Amid the debate within the PP on how to confront with Vox, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided this Sunday to mark his own profile and enter the direct clash. At least as regards the field. “We do not accept lessons of those who have never solved a problem in rural areas and have solutions for everything,” said the leader of the Popular Party in veiled allusion to the formation of Santiago Abascal, during the closing of a day on the primary sector in Membrilla, Ciudad Real. “[Tampoco lecciones] Of those who, when they have had the opportunity to be in the regional governments, have abandoned them because it is much easier to criticize than to govern, ”added the head of the opposition.
Vox left five executives that he shared with the popular last year, including the Valencian Community and Castilla y León, for the devastating Dana and for the wave of fires. Catastrophes that have benefited the ultras, without responsibilities in governments when disasters happened.
In Membrilla, Feijóo darts to Vox have been accompanied by a speech focused on the rural world whose tone has been very similar – as has been happening for months – that of the ultras. The Popular Party argues that one of the main problems is an abundant “bureaucracy” and excess measures derived from climate change. [No aceptamos lecciones] nor of the ecologism of the salon or of the ruralism of banner. I do not accept more soflables, but I ask for more solutions, which is what politicians are for, ”Feijóo continued.“ I do not accept lessons of those who try to squeeze the vote of those who know and then deceive them, ”he said in the same line.”[Tampoco aceptamos lecciones] of those who support unfair tariffs for our products, ”he said about the measures of the US President Donald Trump, whom Vox blesses in each movement.
The PP leader has signed up directly against Abascal while just this Sunday, at the same time, Vox celebrates. The event held in Vistalegre and Feijóo’s reprimand against the Ultras closes a week in which different surveys reveal the glowing rise of Vox, a situation that places PSOE and PP before the dilemma of how to beat with Abascal. Especially the case of the popular ones, who have governed in coalition in five regional executives – Castilla and Léon, Valencian Community, Extremadura, Aragon and Region of Murcia – and continue to do so in a hundred municipalities. But above all, the rise of the ultras also implies the bleeding of the PP, which loses around a million voters (and falls to its worst result, 30.7%) from the general elections of 2023, according to the same barometer), while Vox shoots at 17.4%.
The concern is greater considering that Castilla y León and Andalucía have regional elections in the semester of next year. In the case of the former, with a stronger vox that can harm the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, very punished for fire management. And both communities with a special relevance of the rural world. “I do not accept lessons of those who have seen in their lives are the gardens of the Complutense,” Feijóo said this Sunday who writes agrarian laws. “[No acepto lecciones] Of those who protect the wolf more than the farmer, of those who blame everything to climate change and let us clean the mountain (…) The battle of the common agricultural policy will be hard and just started, ”he added.
Vox’s access has led to the gradual tightening of the opposition leader’s tone, endorsed within different sectors of the formation. “I understand that who has the head in the courts does not have the capacity to make proposals for his country,” he said this Sunday in Membrilla, where he has also addressed the Pedro Sánchez government. “We need a deep change without concessions,” he said.
Within the PP there are also doubts about how far the decibels can go. In some territories, in fact, there are those who recognize that “there is something in Feijóo that does not convince a part of the electorate.” This Monday, the Chief of the Popular concentrates at the headquarters of the Genoa party to the Board of Directors, a meeting to which a good part of the barons usually go according to the agenda. And with much to say.
