The relationship between Ayuso and Feijóo is cordial and their main collaborators are getting along well. “In Madrid, politics is wild, the rhythm is very different from that of Galicia or Andalusia”
This week Spain has lived in its own film ‘Good bye, Lenin’ (2003), here ‘Goodbye, ETA’. If someone had woken up from a coma after 12 years and turned on the TV, they might have thought that the terrorist gang is still killing. “ETA is alive,” said Isabel Díaz Ayuso on Thursday. “The foundations of the housing law are on the ashes of the Hipercor attack,” said Pedro Rollán, PP senator in the chamber on Wednesday.
no proposals
Popular people, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo to the head, They have added the first week of the campaign to the strategy that Ayuso has done so well so far, of “nationalizing” the campaign as much as possible. There are no proposals. Everything is Pedro Sánchez, who is associated with terrorists and called a liar. The president of Madrid came out emphatically from the first minute against the inclusion of 44 convicted of belonging to or collaborating with ETA on the lists of EH Bildu and recalled that the PSOE has relied on the nationalist formation to carry out multiple initiatives in Congress.
One of Ayuso’s advisers considers that this matter, like the errors of the ‘yes is yes’ law that allowed the sentences for sex offenders to be lowered, “stir the body to the Spaniards” and identifies Sánchez with “the enemy to beat”, “the enemy of Spain”. Sources from the PP leadership agree that they expect this debate to “demobilize” the Socialist swing voter: “Many will stay at home because they will be ashamed to support candidates of a PSOE that agrees with terrorists and some, we do not know how many, may decide to try to throw out the Socialists by voting for the PP.”
Will it work outside of Madrid?
The “anti-Sanchismo” has been the main catapult for Ayuso and keeps him in this campaign in which she wants to achieve the absolute majority in Madrid. Another thing will be to see, on the night of May 28, if it has worked well for the PP in the rest of Spain. His boss, Feijóo, is also at stake in the municipal and regional elections in the other 11 communities that go through the polls. The Galician politician needs to show that the PP is recovering from the traumatic departure of Pablo Casado and is gaining territorial power (Valencian Community, Aragon and Castilla-La Mancha as main squares).
The relationship between Ayuso and Feijóo is cordial (at least for now) and their main collaborators (Miguel Angel Rodriguez, by her, and Elias Bendodo and Stephen Gonzalez Pons, on his part) are understanding each other well. They see and talk often, to set strategies and avoid misunderstandings (at least for now). Both admit that they agree on the diagnosis: “In Madrid politics is wild, the rhythm is very different from that of Galicia or Andalucía”. It is not so easy to adapt.
Last Tuesday, before the EH Bildu lists with those convicted for their relationship with ETA monopolized the face-to-face between Sánchez and Feijóo in the Senate, one of the people who make up the hard core of the PP president justified Ayuso’s harshness. “She needs the absolute and that radicalism that some see helps us so that Feijóo appear moderate”, points out an adviser to the Galician politician.
The psychological effect that the 28-M elections will leave on society will be decisive to see in which state Feijóo and Sánchez face the second part of the year. Both will go to the polls in the general elections to be held before the end of 2023.
Tranquility in Moncloa
In Moncloa, on the other hand, they see the PP’s strategy with EH Bildu as a failure because they have stepped on “too much accelerator”. “We have had to remind them that they lied about the 11-M attacks and said that it had been ETA,” say government sources, who consider that this Islamist attack and the “use of terrorism and the victims” mobilize their progressive electorate.
The analysis of Sánchez’s team is that making the terrorist group and the aberzales the plot axis shows that Feijóo “has nothing” to refute the chief executive. “With a record occupancy and an economy that is doing well, they don’t even know what to say, that’s why they bring up terrorism. It is a campaign in negative”affirms one of the main collaborators of the president before adding that Sánchez “will continue with his proactive campaign [con anuncios]” this weekend.
Government sources have been illuminating for days the differences between Ayuso, who defends the illegalization of the aberzale formation, and Feijóo, who does not believe it is possible with the current law on political parties. They believe that “they are doing the campaign to Vox“ and it has turned against them like “a boomerang” by putting the accent on those internal disparities that, in any case, may explode (or not) on May 29 if the Madrid devastates the absolute and the Galician fails to recover any autonomous community for the PP. But for that there are nine days left, almost a lifetime in politics.
2023-05-20 15:02:14
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