The unity of the PP in the face of instability and mistrust

The presence of the former

presidents of the Government,

and

, covering the candidate for the same position, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, together in an act, is by far

before the proximity of the electoral period.

The photo of the unity of Valencia, unusual in the PP in the last decade, is a very powerful message from a party that is running in the next elections as a guarantor of stability.

ity in front of

against the permanent scuffles of the political class on internal issues that have nothing to do with the true general interest.

It has taken 11 years for Aznar and Rajoy to exhibit this seal of unity in a political act.

The circumstances more than justify this truce, which leaves out the analyzes -sometimes openly opposed- that both leaders slide about the course that would most favor the party.

But now the forcefulness of the polls, the tension that prevails in the coalition government -permanently in conflict, now by the

- and the widespread perception of a loss of democratic quality

.

One reason more than enough to stage the internal union with the roundness of this weekend in Valencia.

Núñez Feijóo appears with all the options, leader of a strong party that has overcome internal crises and attempts at polarization.

The photo of the three leaders together -especially the presence of Aznar, the protagonist of the modernization of the PP with his trip to the center in the 90s- is intended to be in itself the great slogan of the campaign:

taking over the institutions and legislating based on the concessions demanded by their partners and their own ideological prejudices.

The numbers give the reason to the

at the start of 2023. The Sigma Two Panel for EL MUNDO that we publish today indicates that

, which increases the gap with the PSOE and, perhaps the most relevant aspect of this survey, that the transfer of voters from the PSOE to the PP worsens: 11.3% (767,000 people) of voters for Sánchez in 2019 are no longer part from the group of the undecided, having opted for Feijóo.

Does this mean that

, by which he established an insurmountable line between voters who would always be left-wing and those others who would always support right-wing formations.

The majority of Spaniards give plenty of symptoms of being tired of sterile populisms and

: the democratic, the institutional and the economic.

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