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The relief of Alberto Núñez Feijóo continues to take shape. It is expected that the extraordinary congress from which his successor will emerge, who will be Alfonso Rueda, will be held before the end of May. The board of directors that will convene it is scheduled for next Monday, at a hotel in Santiago, at 17.30:XNUMX p.m. Everything was put on track in meetings at the highest level, concentrated last week between Feijóo and his barons, on the one hand, and between Calvo and Rueda. With an agreement in principle for a unit list headed by the "predictable" successor, the one who always headed all the pools.
As part of that agreement, the Coruña president has on the table an offer from his colleague from Pontevedra to enter the Xunta government.
At the moment, the specific position has not been closed. However, there are still "fringes" to close, small print that does not condition support for Rueda but must be qualified. That is: in the process of internal reconfiguration, it remains to be resolved what role —from loyalty and the will to be part of the solution— La Coruña and Lugo will have in the rebalancing of powers in the PPdeG, Xunta and Parliament.
This Wednesday Feijóo resumed his institutional agenda with an act in Porto do Son in which he will publicly announce that "an extraordinary congress will be convened in the next few days", from which the new president of the PPdeG will emerge - who will also be president of the regional government - , by virtue of an "agreement (...) signed by all", after the dialogue held with the provincial barons. The statutes of the PP contemplate that at least 30 days elapse from the call by the board of directors of the PPdeG. Given that Isabel Díaz Ayuso will be anointed at the head of the party in Madrid on May 20 and 21, a gap that seems ideal and for which there is margin is that of the following week, so that in the same month the double relay, although Feijóo himself already anticipated yesterday that it is "very likely" that the Xunta will take place before the match. The difference, in any case, would be weeks.
Manuel Baltar's words on Tuesday, positioning himself in favor of Rueda, unleashed a torrent of headlines, but the fact that Feijóo's succession had remained on track days ago. What the baron from Ourense did was make it visible that the changeover was resolved. In case there could be the slightest bit of doubt, this Wednesday Calvo transferred his "support to a possible list of consensus and unity headed by Alfonso Rueda." "He is the ideal person to assume the presidency of the Xunta and the party", he added. "As soon as he takes the step, he can count on the support and collaboration from La Coruña." Elena Candia from Lugo was not going to be less. “If you decide to take the step, I will be on your side and will also vote for you in the investiture session when the time comes,” she announced.
Feijóo, for his part, was more Feijóo than ever before the media and avoided any personalization. “There are numbers that are discussed, that are speculated, that are advertised. Rest assured that if numbers are discussed, speculated and spread, it will be because peers are talking about these numbers,” he said in the classic cryptic record of him. He once again hid behind the fact that he no longer presides over the PPdeG and that “that no longer depends on me”, but rather “it is up to the provincial presidents to pronounce themselves”; he is no longer "the right person" to anticipate appointments, to insist. "On the eve of convening an extraordinary congress, let the party's democratic machinery work," he settled.
In all cases, he knew how, he pointed out Rueda's direction, the same as the one he already pointed to weeks ago when he advanced the predictability of his replacement. “Is there unity in the party? I perceive that yes, ”he X-rayed this Wednesday. “There is the objective of continuing with a project that has four consecutive absolute majorities and the objective of achieving a fifth absolute majority. For that, it is known that the basic ingredients are the unity of the party and the illusion to continue achieving institutional and political stability”. And nobody supposed the continuity of the project Who has accompanied Feijóo since his arrival at the Xunta in 2009 and is his number two.
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With his succession on track, Feijóo ratified that the “objective” is to “combine the celebration of the congress and the new presidency of the autonomous community”, reluctant to “stop the machinery of government” before the conclave takes place. “Understanding that the two can be solved in parallel so that, in May, all the people are in their positions and we have a new partner president of the [Galician] government and a new partner president of the party”, he reiterated. "If the two can coincide, much better," he added.
With the new Porto do Son maritime façade as a backdrop —and a few meters from the PSdeG headquarters, which displayed a “for rent” sign—, he took the opportunity to leave several messages in an internal code. "The PP is a united party (...), this party is enormously strong, and it will continue to be enormously strong." "The objective of the party at this time is beyond the year 24, it is preparing the elections of 24 and following to continue sending a message of unity." From the congress, he limited, "a united team will come out."
Along the same lines, he denied the internal tensions at the time of fitting in sur levo that the opposition denounces: “We talk, we do not discuss. We talk, we don't confront each other. (...). I already said we were going to talk." Some conversations that have placed Rueda on the threshold of the presidency.
The opposition considered the undemocratic relay and a "false closure"
As expected, the latest developments surrounding Feijóo's succession have been greeted with a salvo of criticism from the opposition. Both PSdeG and BNG censored the forms this Wednesday and saw in the pact around Rueda a distribution of power between the provincial barons that does not meet the standards of the Galician left.
Thus, the general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, assured that the PPdeG gives a bad image to the Spanish restaurant. "Four provincial barons (...) sitting at a stretcher table, deciding who is going to be the one who governs Galician destinies for the next two years, in the XNUMXst century, I think it is not the majority of the images," he pointed out. The leader of the Galician PSOE, without the slightest hesitation when entering to assess an organic process in a party other than his own, stressed that there were "other procedures", in his opinion, "more democratic", which would give voice to the "militancy". In short, he insisted on affirming that “the internal situation of the president of the Xunta is resolved as soon as possible”.
From the Bloc, Luis Bará, in the absence of Ana Pontón, was in charge of downplaying the agreement within the PPdeG for Feijóo's succession, and spoke of a "temporary cessation of hostilities" and a "false start". In line with Formoso, he appreciated an "open struggle for power" and "a distribution (...) between the baronies" as the backdrop for "all this mess of weeks" to "reach an accommodation of all parties". "The PP, at the moment, is a boiling cauldron, a pressure cooker," he added, to predict that before the regional congress there will be "authentic pitched battles" at the local level. For Bará, Galicia is suffering from "misgovernment" in the midst of a "period of decadence and decline" in the Xunta, an "exhausted and failed project," he said. An “end of cycle”.
