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  • Autonomous. The PP and Citizens are forced to negotiate expressly for the Basque and Galician elections

The first steps of the possible center-right coalition for the regional elections are being very rough. This Tuesday there was a complicated first meeting on Tuesday between Teodoro García Egea and José María Espejo-Saavedra in which there was no approach. To it are added on Wednesday a few words from the president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, totally closing the door to a coalition of the PP and Citizens in his community.

Núñez Feijóo has offered to include Citizen leaders in the list of the PP of Galicia. But it has completely ruled out the proposal of the spokeswoman for the orange formation, Inés Arrimadas, because that would "disappear" the popular in the autonomous community.

"If what is intended is to seek a notoriety or raise a party that is not at its best, or seek a discussion to emerge ... would be the opposite of what Cs is announcing," the Galician president has warned in a interview in the Cope Chain.

Feijóo has added that if Arrimadas wants to "stop nationalism" by acting "in good faith" the agreement may exist. "If we want to help each other, we will help each other," he said, but later made it clear that this cooperation will never go down to dilute the popular Galicians in a coalition when the PP is the hegemonic force of the center-right in that community.

"If the sum of 41 seats plus zero (those with the PP and Cs) means that we have to change or disappear as the acronym that proposal is not honest," he said to Arrimadas.

The PP of Galicia (PPdeG) has achieved three consecutive absolute majorities while Cs does not even reach 5% of the votes necessary to have representation in the Parliament of Galicia. That totally unequal situation is what leads Feijóo to reject the coalition, an approach that assumes the national leadership.

Therefore, the meeting between García Egea and Espejo did not go well on Tuesday. Pablo Casado only bets, in principle, to go by coalition in the Basque Country and Catalonia, because he believes that it is in these two communities where there is a problem of fragmentation of the constitutional right-wing center, which allows nationalists to be in power in both autonomies

However, Cs defends that the agreement must be three, for the three Autonomous Communities, "not only where it suits the PP". Therefore, Cs' statement on the meeting describes the formation position of Pablo Casado as "worrying." And he warns that the PP "can be folded to the thesis of putting acronyms and partisan interests above the interests of citizens."

From Cs they insist on advancing in a coalition in the three autonomous communities at the same time, because in all three there is a real risk that nationalists will come to power - in Galicia, at the hands of the PSOE. In the next few hours, the two parties will meet again to try to advance in those agreements that the PP calls Spain Suma - Basque Country Suma and Catalonia Suma - and Cs prefers to call Better United.

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