“Oa, oa, oa. Feijóo to Moncloa!” This is how the senior staff of the PP (along with that of the PP of Madrid, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the head) received the party leader in the lobby of the national headquarters, on Génova street, after his victory in the European elections this Sunday. A victory that Feijóo has taken advantage of to reaffirm his leadership at the head of the first opposition party, and to endorse his intention to be the candidate in the next general elections, whenever they may be.
In a statement without questions from journalists after midnight, Feijóo said that “this is the fourth national victory at the polls” since he presided over the party. And he added: “Whenever the PP has won the European elections, it has won the following general elections.” Feijóo has concluded: Not only are we going to win the general elections, but we are going to govern after the next general elections.”
Elections that the PP has not expressly demanded. Although he did do so on May 26 in one of the first campaign events (the Puerta de Alcalá rally-protest), this Sunday neither the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, nor Feijóo himself have done so.
The leader of the PP has said that this Sunday’s victory places Spain “before a new political cycle, before a new responsibility” that he himself assumes “with humility and a sense of State.” “The discourse of fear has not worked,” he said.
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Gamarra appeared before the media at the stroke of midnight to declare the “plebiscite” for Pedro Sánchez won. The ‘number two’ of the PP has not expressly requested that Sánchez call general elections, although he has recalled that “just a year ago he called them after losing the municipal elections by 3.4 points. Today he lost by 4”.
“Pedro Sánchez receives censure at the polls. The Spanish have spoken, we have said loud and clear what we think about politics in our country. Let it be consistent,” he concluded.
The general secretary has also taken the opportunity to endorse Feijóo’s leadership in the PP. “There has been a ‘yes’ to the PP, to Alberto Núñez Feijóo; and a ‘no’ to Pedro Sánchez, to his way of doing politics,” she assured. “We recovered political leadership not only in Spain, but also in the European Parliament,” she said. “The PP hands the PSOE the biggest defeat in European elections in the last 25 years,” she added.
“Alberto Núñez Feijóo wins his third national elections” with Sánchez in “his worst result in European elections.” “Never has a Government left out nine points,” he stated, to respond to the socialist leader, who said during the campaign that he wanted to give himself “the pleasure” of winning Feijóo: “Dear Pedro, the pleasure is ours and we have given it to ourselves.” ”.
The general secretary has also assured that “the Spaniards have taken the floor and given their response.” “Say ‘no’ to Pedro Sánchez’s corruption, to an unjust, immoral and unconstitutional amnesty. ‘No’ to making lies a way of governing,” she said.
A statement that implies adding Alvise Pérez and his group to the PP “bloc”, who have stormed the European Parliament with three deputies.
The PP has boasted in a message from its press team that “never in history has the center-right had such a high percentage of the vote. PP+Vox=43.8”. And Gamarra has said that this 9J the Spanish have said “no” to the amnesty.
But that 43.8% is below the 47.18% of the parties that have supported the amnesty in Congress. Only with 4.6% of ‘The party is over’ would confirm Gamarra’s phrase.
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