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The PP will not give governance to the PSOE in exchange for anything, in any case. But there is concern within the party because Pablo Casado does not do enough to avoid a coalition executive between the Socialists and United We can based on a program of tax increases and supported by the votes of independentistas, nationalists and regionalists, with their corresponding counterparts

There are divergent positions between some of the "moderate" territorial leaders and those closest to Casado. At the center of the internal debate, the leadership of Genoa is displaying a double strategic message. The official speech, from outside doors, says that "the ball is on the roof of Pedro Sánchez" and "only the PSOE can stop" the Frankenstein pact . This was said yesterday by Cuca Gamarra , deputy secretary of Social Policy.

The strategic discourse, from the inside out, has a different nuance, as EL MUNDO has been able to know: if Sanchez answers Pablo Casado's call, there would be dialogue. This is admitted privately by national leaders. A dialogue that would begin with the demand that the socialist leader break his pre-agreement with United We Can. That is the strategy. "But the strategies are not counted, they are executed," they say in Genoa. The sources of the national management consulted agree that if Casado has not moved in public from his refusal to the PSOE, it was precisely because of the passivity of the president of the acting Government.

"He hasn't even picked up the phone," says a popular leader. «To start, to pick up the phone», they encourage in Genoa, aware that the alternative to this lack of dialogue is an Executive who raises taxes, repeals labor reform and can give counterparts to the independence workers in exchange for their votes, things that do not like in the PP.

For the PP of Galicia and Castilla y León, Casado must move if Sánchez calls him

In this situation, some of the main territorial barons of the PP clearly bet on the "patriotic" route as a lesser evil after the election results. This is the case of Alberto Núñez Feijóo (president of the Xunta de Galicia ) and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (president of the Junta de Castilla y León ). The first has asked that the PSOE stop Sanchez's feet, since then the PP would have "open doors to talk." The second asked yesterday "to move Sanchez file" and "look for the good of Spain", since it will be at that time "when you will find the PP" for a possible pact.

Sources close to Feijóo say that "what Sanchez has to do is break up with Podemos and call Casado." "Let him call and we'll talk," they add. In Juanma Moreno's environment, they affirm that “it would be a mistake to open the debate on abstention on the eve of an ERE ruling; that would be rushing ». And sources close to Mañueco believe that Casado "must take the initiative ... if Sanchez calls him."

At this point they coincide in the request made by the party's address. But why does Genoa ask Sánchez to call Casado as the first step in the hypothetical thaw? Because last Sunday night the president of the PP called the winner of the elections, and could not contact him. The secretary general of the PSOE neither picked up the phone nor returned the call. The next day, Sanchez acknowledged receipt of the call, again without returning it, and summoned the president of the PP to a dialogue to determine: "We'll talk," he wrote on WhatsApp, according to the popular .

Rajoy calls for a government of balance without "nationalism" or "extreme left"

That was the first proof that Sanchez does not want to explore a "patriotic" pact, they say in Genoa. The second, the pre-agreement with United We Can; and the third, the round of contacts that the spokeswoman of the Socialist Group has opened in the Congress of Deputies, Adriana Lastra, with the formations with which the investiture could be carried out.

Without a movement of Sanchez there will be no - there can be no - rapprochement between the Socialists and the PP, they say in Genoa. The popular are willing to open the path of "patriotic" negotiation if the leader of the PSOE breaks with United We, as this newspaper advanced yesterday. And for this they believe that they must take a previous step: dialogue with the main opposition party. At least, to maintain the minimum courtesy between the two major parties. And to reopen the door that the vice president Carmen Calvo closed when she proclaimed on Monday, November 11, that "with Casado no."

It is something that the last former president of the popular government did not like. In an event held in Mexico , Mariano Rajoy opted for "moderation, balance and good sense" to form a government without the "extreme left" or the "nationalists."

The spokeswoman of the PP in the Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, has been more forceful, since she has asked for a Government of concentration of PSOE, PP and Citizens.

The official position of the PP was announced yesterday by the vice secretary of communication of the party. Pablo Montesinos criticized that Sánchez has chosen «the radical way, the worst for Spain», with Podemos and ERC; and said that his training will exercise "firm opposition." "We work on facts and not hypotheses," he said, asked about the possibility of "patriotic abstention." And it affected the socialist leader that "he has not called the head of the opposition, but he has hugged Iglesias and is courting ERC."

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