Fernández reaches an agreement with Feijóo and alliances with Junts will not be explicitly vetoed.

MadridAlberto Núñez Feijóo is preparing the ground to become prime minister, not only by surrounding himself with a new team but also by outlining a policy of pacts that will allow him to reach the Moncloa Palace. After back and forth on this issue, he wants to leave the door open after this weekend's congress to future understandings with other parties, such as Junts, whom he has been asking for several days whether it would really be in his best interest to negotiate with Pedro Sánchez. He has given in. This Thursday, he announced via X that he has reached an agreement with the team drafting the report: no pact will be explicitly vetoed, not even with Junts, but he does make it clear that any understanding must be governed by the defense of the Constitution, with a little pact with which Fernández intends to "subvert the constitutional order." Now, however, he has agreed that it should be written as follows: that the PP's pact policy should be framed within "the defense of the State, the nation and the constitutional order" as "non-negotiable objectives." In this way, Feijóo ensures that they do not directly relate to the pacts: the PP wanted to avoid internal disagreements over the weekend, since his idea is to project a strong party compared to the PSOE, which has its federal committee to deal with the Cerdán case. For his part, the leader of the Catalan PP was satisfied although he had to give in in the negotiation with the total veto," he said.

Approach to Junts

This week, Feijóo expressed his openness to negotiating with Junts, despite the opposition of Madrid's president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who, like Fernández, represents the hardline camp. "I have never lied to Mr. Puigdemont. It's unconstitutional, and I stand by it," Feijóo said Wednesday in an interview on Antena 3.. Ester Muñoz, who will become the spokesperson in Congress starting next week, insisted this Thursday. Muñoz again asked Junts if they "want to continue in the hands of a liar" and opened the door to dialogue "always within the Constitution." "What's important is not what, but what," argued the current deputy secretary of the Popular Party, who expressed a willingness to agree on "improvements" for citizens with all the parties that agree, with the exception of EH Bildu.

In recent months, the PP and Junts have already agreed on several votes in the lower house—mainly to defeat left-leaning initiatives of the Spanish government or as a wake-up call—but Feijóo's relationship with the junts faces a major stumbling block. The pro-independence party responded to the PP's attempt to establish contact within the framework of the round of talks with the investiture partners. to explore whether they maintained support for the PSOE after the outbreak of the Santos Cerdán case with a demand that the Popular Party rejects. For Junts, it is essential that Feijóo agree to meet with Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo. A gesture that not even Sánchez has yet made. The PP, on the other hand, expresses its willingness to speak with Míriam Nogueras, spokesperson in Congress.

Another party of the plurinational majority with which it could find more ideological common ground on economic matters is the PNV, but the relationship between the PP and the Basque nationalists has been very frayed for months. The Popular Party's attempt to link them to the Cerdán case, moreover, has so far blown up any bridges.

Tellado concentrates all the power.

On the other hand, it also emerged this Thursday that Miguel Tellado, the new general secretary of the party, will exercise "sole command in the management of internal affairs" of the PP, since in addition to being Feijóo's number two, he will also take over the area of organization, which until now was held by Carmen Fúnez. The La Mancha native will become deputy secretary of health and social policy. Over the last few days, Feijóo has been announcing little by little who will be part of the new popular leadership starting next weekOther names confirmed include Madrid MEP Alma Ezcurra, who coordinated the drafting of the political report and will be the new deputy secretary for sectoral coordination, and Jaime de los Santos, also from Madrid and a member of Congress, who will be deputy secretary for education and equality.