The barons of the PP close ranks with Feijóo so that he tries to form a government and as a candidate in an electoral repetition

The PP is digesting the electoral result that distanced it, by far, from the vast majority that the polls had predicted. Despite the fact that arithmetic is so devilish that it prevents Alberto Núñez Feijóo from reaching La Moncloa, despite his dream of doing so either with the abstention of the PSOE or with the if it is of Vox, PNV, UPN and Coalición Canaria, the PP candidate has decided to make a move and start contacts to try to form a government. There is no hint of crisis in the PP. At least for now. And the barons of the party, among them the powerful Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Juanma Moreno Bonilla, close ranks with the leader.

The regional presidents and territorial leaders of the PP have endorsed Genoa’s strategy of trying to form a government; but the support goes further towards Feijóo, to whom Isabel Díaz Ayuso has explicitly supported as a candidate in a hypothetical electoral repetition that, initially, she has not even wanted to consider. “I would have wanted a much better result, we are not going to fool ourselves, but we have to try, we have to seek governability,” he said before the cloud of journalists who were waiting for the arrival of the PP leaders to the National Board of Directors that the PP had convened before the elections with the aim of celebrating a victory that would take Feijóo to La Moncloa.

“What we cannot is get used to the fact that a person who loses and who is going to govern with those who manifestly hate Spain is normal and we get used to a loser taking the reins of Spain,” said Ayuso, who governed in his first stage after obtaining the worst results in the history of the PP in the Community of Madrid thanks to a coalition with Ciudadanos that Vox endorsed. The Madrid president has reproached the Socialists for celebrating their result in Ferraz, which will force them to agree with the pro-independence forces and count on the abstention of Junts to revalidate the coalition government.

“I plan to be by his side at all times,” Ayuso said, clearing up any doubts that could be raised about Genoa in the face of the possibility that he might try to take over the reins. “I am not in the scenario of repeating elections but of looking for a stable government within the difficulties and the pacts because right now it is the result of the polls, but we must try to form that government, but if we go to the electoral scenario of course it has to be the candidate”, he responded about Feijóo.

The eyes had settled on Ayuso after the followers on election night chanted his name due to the manifest discomfort of the candidate. “Last night in Genoa nothing to do with that of 28M”, they admit in the environment of the Madrid president, reports Fatima Knight. That is why his words will take on special relevance.

But much earlier there was the explicit support of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, one of the main resources that Feijóo has. The same election night he vindicated the work he has carried out in the short year that he has led the PP. And upon his arrival in Genoa with a hangover, the Andalusian president has said that Feijóo’s leadership is in question “at all”. After recalling that he has won the elections by rising 47 seats compared to Pablo Casado in 2019, Moreno Bonilla has supported the strategy of the PP leadership: “Now what we have to do is see the options to govern. The goal is for whoever has won the elections to govern.”

Moreno’s message, explain the sources consulted from the Andalusian PP, is not “a preventive message to deactivate any critical movement” or hostile against Feijóo. Nobody is in it now, but the PP of Andalusia did see it necessary to give a clear sign of authority and position itself clearly in favor of the national leader, while at the gate of Genoa the crowd gathered on election night chanted “Ayuso, Ayuso”, reports Dani Cela.

“If I had come out, there were Extremaduran flags, they would still have applauded me,” former regional president Juan Antonio Monago ironized about that moment on election night. He has also been “proud” of the PP leader and has endorsed his attempt to form a government.

Neither Ayuso nor Moreno Bonilla have delved into the reasons why the goal they had set for themselves has not been achieved and which some leaders consider, to some extent, to be due to the agreements with Vox. “It is very difficult to manage expectations when there is a daily bombardment from different groups and practically all of them agree that you will be above 150 seats. It is not the expectation generated by the party, it is the expectation generated by published opinion”, said the Andalusian.

The acting president of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, does believe that the division “in the center right” has penalized the PP so that it could “have a more sufficient majority” and considers that the useful vote strategy did not work at all. “The important thing is that the PP has won the elections and Feijóo, of all the candidates, is the one who should respond to that legitimate aspiration to stand for investiture,” he told reporters.

Alfonso Fernández Mañueco has assured that “any other alternative” of government to Feijóo would mean “more instability and uncertainty.” “The PP has won the elections in Spain, which has opted for change and dialogue; Feijóo has earned trying to form a government ”, has added the head of the executive of Castilla y León.

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