BarcelonaSince 2018, the PP has been criticizing Pedro Sánchez's inconsistency in governing thanks to spurious pacts with all kinds of parties. This weekend's congress should have been the great opportunity to demonstrate that they do not and will not do what they criticize, but the composition of the bodies already announced by Núñez Feijóo and expanded and corroborated during the congress suggests that, depending on how the wind blows based on the election results, they could imitate Sánch's strategy if necessary.
On the one hand, Feijóo is said to have managed to shoot down Alejandro Fernández's proposal to prohibit any pact with the pro-independence parties; softening it now, he says that they will be possible as long as the agreements are within the constitutional framework (of course, not even the PSOE would have said otherwise!), an expression as ambiguous as Sánchez's general interest in opposing the BBVA takeover bid. However, at the same time, people such as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo are included in the executive, a profile that would not be seen as bad in the ranks of Vox, or Daniel Sirera, who after being ousted from the congress Since 2008, the Catalan leader has been a key player in municipal politics, reaching an agreement with the Socialist party's Collboni with the sole objective. All within the constitutional framework, of course.
Feijóo, who has been toughening his rhetoric in his fight with Vox and Ayuso, has his main problem precisely on this front. Because in the face of the PSOE corruption cases, and despite the party having paid and politically purged past cases, citizens are increasingly convinced of the evils of the two-party system, and although these parties can offer formulas that in many cases seem more simplistic than applicable, the truth is that it increasingly seems like Vox's time, disappointed because its participation in power has been either nonexistent or barely perceptible. The fact is that the PP aspires to an absolute majority (impossible) or a relative majority so significant at a general level that it would allow them to dispense with what Vox seems to be aiming for this time, and that is to participate decisively in governmental power. The current version hooligan Miguel Tellado and his disciple, Esther Muñoz, are a message in this sense, but if the time comes, they can always try pacts with Junts or the PNV and change their minds, as Pedro Sánchez has done. The only problem is that precisely this change has been considered a lie by the PP. Because it is.
Contradiction after contradiction, Feijóo warns Junts that they will not be like the Socialists, because if they make them a promise, they will not deceive them as the PSOE did with the amnesty law, since they promised to return the politicians home but Puigdemont is still in Waterloo. And we don't know what lies behind this warning or commitment: if they wouldn't pass the amnesty law, what form is this of trying to convince them? But if what they say is that with their amnesty law, Puigdemont would already be home, what is the reason for criticizing Pedro Sánchez for trying?
Toni Nadal's message
That's why I think the best thing about the PP congress was Toni Nadal's participation. Invited to give a lecture on resilience and the capacity for sacrifice, the man who was Rafa Nadal's coach for years, a huge star in world tennis, criticized in our country for being a declared Spanish nationalist, monarchist, and Madrid supporter, turns out to tell them to their faces that it's enough with playing politics with language, that they should stop saying that Mallorcan is its own language, and that Mallorcan is its own language and public (much more, by the way, than the republican Twitter experts they have already surpassed in Madrid in the promised eighteen months), is Catalan.
With Toni Nadal as a metaphor, and taking into account the experience of 2023, the fact that young voters are not with them (nor with the PSOE) and the baraka from Pedro Sánchez to survive his moral degradation, I think the only thing the PP can expect in 2027, or perhaps before, is the same old thing: not to win, but for the other to fall.
