Alberto Núñez Feijóo recognizes for the first time that exist risk of losing the absolute majority in Galicia and look directly at Vox. In the PP they assure that Santiago Abascal’s party will not enter the Galician Parliament after the elections of February 18 because it is “impossible”, according to sources from the national leadership, for it to exceed the 5% of support established by law electoral in that community. But the votes brought together by the extreme right could harm the current president of the Xunta, Alfonso Ruedawho will not have anyone to join and needs to get the absolute victory by himself (38 seats).
For the first time, Feijóo, in an interview on ‘esRadio’, admitted the risks of Vox running in the Galician elections, identifying three problematic seats in Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. “If we lost the absolute majority by one seat and counted the votes that Vox has, with those votes not only would we not lose the majority but we would have three more seats, one remaining in Lugo, another in Ourense and another in Pontevedra,” stated the leader. conservative. Let them show up, he concluded, “it could lead to a drop of three seats in total and, therefore, a risky situation for the PP.”
He summed it up like this: “Does it make sense for Vox to appear in Galicia? No. And can it harm an absolute majority of the PP? In my opinion, yes”. Feijóo launches himself for the first time and unequivocally for the Vox voter with a parallel that he himself launched in the interview: the situation of the general elections may be repeated of 23J, that the PP wins but does not govern.
In Genoa they have quantified the provinces in which Vox votes did not translate into their own seats and, however, prevented adding a new one to the popular ones. “I asked Abascal not to appear in some provinces. I did not succeed. The PP thus lost seven seats that were the absolute majority. And that was a mistake, in my opinion, historic.“said Feijóo, blaming Vox for the failure.
The spokesperson in Congress and strong man of Feijóo, the Galician Miguel Tellado, already asked Vox weeks ago to consider not appearing in Galicia. The far-right party took this request very badly and made it clear that he would not give up being in any electoral call.
Relations on the right have been deteriorating for some time and yesterday there was a new demonstration in the plenary session of Congress, where Santiago Abascal called “blow to the Constitution” the agreement of the two major parties to modify article 49 so that people with disabilities stop being called “disabled”. All this despite the fact that Vox chose to abstain.
Later, in the hallways, there was a spontaneous greeting between Feijóo and Abascal. Several handshakes and gestures that were not just cordiality. Minutes before, the leader of Vox had harshly attacked the leader of the PP. And this Wednesday the Galician leader attacked his rival on the right: “A vote for Vox is for the independence movement to govern in Galicia”.