The PP has activated the pre-election mode with the focus placed on a utilitarian coalition with Citizens, under the brand Spain Suma. But as the constitutional term that leads to the repetition of elections is running out and as the distance between PSOE and Podemos is verified, the 'popular' intensify their strategy for the "recast" of the center right. That is why now Genoa does not rule out including Vox in that hypothetical electoral coalition of the center right.

This has been ratified by the deputy secretary general of the Organization of the 'popular', Ana Beltrán, when they have asked him in Onda Cero about the possible entry of radical right formation in the new trademark registered by his party: "We would include all parties that are clear that the priority is the unity of Spain, the reduction of taxes and many other measures that the center right shares. All parties that have that vision could participate within Spain Suma, so that votes are not lost after the disintegration of the center right ".

Two weeks ago, EL MUNDO announced that, although the PP did not rule out Vox, it still did not invite it to join the project. And he did it with the right-wing regionalists with whom he believes he can build an entente to unload on the left: UPN, Asturias Forum, Canary Coalition, the Balearic Islands PI-Proposta per les Illes, Por Ávila, Platform for the Soriano People and Union of the Leonés People.

Beltrán - which is number three of the PP after the departure of Javier Maroto to the Senate - has explained that the premise for Navarra Suma -germen of Spain Suma- was that "in exceptional circumstances, exceptional measures had to be taken." And the country, according to the 'number three' of the PP, "right now also has an exceptional situation, with an independence challenge in Catalonia and the interest of the Basque Country nationalism and its interests to annex Navarre." "Together we are more to face these challenges" and "I have no doubt at all that Cs will prioritize the general interest of Spain over other partisan interests," he emphasized.

But Citizens continues to reject the pact strongly. Sources of the formation chaired by Albert Rivera ensure that it has not yet been raised in the governing bodies of the party, even for Catalonia or the Basque Country. "In any case, Cs works to present itself with its political project and under its acronym," they say.

Vox spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, said that Spain Suma "makes perfect sense" as a coalition between the PP and Citizens, but it is "unlikely" that his party would join.

Ana Beltrán believes that Pedro Sánchez is looking for new elections, that is why he insists that the right-wing center come together to "win the left" ahead of other partisan interests. "In Andalusia or Madrid we have reached programmatic agreements with Cs and Vox," and repeating them in the form of a coalition would serve to "add up."

We must remember that the vice secretary of Social Policy of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, said last week that the possibility of joining Vox is open: "It is a constitutionalist party and I do not see that it is not part of this proposal, it is open to constitutionalist parties to deal with fragmentation. "

Before them, the spokeswoman in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, said that the entry of Vox in the confluence would depend "on what policies it defends", but then explained to this newspaper that she had not stopped discarding it in any case and that those of Abascal seem Spanish "nationalists."

The Spain Suma coalition even likes the president of Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who yesterday insisted he has "all the seriousness" and he hopes "to succeed." In his opinion, "it is something more serious" than the "Game of Thrones" that is taking place between Podemos, the PSOE and the independence parties. But, yes, he insisted that in his land "Galicia is not necessary" because there is a party that "already adds to the vast majority of Galicians." Consciously or not, with that phrase Feijóo gave an argument to Citizens not to accept the Catalonia Suma coalition.

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