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The president of the PP, Pablo Casado, has eaten today with the former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy, in a restaurant near the national headquarters of the party. This is a significant meeting, on the day after the King found that Pedro Sánchez cannot be invested and the call for elections was confirmed.

According to popular sources, it is a meeting more than they usually have on a recurring basis, but the truth is that the meeting has a marked strategic component, for the moment in which it occurs, and for the change in Casado's strategy, towards a more Marianist approach to political times and the coming campaign.

The meeting of Casado and Rajoy, captured by the cameras of La Sexta, has an additional symbolism: the former president knows what it is to face an electoral repetition and rise strongly in the number of votes and seats, since of the 123 deputies of 2015 went to 137 in 2016, with a strategy focused on eroding citizens by the useful vote lane.

The new tactic of the opposition leader, less attached to the news of the last minute, is penetrating Genoa , which wants to deploy a "campaign in positive", recovering the "proactive tone" and less tense that gave Mariano such good results Rajoy

In the national direction of the PP they recognize that the "bisoñez" of Casado lastros to the party in the generals of April, reason why in this campaign they will bet to "appear less" and "to center more the shot of the speech". As the former president did, with another tone and another ideological profile.

Precisely, Pablo Casado's team has begun to meet today to define the new strategy and the changes to be undertaken with respect to the April campaign, which proved a failure.

The first idea that the popular have reached is that they should favor polarization. "At the polls it will be seen if citizens hold Sanchez responsible for what happened," said sources close to the leader of the opposition.

But they will do it without entering into "fray" with Citizens and Vox. Genoa wants to recover the useful vote that went to the orange formation with the hug of the bear of Spain Suma , a coalition that Albert Rivera denies but the electorate does not, in general terms.

In the case of Vox, in the PP they believe that it will maintain a floor superior to 15 deputies and that there will not be a transfer greater than the one already discounted by the surveys. That is why Casado will focus on recovering the deputies that Abascal made him lose in the 28 provinces of less than six seats, due to fragmentation.

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