“In politics, or give a elbow to the next door, or punch the one in front.” With this eloquent phrase explained on Friday an regional president of the PP the tranquility with which the process of the XXI National Congress that has given Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been developed his second (and last) opportunity for his final assault on the Moncloa. Without rivals, without amendments to the political presentation and without a battle for the primary that Isabel Díaz Ayuso promised to reculate, the conclave that was foreseen relaxed has been meek.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been elected this Saturday by acclamation as president of the Popular Party for a second term. 99.24% of votes in favor of the 2,799 compromisaries that have voted. 21 have voted blank and 18 null votes have been recorded. 465 have not participated. An image of imposed serenity, vitaminate, to contrast with the state of maximum agitation that spreads in the PSOE and the government.
The coincidence has not been casual. It was Pedro Sánchez who proposed to celebrate both events on the same day. Even in the same city. As one of Feijóo’s main men said in conversation with journalists in a recess, it is the socialists who “have decided to make a fool of them.”
“There is nothing more to compare what this morning has happened on Ferraz Street with what is happening here,” Feijóo started the speech for the presentation of his candidacy. A text that your team has retouched throughout the day as the news arose at the federal headquarters of the PSOE. Especially the exclusive of Eldiario.es on the “inappropriate” behavior of Paco Salazar and that has cost him his organic position and in the government.
Feijóo has taken advantage of the gasoline of ‘antischismo’ to impose its will on the PP. It was what was sought, and what the barons have granted to his boss of ranks, aware of the importance of achieving power when Pedro Sánchez summons the polls, occurs when he occurs.
It is the last chance for Feijóo, but also for the game. They have everything in their favor, including the self -counted the left. But the memory of what happened in 2023 prevents the PP from calmly approaching the imminent electoral cycle.
“Surely we are going to arrive. I will arrive and we will arrive,” he said in a very long intervention in which he has claimed his own “freedom” to define the project with which he will arrive at La Moncloa. “If we do not get the change, we will have failed,” he said.
In the PP they know that if Feijóo fails again it will not only be his last chance. Another fiasco such as 2023 can suppose the implosion of the party. That is why they have given full powers. And he has taken the opportunity to make a PP tailored, both organic and ideological. The extraordinary Congress that has been more like a political convention has ended with the hoarding of all the power by the leader.
Only two barons threatened to give some battle. Isabel Díaz Ayuso promised to do everything possible to maintain the maximum of “a militant, a vote.” But when it was time to present the amendment, negotiate and defend it, he went on a trip to Miami and New York.
The Madrid president has resigned to influence the internal electoral system of the PP and has maintained a very low profile since she found that she was not going to get her idea. The mixed system that, if necessary, will give all the power to the party apparatus has the majority support of the other regional leaders. Closed case.
Ayuso has gone unnoticed during the first two days of the conclave, although he has in his favor that he will close the event this Sunday. He will only share the stage with Feijóo.
Chromos distribution
Alejandro Fernández also tried to impose his vision of the PP relations with Juns and raised an express prohibition to agree with the Carles Puigdemont party. There was no option either. In fact, in the political presentation, approved by assent, the PP first written in its ideology the idea that the citizen can choose in which language to address the public administration in the autonomous communities with co -official language. Something that appears in the law, but was not in the PP documents.
Of course, Feijóo does not want what happened at the last presidents conference. The PP has withdrawn the concept of “cordial bilingualism”, historically flagging by the leader, to introduce “the constitutional right to receive teaching in Spanish at all stages of the educational system and throughout the nation, from respecting the co -official languages of each of the communities and in compliance with judicial sentences.”
The PP does maintain the idea of prohibiting the use of co -official languages in Congress, as established in this legislature, and adds to this veto “the organs of the highest political level of cooperation between the national government and the autonomous communities.” That is, the conferences of presidents. In the last one, Ayuso took all the prominence when he got up and left the meeting when Imanol Pradales spoke in Basque. He did not enter until Salvador Illa finished his speech in Catalan.
The presentation has been carried out by Alma Azcurra, Eurodiputada, Ayusista and ‘number two. of the reformism foundation 21. A hard maid from a young age in Faes, the factory of José María Aznar. Feijóo has put in his hands the writing of the PP electoral program and will sit in an address committee where there are no regional fees. If in 2022 the PP ‘baronized’, in that XXI National Congress Feijóo has tried to retrace that path to try to recentralize the party.
To do this, he will have one of his most faithful collaborators. His right hand for years in Galicia, whom he trusts most to execute his orders: Miguel Tellado. The new secretary general received this Saturday the direct order to take him to Moncloa: “Aznar told me, ‘It is not general, it is colonel.’ To be a general secretary you have to win and govern, Miguel.” A reference to Francisco Álvarez Cascos, Aznar’s ‘number two’ in 1996.
Tellado will be accompanied by other “hard.” The parliamentary spokeswoman, Ester Muñoz. And a symbolic incorporation: Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo will be a member of the National Executive Committee as part of Feijóo’s direct quota, without vote. A personal election of the president who has received one of the greatest ovations of the day in the plenary.
As if he knew what his boss of ranks was going to say, a few minutes before him, Tellado already made his promise: “We are not going to fail you. We missed four seats to make you president. It will not be repeated.” The Galician leader has a single mission: take Feijóo to the Moncloa. And the skin is going to be left, and whatever it takes, to achieve it.
Mazón, redeemed
On Saturday, references to what happened, at the same time, in Madrid’s street of Ferraz. “In the PP we respect women, they can’t say that today in the PSOE,” Tellado said. “We do not accept feminism lessons, nor a single ever,” he added, while haranging the hosts gathered in Pavilion 10 of Ifema glossing to women that the PP brought to the front row of politics, from Esperanza Aguirre to Loyola de Palacio, passing through Rita Barberá.
Feijóo has also made public the list of members of the Executive Committee, an intermediate body that brings together the National Directorate and the Autonomous Barons. A relevant list because any general secretary who wants to designate Feijóo now or in the future must be a member of this body, which brings together the national direction with the regional barons once a month.
That is why in the list of the XXI National Congress Miguel Tellado, next secretary general. But Feijóo has introduced other members of his direction, such as Ester Muñoz (the new spokesman) Elías Bendodo, Juan Bravo, Cuca Gamarra and Carmen Fúnez. Unlike 2022, the list provided by the PP does not include territorial references: it is not indicated from which autonomous community each is.
Feijóo has made substantial changes in 2025 on the list of 35 that presented in 2022. The general secretary of the PPCV and right hand of Carlos Mazón, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the spokesman in the City Council of Barcelona, Daniel Siera, or Sergio Sayas, the former UPN Transfuga Traffic that maneuvered to knock the labor reform, enter. Also the current Minister of the Andalusian Presidency, Antonio Sanz, or the vice president of Castilla y León, Isabel Blanco.
There are also notable departures from the list, such as Senator José Manuel Baltar, convicted of leading more than 200 kilometers per hour, former Minister José Manuel García-Margallo or the former president of the Ana Pastor Congress. Also the Galician president, Alfonso Rueda.
Mazón has been one of the protagonists of Congress just having arrived politically politically. The Valencian president has taken a mass bath.
Source: www.eldiario.es
