The re-election this weekend almost unanimously of

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

as leader of the Popular Party in Galicia, for the fifth time in a row, became an

exhibition of unity

of the party at the national level, with the presence of all the regional leaders with responsibilities. of government.

Feijóo recalled that the diversity of the party is compatible with its unity, because, he said, "we are all the PP of Spain."

Feijóo, who has governed since 2009 with an absolute majority in Galicia - a success

unheard of in the current and fragmented political context - has received the support, among others, of the Madrid president

Isabel Diaz Ayuso

, that the last elections in May showed that the PP can concentrate the vote of the center-right around its initials, as is the case in Galicia and Madrid.

This is the reason why Feijóo and Ayuso have become the

indisputable references of Pablo Casado

, aware of the need to recover the voters who have gone to Ciudadanos and Vox and make the PP the party that is in a position to deputize the parliamentary majority to the

PSOE and its heterogeneous collection of partners

, which ranges from the extreme left to the Catalan independentists and the heirs of ETA terrorism.

It is encouraging that at the 17th regional congress of the Galician PP, which was held this weekend, with an eye to the next municipal elections, the

popular

they will stage the unit around their liberal ideology and "a moderate and centered common project"

, as remarked by its secretary general

Teodoro Garcia Egea

.

The presence of the barons in the congress reinforces the coherence of a unitary discourse throughout Spain, in contrast to the ideological federalization of the PSOE, where its regional leaders maintain discrepancies on essential issues that affect us all, such as the recipes to overcome the crisis economic, political strategy in the face of the independence challenge -including pardons-, regional financing "à la carte", or the management of the pandemic.

It is quite likely that Sánchez will not call elections for another two years, a time in which the center-right must r

recover the lost unit and work together to dispute the majority with the PSOE.

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