The confrontation of the PP with Vox in Extremadura, following the failed negotiations between the team led by the popular María Guardiola and the Ultra formation, has opened within the PP, just a month before the general elections, the most obvious split since its leadership Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The People’s Leader’s campaign team is concerned about the picture of lack of coordination these negotiations have been able to paint and the more than possible repetition of the Extremadura elections, as the majority concludes that the new electoral call could negatively impact the interests of the PP.
In some forums and chats shared by MPs, senators, organic positions and territorial leaders, the mismanagement of this crisis is troubling, as EL PAÍS has learned. Among the messages, there is a section that insists on censoring María Guardiola’s behavior, while another group of leaders express more indirect criticism of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his leadership style. “It has not been managed well and the fault is not in disagreeing with Vox, but that Guardiola went too far in his statements without anyone stopping him, thereby nullifying any possibility of a future agreement with Vox. says a national leader of the PP who knows the situation in Extremadura firsthand.
PP MPs from the affected communities have written messages in these internal groups with very critical statements towards the Extremaduran leader: “Well, what a talented man Guardiola has.” “These insults against Vox are also aimed at party colleagues when she says that she would never include them in her government.” “What are you trying to say to your companions?” “The vox of Valencia is the same as the vox of Extremadura.”
Among the negative comments on how Guardiola has handled this delicate political operation, others are aimed at the national leadership of the PP and at its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “We knew it, but until now, since it happened, we were not so aware that we have returned to Rajoyism, that the problems will be solved without doing anything,” says a parliamentarian from that last legislature. Another adds: “It can’t be that everything is fine, whether you agree with Vox in Valencia or disagree in Extremadura because something is wrong.”
The intense press conference that María Guardiola held this Tuesday in Mérida, after the collapse of her direct negotiations with Vox to set up the Assembly Table in Extremadura – which would have total control over the PSOE – and the statements she later made against it in numerous communications media hat Vox, his ideas and his determination not to “swallow” in return for managing this autonomy have been badly received in many circles of the PP. Especially in regions like Murcia, Castilla y León, the Balearic Islands or the Valencian Community, which had to agree on positions with the Ultra formation or are in negotiations.
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A popular leader with important responsibilities in the past takes the opportunity to stress that the problem cannot be attributed to Guardiola, that the popular Extremaduran was very much alone in these negotiations, and joins a statement that half a dozen PP- Officials agree: “It’s not about them, nor about arriving from Madrid with the command, command and yoke of earlier times, but global negotiations should have been thought of to ease some tensions in the areas and more currencies.” exchange, and not convey the image of a federal party, because the PP is not a party federation”.
As early as the phase of compiling the municipal and regional lists, Feijóo assumed that the party’s regional leaders and local barons would be given the same autonomy in forming these lists that he would later claim for himself in the candidatures for the Cortes Generales would. That’s what he did now, with these consequences. This strategy had two clear goals: to try to eliminate the possible failure of many organic and internal problems that did not interest him at all in his goal of governing Spain at the first attempt, and to distance himself from the previous phase. that of Pablo Casado, in which he sent his number two at the time, Teodoro García Egea, with the power to interfere in almost everything. It was Casado and Egea who then promoted Guardiola to succeed the historic José Antonio Monago in the presidency of the PP in Extremadura.
The President of the Extremadura PP, María Guardiola, during the constitution of the Extremadura Assembly on June 20th. Assembly of Extremadura
Guardiola took this transfer of power so seriously that he later told Feijóo the failure of the negotiations with Vox, contrary to what the Vox envoy did. Looking at Genoa, the national headquarters, some national parliamentarians of the PP, who nevertheless have responsibilities in their territories, have asked themselves: “What is our position towards Vox?” because we are lost… what is the national leadership doing, what does she think? because the problems don’t solve themselves.”
“The Big Elephant in the Ballot Box of 23-J”
Various PP officials agree that the exit is now much more than complicated: “Guardiola is in a dead end, he said things he shouldn’t have said and now it is not known how it all can end.” The popular candidate from Extremadura has stated that if the PP forces her to correct and believes Vox must remain in government, she will resign and leave. Some popular politicians commented that “if the whole process fails, the problem is not with Guardiola, who has already announced that he will go home, but with the PP and its future with Vox, the big elephant in of the ballot box.” from 23-J”.
Feijóo’s team and the party leader himself have publicly backed Guardiola, delegating all the negotiations without direct interference, which Vox didn’t do, sending Santiago Abascal’s number three to Mérida. In Genoa, some campaign officials questioned whether the outcome of the elections might be in jeopardy if the elections were repeated, and the majority answered yes.
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