The president of the Basque PP Alfonso Alonso will premiere this evening at the Palacio Europa his desired convention with a bittersweet taste . The conclave has allowed him, without a doubt, to recover political prominence in a course start conditioned by the failure of the political negotiation between Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias and also to activate his internal cadres in an intense year with the autonomic elections of 2020 as a priority for Alonso. But even until the eve of the convention , the leader of the Basque PP was able to verify that the direction of his party in Madrid aired his differences regarding the defense of forality or the relationship with the nationalists that allowed the Government to give some stability by Mariano Rayoy and Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría .

The touch of attention to the convention of the PP on the eve of the conclave departed from the spokeswoman in the Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo Congress. The deputy for Barcelona and member of the hard core of President Pablo Casado yesterday issued two warnings that make visible the doubts that have generated in the direction of the party both the convening of this convention of the Basque PP and the objective of Alonso to underline a «own profile» of his party in Euskadi when Casado is in the process of rebuilding the party in the whole of Spain. "If the profile itself is to say that the legitimacy of our constitutional system has reserved areas that refer to previous historical rights and not to the Constitution and common sovereignty, it would seem a serious mistake ," said the spokeswoman of the PP in Congress in an interview with EsRadio.

Álvarez de Toledo's warning is not a trivial matter and is at the center of the differences between Alonso and Genoa when agreeing on the strategy for the electoral recovery of the PPen Euskadi. The convention is, in fact, the showcase from which Alonso wants to show the Basques a match close to their concerns with the ground of the values ​​historically defended by their party in Euskadi. But, in addition, Alonso also advanced his teammates last Wednesday in San Sebastián who intends to tighten his public position with respect to a PNV that has refused to activate the reform proposals that he has proposed and that applied a cordon to the 'popular' in localities such as Laguardia and Labastida with the objective of suffocating the PP in Álava, depriving it of institutional representation. Alonso - who structures his speeches in notes and avoids reading them - closes the margin for the search for an agreement with the nationalists after verifying that the PNV is not even willing to move in the reduction of the IRPF that has claimed him to facilitate the budgets of 2020.

But no one from Euskadi should have warned Genoa about the hardening of Alonso's political message in his speech on Saturday and Alvarez de Toledo established a link between an alleged "lukewarm" position of the Basque PP with nationalism and its electoral collapse. «It was believed that with contemporization or warmer positions with nationalism a better result could be obtained. That operation has already failed, ”said the spokeswoman in the lower house in the hours before the conclave of the PP in Euskadi.

A hard analysis free of self-criticism accompanied by the recommendation that the strengthening of the PP in the Basque Country be articulated based on a "modern, moral and effective" project . The public analysis of the situation of the Basque PP by Álvarez de Toledo came after a week in which Genoa has demanded from Alonso the political presentation prepared by the Secretary General Amaya Fernández and the historian Esteban Goti in which, in theory , the keys of the "own profile" with which Alonso intends to relaunch its acronyms are collected.

The critical analysis of Álvarez de Toledo came, in addition, just hours after explicit support for the former leader of the PSE-EE and UPyD Rosa Díez with winks for an ipothetic return to Congress on the PP lists . The presence of Díez in the Congress provoked an ironic reaction of Alonso in the microphones of the Ser chain. "He is a very versatile personality," he replied when questioned by the hypothetical signing of Rosa Díez. "It seems phenomenal, to me the converts seem very good to me if they do not go beyond enthusiasm", finished the joke Alonso with a fine irony that enjoys enormous predicament among his supporters but that, as sometimes happens in the Basque Parliament, uncomfortable to his detractors. Perhaps a little more when Alonso reiterated at the national level an argument that is appreciated in the center-right voter in Euskadi.

«For us the issue of forality is very sensitive. It is absolutely capital and that, I suppose is an issue that is not important in Murcia, but for us that is decisive, ”said Alonso, perhaps not fully aware [or yes] of the origin of Teodoro García Egea, general secretary of the PP and ' strong man 'of Married.

As if that were not enough, Alonso has questioned in EL MUNDO that the decision to promote the Spain Suma platform at the regional level has internal support because it has not even been discussed in its internal organs. At least, in which he is a part.

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