That familiar aroma in 1995 in the PP's strategy

BarcelonaAlberto Núñez Feijóo is seeking to put his house in order before the final assault on Moncloa, but let's not fool ourselves, Congress is merely a domestic matter, a way to resolve all the internal crises that may arise between now and the elections and reach an understanding, albeit temporary, between the two on the one hand, and Juanma Moreno Bonilla on the other, with him positioned in the middle as a kind of forced synthesis. The congress is brought forwardHowever, for a reason. And that is that the PP believes it has already found the strategy that will inevitably lead it to the Moncloa, and therefore it is simply a matter of being prepared for when the moment arrives. And what is that strategy? Well, a not very original one: in the absence of an economic crisis, like the one triggered by Mariano Rajoy in 2011, the Aznarist script of 1994-1995 is now being opted for.

Those years saw what we could easily describe as a conspiracy by a group of highly influential journalists who coordinated with the PP to remove Felipe González from power by publishing, day in and day out, scandals affecting the socialist government. The conspirators were the regulars on Antonio Herrero's talk show on Cope, who would later meet to discuss a strategy: there were, of course, the usual suspects: Pedro J. Ramírez, Federico Jiménez Losanto, Luis María Ansón, Manuel Martín Ferrand, Jaime Capmany, Amando de Miguel, Pablo.

Ansón's confession

The operation came to light on February 23, 1998. The then director of theAbcLuis María Ansón acknowledged in an interview in the magazineTimeThat in this operation to eliminate Felipe González "the stability of the State was at stake." What was attempted, and what was achieved, was to create an unbreathable atmosphere, an end of an era, in which González was presented as an illegitimate president whose resignation was demanded by Aznar every week from Congress with his famous "Go away, Mr. Gonzalez.!"

The PP is now seeking to repeat that script, in collaboration with a "fascospheremuch tighter and more varied, but with the same flagships: the daily The World and the Cope network. The difference between one moment and another is that, just as the Roldán, GAL or Mariano Rubio cases were very real, the Begoña case or the publication of the WhatsApp Pedro Sánchez's relationship with José Luis Ábalos doesn't seem to have the same depth or destabilizing capacity. In any case, this is the only way Núñez Feijóo has found to reach the Moncloa Palace, even if it means "ruining the stability of the State." On Wednesday, Feijóo made this clear in Congress when he recycled Aznar's formula: "Please, leave and call elections," he told Sánchez, with that familiar aroma from 1995.