the ambassadors in Spain of the member countries of the EU and the representative of the European Commission PP (EFE / PP)
For once, it was good for Alberto Núñez Feijóo not to be an MP. The leader of the PP exercises the leadership of the opposition with the handicap of his absence from Congress, but in Vox’s motion of no confidence the obstacle turned into an advantage, they believe the PP. Although he could have left as a senator without the right to intervene, the majority opinion in the PP is that Feijóo’s decision, on the initiative of the Ultras, to stay away during the parliamentary debate was a success that allowed him to disappear from the picture of the unsavory spectacle that lived in Parliament. The masses breathe a sigh of relief because they “have not lost anything” in the motion, knowing that they have not won it either and that Pedro Sánchez’s government benefits most “from a victory in discount time”.
Feijóo doesn’t harm clothing to be absent from all sorts of awkward places when he’s interested in marking distances. He did it at the inauguration of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, so as not to take a picture with the only joint government with Vox, or at the demonstrations called by the extreme right to oppose Pedro Sánchez’s executive or in defense of the Spaniards protest Catalonia, where he avoided reproducing the photograph of Columbus. With Vox’s motion of no confidence, Feijóo had a simple reason for not attending because he is not an MP, and he exploited it, even maintaining strict silence during the two-day debate in Parliament. Like the thing wasn’t with him.
In the leadership of the PP they congratulate themselves because they believe they managed to take the picture of their leader on Tuesday with the EU ambassadors in the Swedish diplomatic mission in Madrid and on Wednesday with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der, to contrast Leyen, to a “circus” in Congress that discredits all participants. “Feijóo did well not to participate, we suspected that it would not be a very edifying and constructive debate, and the implementation of the motion confirmed that to us,” says a member of the leadership. “Vox loses a lot with the movement, but everyone loses, it’s a discrediting of brutal politics,” analyzes one popular leader, with an uneasiness about the experience shared by many in the PP.
The PP leaves the movement with a sense of relief because at least it can say that, according to the interpretation of various party leaders and cadres, it has not suffered much attrition in an initiative aimed at eroding it. “We haven’t lost anything,” summed up a popular leader with restrained satisfaction this Wednesday in the inner courtyard of the congress. In Feijóo’s team, they believe that the motion “reinforces them as a useful alternative to Sánchez” against Vox, which has presented an initiative already “discredited” and “melted” without the execution having managed to overturn it. But although the PP and Vox constituencies are communicating vessels, in the PP they know they are not capitalizing on all the votes that the far right is losing, so excessive attrition of the ultras is not of interest to them Autonomy and municipal elections in May, some leaders also acknowledge.
The mainstream parties know they have not gained much from a debate that has allowed the coalition government to breathe fresh air and change pace in the face of its recent turmoil. “It is logical that the government and the vice president are better off because at least their internal problems are not being discussed and there is no better glue than an external enemy like Vox. However, no one is clearly the winner,” reflects another PP veteran. In order not to win, Feijóo must have thought it was better not to participate.
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