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The relationship between Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the national leadership of the PP is good.
His closeness to Pablo Casado, of course.
So far, everything normal.
But these Madrid elections are exceptional and in the candidacy of the regional president they know it, hence more and more voices arise in their environment that defend and demand absolute autonomy, both at the time of the campaign and, above all, in the messages to be deployed to shore up that "sufficient majority" that the PP craves for the
pull of the regional leader and after the
collapse
demoscopic of his closest electoral opponent,
Citizens
."The
Ayuso brand
It is clear that it transcends Pablo Casado "in the elections of next May 4, sources of the Madrid PP candidacy point out." We are compensated by a more personalist campaign "than normal, and with more" autonomy ", they influence, to be able to agglutinate to the voters who went to
Vox
-that they are more suspicious of Pablo Casado for having broken with
Santiago Abascal
- and turn the 4-M into a presidential plebiscite. "We are in the day to day and we are going to mark the messages that interest us," they warn in the surroundings of Díaz Ayuso.
Although they acknowledge that
baroness
The PP is comfortable waging the national political battle, they insist that they want to control to the millimeter the stages of a campaign that seems crucial to decant the absolute majority towards one bloc or the other.
The arrival of Toni Cantó
What Díaz Ayuso does not want is a repeat of the tensions with Genoa that were produced by the electoral lists.
Genoa's announcement that
Toni Cantó
would occupy the
number five
of the candidacy, before Ayuso herself confirmed it, raised the spirits, although now it is considered overcome because it is assumed as the last interference. In the campaign team they take away iron: "They put a spoon in the lists, among other things because the national usually has an opinion on at least one third of the lists, and the regional one another third, more or less. That is tradition. "" From there, the campaign is designed and executed by the candidate, as is logical. " , they defend.
"There are 30 days left, and we need 47%" for the absolute majority (of the block or their own), they argue, to influence that there is a lot of fabric to cut and they want to follow their own script. In Ayuso's team they always reiterate that the relationship of the candidate with Pablo Casado is "very good."
They speak practically daily and she emphasizes it in public, they aim.
In fact, the head of the PP list pointed out this Monday that Casado will participate not only in the beginning and end of the campaign, but that he will be in more events because Madrid is his political cradle. "Casado adds", they point out in the surroundings of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to conjure up the internal "interpretations" of the PP in Madrid that go in the opposite direction.
Madrid, "key" for Married
"Where Genoa can reinforce us, it will do so; coordination is good," add the same sources.
But, "obviously, Ayuso is going to have much more focus and more personalism," they add. It must be remembered that last week the president of the PP linked his future to that of the Madrid leader, since he considers that an "overwhelming victory" in the "jewel in the crown" that is the
Madrid's community
it would be "key" for him to come to the government later. In private, the misgivings of those related to Ayuso have also been directed at
Teodoro Garcia Egea
, Secretary General of the PP, for the abrupt entry of Cantó in the lists.
But Ayuso rejected that it was an imposition: "No. There was a lag of days in relation to when we wanted to communicate the names of the candidacy." "During those days I wanted to announce the name of the directors first. It was just another matter of announcements. "That of different directions, he intervened, since both Ayuso and Casado militate in the liberal wing of the PP.
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