“If not now, it will be difficult to know when. The scenario has become unbearable. Every week it gets worse. It is very difficult to justify to our people, and to voters as well, that we are not doing more. “It’s all in our power.” … Reflection of leaders at different levels, some of whom are very close to Alberto Nunez Viejo, and from Months ago they argued that was a mistake That the censure proposal was presented without sufficient support – a premise that the party leader continues to defend, at least publicly – proves that something has changed among some sectors of the People’s Party. The debate over popular abbreviations had been going strong for several days, when the leadership began examining the possibility of José Luis Albalos going to prison. It finally happened.
Feijóo has never supported his submission if the votes are not tied because he is convinced that defeating him would be a victory that would strengthen Pedro Sánchez at a moment of extreme weakness. For this reason, he has at various times throughout the past year made appeals to parliamentary partners, looking at the Junts and the PNV – a party with which relations have deteriorated severely. Just as he did again yesterday from Barcelona, when he visited the home of the Catalan Employers Association and asked businessmen to help him lobby Catalan groups. In fact, it was a letter addressed exclusively to Junts.
But internally something changed. There are leaders in the People’s Party who assume that Abalos’s entry into prison cannot be another element. And they understand that Accumulation of scandalsAt this point – with the president’s family on trial or investigation, the prosecutor’s conviction, the Santos Cerdán situation, and the National Court’s investigation into the Socialist Party’s finances – there must be a limit. They say a “political response” by the People’s Party.
They consider it difficult to maintain the rhetoric of “not allowing ourselves to be drugged” and to avoid “resignation” – as Figo wonders daily – if the first opposition party does not take a turn at the same time. Some leaders believe that PP You risk being part of the loop Where Spanish policy was installed. The government now adds the inability to approve the stabilization path and thus the budgets.
Take the risk
These popular leaders insist that the only way to finally turn things around and portray partners – after Gontz announced his separation from Sanchez – is to take the case to the end. Assuming the risk, they admit the loss of the blame proposition as everything seems to point to this moment. “Sometimes you have to take a step so that others don’t take it for you. “Or don’t occupy your space,” he said, clearly referring to the growth of the Vox Party in all opinion polls and with concern that, even at the moment of greatest weakness of the Socialist Executive, the People’s Party would also lose strength and erode.
For this reason, the decision to call a new demonstration on Sunday in Madrid was “too short” for some leaders. In the national leadership, they waited for the judge’s decision on Abalos and Koldo García for a formal evaluation. In Genoa, they considered different options, even though the demonstration had already been on the cards for hours, when they began requesting permits to be able to gather citizens in the Temple of Debod, in the heart of Madrid. They won’t summon her unless Abalos finally goes to prison.
There are leaders who understand the risks: “Sometimes you have to make a move so that others don’t take it for you or take up your space.”
The People’s Party led many demonstrations last year. The last one was before the summer, on June 8, when they launched the slogan “Mafia or Democracy.” Three weeks still need to pass from that day for Santos Cerdán to enter Soto del Real. Before that there were marches against the amnesty Other governmental agreements With the aim of directing citizens’ dissatisfaction with the failure to hold elections. There was also the intention that Vox would not be able to wrest that street mobilization from the People’s Party.
In Genoa, they waited and wanted in equal measure the decision of the Supreme Court last Thursday. The feeling in the popular ranks is bittersweet because the room for maneuver is very narrow. Sanchez showed no signs of reaction Although the scenario is getting worse every day. The general conviction in the People’s Party is that the president will last as long as possible. In this context, we look at the “now or never” movement.
“impracticable”
There was a statement during the People’s Party leader’s appearance on Thursday afternoon that set off alarm bells among many leaders. Feijóo confirmed that the “bad apple” was in fact Sanchez. He predicted that he would not call for elections because he would try to retain power. Then he said: “But this does not mean that all those who consider this situation unsustainable remain unaffected.” The word was that. passionate. Messages were exchanged between some of these leaders. They shifted in the chair from which they were watching the session. They came to believe it was time to make an announcement. That he was going to play the final card. But everything stayed in focus this Sunday in Madrid.
The concern comes at the height of the rise of “Fox” and in the face of the whirlpool that politics is experiencing despite the scandals: “We can exhaust ourselves.”
This disillusionment helped make the meditation more embodied. “We have to take the initiative. If we’re not going to sit idly by, we have to prove something else. Filming partners means pushing them to the limit, making them have to say now if they will continue to support Sanchez with the one who falls.
There was further evidence when Feijóo responded to reporters: “Until now I have not applied for censure. If I had rushed without the necessary support and without all the information we know today, I was wrong. When I have to say something, I’ll tell you. This is my position today. This was the second phrase that remained in the minds of many people within the People’s Party. “Today,” they repeat. For the leaders consulted by the ABC, their party president avoided closing the door as he had done on other occasions.
The issue, as the same sources warn, is that “the political moment is the same, the only thing is to benefit from it or allow it to pass.” In recent months, judicial scandals threatening the government have multiplied. This, as the People’s Party leadership itself realizes, makes us “forget very serious things that cover up the previous things.” However, in Vigo’s party, they assume that Sánchez has made a “journey forward” that may take more or less time, but “it will end.”
In the People’s Party, they are clinging to the flow of the upcoming regional elections, ignoring the very heavy blow that the SWP is taking and the huge growth in the combined PP and Vox. They are convinced of the right-wing process that all Spanish citizens suffer from, including Catalonia, as the last executive – the Catalan CIS – demonstrated just a few days ago. They warn that this would be a “bucket of cold water” for the government.
Although the People’s Party is still in first place in all opinion polls, it will have to face the rise of its main competitor which, in addition, had added value: Abascal’s driving wins the points Among right-wing voters. This also worries advocates considering a censure motion now: they argue that it would be a blow to Figo’s character, who is losing momentum in the latest opinion polls. “We are in a moment where everything has become very fluid. It goes very quickly. “You have to know how to respond and make decisions.”