The Popular Party has raised commitment on Monday if you get a majority at the polls enough to reach the Moncloa. In his closing speech before the PP Congress, the newly re -elected leader of the PP said: “I want a solo government. The only coalition government has not worked.” Feijóo expressed it as an aspiration or a desire, but it did not formulate it as an explicit commitment that it will not put Vox in an eventual government. This Monday, given the doubts, the new general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has ended up clarifying that it is a commitment of Feijóo. He has done so in a statement without microphones before journalists at the PP headquarters, once the press conference is over. “Feijóo’s commitment is a solo government. There will not be a coalition government,” said Tellado.
The new number two De Feijóo has made this clarification after the press conference, in which he has been asked three times about whether Feijóo firmly and firmly committed himself to not govern in coalition with Vox and has answered the doubt without solving the doubt. Genoa sources have specified that the PP does want it to be clear that Feijóo undertakes to govern alone, even if he did not say it with all the letters in his speech on Sunday. What does not rule out the PP is to reach investiture pacts or legislature with the extreme right, which according to all surveys would be essential for Feijóo to come to power if today elections will be held. In fact, the PP leader
To the question about whether Feijóo had expressed an aspiration or a firm commitment to not put Vox in his hypothetical government, Tellado has responded at a press conference: “President Feijóo explained that he wants a solo government. Monochor, alone and united. Sánchez has been the first to have formed a coalition government, which is actually collision. Spain does not deserve a divided government, as we have. unique and united ”.
The journalists asked Tellado up to twice if the PP firmly and firmly committed themselves in coalition with Vox or otherwise the elections would be repeated, and the secretary general replied that Feijóo had “expressed with a meridian clarity” on Sunday about his preferences to govern alone. “In Spain we have a broken government. It is not able to defend a unique position, as with the plan to rearm. That cannot happen again in our country. And that is why Feijóo defends a solo government. We are going to work to get that government intensely.”
At the same time, Tellado said that these are the “aspirations” of the PP, but that the party refuses to refuse to agree with Vox. “We are not here to establish a Vox sanitary cordon. We are not here to corner them,” said the general secretary, just as Domingo Feijóo had done.
The question is not Baladí because the PP also said that it wanted to govern alone before the municipal and autonomic elections of 2022 and, after demanding it Vox as a condition, ended up forming five regional coalition governments with the extreme right, in addition to dozens of municipalities. The ultras broke these executives unilaterally in July 2024, and since then they have approved the PP their budgets in autonomies yes and in others not, in exchange for demands.
The new parliamentary spokesman of the PP, Ester Muñoz, has not ruled out on Monday that her boss of ranks, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, makes vice president of the government to the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, in case of needing her votes to achieve power in future elections. “We are going to wait for elections and see the deputies that we have,” he said in an interview in Telecinco after being expressly asked about a coalition with the Ultra Party. Genoa sources explain that the spokeswoman has not been more explicit in ruling out the coalition with Abascal by “prudence”, but that it is ruled out.
Pedro Sánchez also suffered with his commitment not to govern in coalition with Podemos, who had to end up breaking, although he previously repeated the elections. The PSOE leader said in September 2019 that “he would not sleep peacefully at night” with Podemos within his Council of Ministers, a phrase that has persecuted him. However, Sánchez came to repeat the elections that year to try not to govern with Podemos. After the repetition, and a result that also required the contest of the Pablo Iglesias party, compromised with the coalition.
Feijóo has a vox similar problem. The PP states that its leader undertakes not to put the extreme right in his government, although the head of the opposition has not yet said it with all the letters to record in the newspaper library.
