Feio Surprises PP Advisory Board ‘Outside the Party’

No one knew it except his closest team. The only one who seems to be trusted, at least, is the inevitable president of the PP, Alberto Nunez Feio. This Tuesday, the Galician leader announced in a press release his first decision as the party’s future leader: “Create an office that is parallel to the popular party structure to divert input from people outside politics.” Inverted commas is an official statement sent to journalists on the PP form that he uses in this week’s campaign for the sole candidate for the Extraordinary Congress.

But they did not know the temporary leadership of the party. Neither in the organizing committee, as confirmed by elDiario.es. Feijo’s statement three days before the Seville conclave reinforces suspicions about the PP made and retired by President Pablo Casado.

The Galician ‘secret’, which suggests that during his 13 years at the helm of Xunta, the name of one of his advisers was not announced until he announced it, has a party that has undergone a deep renewal since leaving in 2018. Mariano Rajoy. Feio will be able to change the party’s organizational structure this week when the PP National Executive Committee meets for the first time. While he has no obligation to nominate a person to occupy the General Secretariat in Seville this weekend, the congress must vote on 35 members of one of the main organs of the PP’s internal life. From this list will come the future, or the future, Number two.

But the current parliamentary group is completely different. It is determined by the outgoing leader from top to bottom. In the two 2019 elections, he used the PP Charter, which gives the national leadership the last word on voter lists at the state level. Also at different levels, though here the ability (or resistance) to negotiate territories is greater. This was confirmed in the May 4, 2021 elections due to the inclusion of Tony Canto Isabel Diaz Ayuso in the lists. The first outbreak of the Civil War, which ended with Cassado and him Number twoTheodore Garcia Aegean, outside Genoa.

Feio will have to work with this parliamentary group indefinitely, although all indications are that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will speed up the legislature as much as possible. Limit, end of 2023. That is, the PP president will be able to form the party he wants, but the faces and votes that will keep him in Congress are what it is. And that will be for the next year and a half. In recent weeks, there has been a rotation of various speakers using control sessions, which they saw as a kind of trial and error in the party to determine the future direction of the parliamentary group.

While he himself goes to the Senate, his Face to face With Sanchez they will be limited. And will not be able to present the opposition program directly in the debates scheduled for the summer. He will have to mediate and at the moment the position is not guaranteed by the current Speaker and Acting General Coordinator Kuka Gamara.

However, PP is immersed in the preparation of the XX National Congress (extraordinary). And in the midst of an organizational turmoil as the government approves an anti-crisis plan, Gamara prepares for his confrontation with Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday, addressing a plenary session on a report on the Council of Europe and the Ukraine crisis, and the debate was focused. On the economic measures of easing the price of the shopping cart, Feio was surprised by the announcement of this “office parallel to the structure of the People’s Party.”

This structure will not respond to PP leaders, only to the next president. Who unites him and who does not, he decides. The idea is to involve “independent professionals” from outside who “want to complement and improve” the party’s “ideology” from “civic life,” the statement said. According to the press release, everything arises “before the proliferation of professions that (…) showed interest in collaborating with a new project.” “It serves to seek political solutions from foreign policy,” the statement said.

“The office of the president,” he continues, “will make available to the party the work submitted by the people summoned by Feiyo, which will not necessarily be known.” “It will be a wise body, without a communication profile,” he insists, adding that “it will have permanent members, its composition will be dynamic and it will be open for periodic cooperation.”

There are no other parties in Congress

“The president’s office will also have input from people integrated into the PP in the present or in the recent past, but in any case it will be open to all kinds of political and ideological sensitivities,” the press release said. On Tuesday by the Feijo team.

This latest confirmation contradicts the organic uniqueness that will appear in Congress this weekend. It is customary for the parties to invite other formations to their conclaves, more or less ideologically related. But there will only be PP in the XX National Congress of PP.

Sources in the organizing committee, led by Esteban Gonzalez Ponce, confirmed this Monday that classic invitations have not been issued for other matches. “PP wants to be the only center-right party,” the same sources said.

Yes, this invitation was sent “for education” and “individually” to principals living with the PP in the Andalusian government headed by Juan Manuel Moreno. Andalusia is set to hold elections this year, and after Castilla and Leon stumbled, everything is nervous at the Palacio de San Telmo. Moreno needs Ciudadanos to withstand Vox’s push to avoid the same situation as Alfonso Fernando Manieko, who has agreed to co-rule with the far-right, which is already rebuilding his confidence, by delaying his investment beyond the feudal lords.

An unfortunate scenario for a Galician who wanted this agreement with Santiago Abascal to be related to Cassado’s mandate and not his mandate. At the European level in PP, the words of the party president, Donald Tusk, who attacked the idea of ​​negotiating with the far right, still resonate. The German ambassador did the same in Spain.

“We are competing with them,” they were acquitted by organizing a congress on Monday. But the invitation fell on deaf ears. Neither Juan Marini nor any other citizen advisers will attend the congress Daniel Sella. Marin attended the PP Congress in Andalusia in late 2021, but those are big words for those in the national leadership of his party who were victims. Hostile takeover By the former leadership of PP, the operation is led by Egea and Fran Ervias.

Feio has been reassured since he took the step of replacing the baron-backed Cassado that he wants to reclaim the party with “11 million votes”, citing the absolute majority that Mariano Rajoy achieved in November 2011. Notes on the 1990 Re-Congress. , Which took place in Seville and which gave full authority to Jose Maria Aznar to lead the transition from Manuel Fraga’s People ‘s Alliance to PP, which took him to Monclo.

Now they do not want a “refund”, but they want a “restat”. For this, the next president of the PP has already made the first decision: “Advisory Committee outside the organic structure of the party.”