The disarray and the struggle continue within the Catalan People's Party (PP), despite attempts to reverse it, at least in appearance. The party attempted to return to normality after the parliamentary elections of 12-M, in which quintupled the results until catapulting itself into the fourth largest party with fifteen deputies, alongside Alejandro Fernández as its candidate. Since the beginning of Salvador Illa's presidency, it has sought to establish itself as the alternative and has revived practices that are part of the daily routine of all parties, such as Monday press conferences—abandoned since the pandemic until this term—but with very limited normality, especially because the internal battle continues. It is not only the fact that the leadership is expired for more than three years –the Catalan congress should have been held in 2022 and it is not planned thatthat will be done until Alberto Núñez Feijóo can become Spanish president - but the management committee has not met since Isla became president and goes back much further than a year ago, according to what ARA has learned from several sources.

The Catalan People's Party (PP) has not presented any amendments or stated a position on the proposals and their possible changes at the party's state congress. However, this was not the case for its leader, Alejandro Fernández: the top leader of the PP in the Principality has decided to amend Alberto Núñez Feijóo's course alone, without the approval of the rest of the Catalan leaders. This Wednesday, according to several sources consulted by ARA, no one else knew the content of the modification proposals he has presented when the deadline expires today. A stance that has generated unease among the leadership.

The former Catalan PP deputy Esperanza García (Barcelona, ​​​​1975) died this Thursday morning at just 50 years old, as reported to X by the Popular Party leader in the Principality, Alejandro Fernández, and the Andalusian Government itself, for whom she served as delegate in Catalonia. Her death was caused by cancer. Condolences from the front page of Catalan leaders of the party, but also from Ciutadans, where she began her political career.

The official status of Catalan in the European Union comes at a crucial time, as this Tuesday the member states will have to make a decision. But while the Spanish government is leading the way, an offensive to ensure that the objective is achieved, the PP is maneuvering in the opposite direction by contacting countries to ensure that official status fails. The PP itself confirmed this on Monday. The secretary general of the Catalan Popular Party, Santi Rodríguez, stated in a press conference that "if there are calls, it's because there are calls in the opposite direction" and that they are happening because "if someone acts in a political sense," as he believes the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, is doing, they should be able to respond. "Or is it that only some people can speak here and others can't speak and express their opinions?" he concluded.

In calling the PP congress in July, the party's leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, sent some messages in a Catalan key. men such as the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and the Extremaduran, María Guardiola, to draft the party's new statutes at the state level. Although this doesn't mean Sirera will be in the future leadership of the PP in Madrid, what does this appointment mean? How has it been interpreted in the PP of Catalonia?

The internal PP dispute in Figueres has all the ingredients of a full-blown conflict: a battle with the leadership after returning to the council, a corruption complaint filed with the courts that was dismissed, and, recently, a severe sanction against the rebel leader and only councilor, the previously Popular Party member Àngela Domènech. According to ARA, the party's state guarantees committee has suspended her from membership for five and a half years and barred her from holding office within the party or representing it for the same period. In a resolution dated April 8, the body at the headquarters on Génova Street in Madrid opted to "confirm in all its terms the resolution of the regional committee on rights and guarantees of Catalonia," which issued this same sanction on March 3, but which Domènech appealed.

"It's been a bombshell"; "there's anger and discontent." Alejandro Fernández's book, in which he resumes the war with the state PP commanded by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, It hasn't left anyone indifferent within the party. Sources within the conservative party explain that the more moderate sector, or those who simply align themselves with Feijóo, not only feels uncomfortable with the essay published this week, but also violated because it represents the reopening of wounds that never fully healed. And, of course, because it's a test of the leadership of the more hardline sector. In the book, Fernández criticizes Madrid's "tutelage" and the "shredder" of Catalan leadership. He, in fact, has been on the ropes on several occasions since becoming president of the PP in Catalonia in 2018.

In a political party, a war can be fought in several chapters, including truces and armistices. This is what happened with the battle between the leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alejandro Fernández, and the national PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which has now resurfaced with a book by the Catalan leader that went on sale this Wednesday. In underwear off (La Esfera de los Libros, 2025). The message is clear: stand up to Feijóo, demand an end to Madrid's "tutelage," and denounce a "human shredder of Catalan leaders." He even asserts that his closest circle has suffered a dirty war and cites two complaints of mistreatment and sexual assault involving close leaders: the case of Albert Fernández Saltiveri and Daniel Serrano's respectively.