Twenty-four hours after Alberto Núñez Feijóo stated at the PP congress that his preference is a solo government open to agreements with everyone except Bildu, the party's new secretary general, Miguel Tellado, sought to elevate what was merely a wish into a firm electoral commitment not to share a government with the far right. "There will be no coalition government," he said in a conversation with reporters. The fact that this commitment was made the day after the congress and not during the conclave, as would have been logical, and that Tellado did not want to verbalize it on camera, undermines the credibility of the announcement. What's worse, it demonstrates that the PP still has no clear position on the matter. So much so that the new PP spokesperson, Esther Muñoz, had not ruled out, shortly before Tellado's remarks, the possibility of Santiago Abascal eventually becoming Feijóo's vice president. "We'll have to wait and see the numbers," she had said.

The PP has made an effort to project an image of unity at its congress around its leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but a careful reading of the speeches revealed that this unity is more fictitious than real. What has simply happened is that the hardline wing of the party, represented by José María Aznar and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has agreed to a truce with Feijóo so that he can exhaust his last chance of reaching the Moncloa. But between Aznar's speech on Friday, in which he insinuated that Pedro Sánchez should end up in prison, and Feijóo's this Sunday, in which he refuses to reach agreements with anyone except Bildu, there is a world of difference. The two souls of the PP remain, therefore, intact.

Readers with a better memory will surely remember the campaign launched on the Change.org platform to request The release "for humanitarian reasons" of former President of the Valencian Generalitat Eduardo ZaplanaWhat you may have forgotten is who the PP member who promoted it was. José Luis Bayo (Valencia, 1982), who has been in the news these days after announcing his intention to challenge the Galician Alberto Núñez Feijóo for the party's presidency.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided to advance the party congress this JulyA congress that aims to be the electoral and ideological rearmament to unseat Pedro Sánchez from the presidency of the Spanish government, but which has also raised thorny issues affecting the party. To begin with, internal democracy: the Popular Party leader wants to eliminate the method of electing the party's state president through primaries, which will also affect the system at levels such as the regional level—the state system links the autonomous regions, which have the same model. How could this change affect Alejandro Fernández's leadership in Catalonia? He must fear for his position, considering that the Catalan leader has become one of the main critical voices With Feijóo?

In politics, time and calendar control are especially important. That's why it seems strange that PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has decided to bring forward the party's ordinary congress to July, just at a time when Pedro Sánchez's government is under pressure and beginning to show signs of wear and tear following the blackout and internal tensions with its members. Feijóo's excuse is that he wants to be prepared in case there's an early election after the summer, but the reality is that the PP now faces a three-month period in which the spotlight will be on them and not on Sánchez's executive, which greeted the news with undisguised satisfaction.