The 19J appointment is the first electoral test for Feijóo and the PP seeks to outperform the entire left in votes and seats
MADRID, 15 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will travel to Seville on May 18 to hold a meeting with businessmen, an agenda in the Andalusian capital that is not completely closed and could include more activities, according to Europa Press sources from the team of the president of the party, who already anticipate that in the campaign he will have a “different” and “parallel” agenda to that of his candidate to “comb” more territory.
This is Feijóo’s first trip to Andalusia in the middle of the electoral campaign for the elections in this community, set for June 19, in which the PP-A aspires to have more votes and seats than the entire left together, online with what already happened in Madrid with Isabel Díaz Ayuso a year ago.
The national leadership of the PP will work with the Andalusian PP to close the presence of Feijóo in the Andalusian campaign. For now, the president of the Xunta and candidate for re-election, Juanma Moreno, has advanced that he will coincide with the national president of the PP on two or three occasions.
Apart from these central campaign events — surely the opening and closing — PP sources have told Europa Press that Feijóo and Moreno will have “separate” and “different” agendas, given that the objective is to “comb” as much as possible this autonomy possible and carry the message of the PP to all corners.
It is a strategy similar to the one that Pablo Casado maintained in his day in the Andalusian elections of December 2018, just five months after having come to the leadership of the PP, and that former President Mariano Rajoy also followed in various electoral appointments, as for example in the 2009 campaign that led Feijóo to the presidency of the Xunta for the first time.
On Wednesday, Feijóo is scheduled to meet at 11:00 am with Andalusian businessmen, to whom he will presumably present the economic plan that he sent to La Moncloa with tax cuts to help measured and low incomes combat inflation.
In this way, Feijóo returns to Seville a month and a half after being elected president of the party in the Andalusian capital, which was where the extraordinary Party Congress was held to elect a new leader to replace Pablo Casado. In the Plaza de España in Seville he posed for a family photo with his new team on April 3.
The Andalusian PP achieved one of its worst results in democracy on December 3, 2019, achieving only 26 seats (20.75%), seven seats less than four years earlier and losing more than 300,000 votes. Now, the panorama is different and a good part of the polls agree that he can double results and reach 50 deputies.
If the forecasts are fulfilled, the ‘popular’ would now recover a good part of the votes that supported Ciudadanos four years ago and also aspire to Vox voters returning to the PP. Feijóo himself has confessed that when the campaign starts he will ask “the PP voters who voted for Vox in the last Andalusian elections, to return to the Popular Party.”
“We ask the voters of Vox to give us their confidence to make a very powerful center-right in Andalusia that surpasses the entire Andalusian left in votes and seats,” Feijóo said on RNE this Friday, where he already said that Juanma Moreno will be the that he will have free hands to decide on post-election agreements in case he needs Vox.
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