The 'barons' of the PP close ranks with Feijóo at a lunch in 'Génova' and support his decision not to "save" Sánchez

Feijóo mobilizes the PP this January and sets a 'retreat' in Toledo from Thursday to Saturday and an Interparliamentary in Orense next week

MADRID, 9 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The regional presidents of the PP have agreed this Tuesday in closing ranks with the leader of their party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in their strategy of not "saving" Pedro Sánchez in the face of the parliamentary "weakness" of the PSOE and Sumar Government, which faces this same Wednesday its first litmus test with the vote in Congress of three decrees that the Council of Ministers approved in December.

This support has been seen both in the Executive Committee of the PP and in the relaxed subsequent lunch that Feijóo held with almost all of his territorial 'barons' at the party's national headquarters. Among those absent from both appointments, due to agenda reasons, were the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, the president of Extremadura, María Guardiola, and the president of La Rioja, Gonzalo Capellán.

Before the National Executive Committee, the leaders of the PP in the CCAA of Andalusia, Aragon, Murcia, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha have already branded as "swallowing" the request that the PSOE has made to the 'popular' to allow carry out the three decrees that will be voted on tomorrow in Congress. When asked by journalists, they defended not saving Sánchez because, as they recalled, he was already warned that his partners "were not trustworthy."

"There is unanimity among the barons in the strategy of supporting the Government. People want us to support Sánchez," one of the PP presidents later summarized privately at the end of the meal.

Feijóo himself has expressed to the PP leadership his opposition to becoming "a lifeguard for a president of the Government who intervened of his own will." Furthermore, he has stressed that he will not accept "demanding support for the first party in Spain based on insults, blackmail and contempt" for the Popular Party.

"I will not come to Sánchez's rescue, but I will be there every week to help the majority of Spaniards in their problems, in their needs and in the defense of their interests," said Feijóo, garnering strong applause from his people.

After Junts' refusal to support these three decrees (on anti-crisis measures, digitalization of Justice and reconciliation of family and professional life), the Government has also turned to the PP to try to save those votes in Congress this Wednesday. However, the 'popular' have conveyed their "no", complaining about having been previously ignored.

The electoral events of this first semester (elections in Galicia, the Basque Country and European elections) have also focused a good part of the 'barons' conversations with Feijóo, who has called for "working" to revalidate the government of the Xunta, be "decisive" in Euskadi and win the European Championships on June 9.

"We have a historical responsibility and the PP and the CCAA that we govern must team up," one of the people present at that meal told Europa Press which, according to what he said, has served for the presidents to express their "absolute support" for Feijóo.

The open crisis with plastic pellets in the middle of the Galician pre-campaign has "incidentally" crept into the lunch, as revealed by one of the attendees, who is already warning the left that this matter could turn against them if tries to "get a piece of it."

This Tuesday, the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, announced that the anti-pollution plan (Camgal) will be increased to situation 2 because the central government "demands that requirement" to work at sea to contain the dumping of pellets. ' of plastic. Asturias and Cantabria have also decreed emergency level 2 due to the pellet tide.

With an eye on the upcoming electoral events and with the aim of deploying an intense mark on the Government of Pedro Sánchez, Feijóo has set an intense work agenda for the PP in the coming weeks.

For now, from Thursday to Saturday a kind of 'retreat' will be held with the members of the PP steering committee to prepare the priorities of the new political course. These "work days" in a "calm" atmosphere will take place in Toledo, where both Feijóo and the rest of the PP leadership plan to spend the night.

This Sunday there will also be a Rueda event with the presidents of the PP in A Coruña under the title 'Building Spain from the CCAA', according to sources from the party. The attendance of the president of the PP is not planned so as not to overshadow Rueda and give him maximum prominence as a candidate.

Feijóo will indeed be in Galicia the following weekend, since he has called a meeting of the Interparliamentary of the PP in Orense on January 20 and 21, which will be attended by deputies and senators of the party from all over Spain to coordinate parliamentary initiatives.

This Interparliamentary of the PP will coincide in time with the political conference of the PSOE, which will have the highest level since the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will participate. In the midst of the electoral pre-campaign, the event will serve as a platform for Sánchez to once again support the socialist candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.