The act of unity that staged yesterday in Orense the Popular Party is more than evident evidence that the right center knows what is played in the next Galician elections on April 5. Feijóo, Casado and Rajoy participated together as speakers for the first time in a mass rally - organized to commemorate the 11 years of the first absolute majority of Feijóo in Galicia - and the three agreed on the need to concentrate the forces around the acronyms that for almost 30 years they have dominated the autonomous politics. And also, in reinforcing the idea that liberal proposals in the communities where the right center governs are the only alternative to sanchismo , a government with intentions to refound a new constitutional order by submitting to an independence that stands firm in its proposal unilateral and rupturist, as Puigdemont recalled on Saturday in Perpignan .

Although the polls suggest that the PP will revalidate its absolute majority - it currently has 41 seats out of the 39 necessary to govern alone -, it is impossible to completely frighten the spectrum of those elections that Fraga lost in 2005 by a handful of votes and which led to a PSOE government with the radical nationalists of the BNG . It is true that a fraga already tired after 16 years in power was added the wear of the PP by the accident of the Prestige and the terrorist attack of 11-M. But also, that is the first time that Feijóo attends elections in which Vox on the right and Cs in the center can make him lose some seats of his tight majority. In that sense we must interpret the words of Rajoy when he said that "the right center can and should govern alone, as until today" and that "it is not good here or anywhere that extremists, whoever they are, are in the governments or conditioning them. " For the center, although the orange party has decided to present solo lists (unlike what it will do in the Basque Country), its presence in Galician politics is residual .

Therefore, it is necessary that not only the PP becomes aware of what is at stake in Galicia. Vox and Cs must also act responsibly. If the right center lost the Xunta, the community could fall into a confederal drift similar to the one carried by the Basque Country and Catalonia , where a government hostage to the independentistas and the pro-ETA-Bildu prodigies is willing to go beyond what set the Constitution. If it was already difficult to redirect the policies that PSOE and BNG carried out in the 2005-2009 period, in this case the Galician socialists and nationalists would have the support of Podemos and their tides.

Successful, therefore, Married in its policy of rapprochement and collaboration with Citizens . It is not the hegemony in the right center that is at stake, but to avoid the autonomous contagion of sanchismo .

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