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The day after the Madrid elections.

That was the date set by the national leadership of the PP for the end of the mini truce with Citizens.

No

orange

signings

until after the elections, was Pablo Casado's guideline to his own.

"Until May 5, nothing," he told them.

Well, when the date arrives, the PP is preparing to reactivate its "strategy" of incorporating "local, provincial, regional and national" positions in Cs, according to sources in Genoa.

And it will do so "in a staggered manner", little by little and under a premise, that the formation of Inés Arrimadas is heading towards "irrelevance" on the national board, after losing its main political wealth, that of the Community of Madrid.

The result of Cs in the 4-M (zero deputies) "was an explosion that had to be confirmed" to be able to undertake the other signings, the

popular

consulted

admit

.

The PP has already had contacts with dozens of charges and former charges of Cs, and some of them have already committed to taking the step.

How?

Not so much by joining the party, but by announcing its break with Ciudadanos and ensuring that gathering the vote around Casado "is the only option the center-right has" to return to power.

"Reunification at the base"

This Wednesday,

Francisco Fernández Bravo

, a former Cs deputy in Congress and a member of the General Council, announced that he is leaving the training because of the wrong "script" that he wanted to give the Arrimadas party with his latest decisions.

"The people who design the party's strategy have killed him," he wrote in his farewell letter, in which he argues Murcia's "shameful" motion of censure against the PP as the main reason for leaving the party.

Of the relevant names associated with Cs that are most liked in Genoa, those of

Juan Carlos Girauta

, Begoña Villacís,

Marta Rivera de la Cruz

and Juan Marín stand out. But now in the

popular

leadership they

believe that it is not time for great movements, but for a "reunification from the base" that begins precisely with the lower and middle positions of the party. And the rest of the incorporations would be tried "later".

In the task of bringing together the discontented cadres with Arrimadas is

Fran Hervías

, former secretary of organization of Cs, who now works together with Teodoro García Egea, general secretary of the PP.

In March, Hervías gave an interview to this newspaper in which he revealed his jump to Pablo Casado's party, to contribute to the "recasting" of the center-right.

"We open a waterway in the PSOE"

After him, the great signing of the

popular

in the Cs fishing ground has been that of Toni Cantó. In Genoa they believe that he was the only one called to "inherit" the presidency of the party before the "drift" of Arrimadas. That is why they believe that their incorporation into the

popular

ranks

is the last straw for the division of the center-right and leads to a union, but now not under the umbrella of Spain Suma, but of the PP.

In fact, Casado already discounts the definitive disaster, at the national level, of Ciudadanos: "Two and a half years ago we held our congress as the third political force in Spain. Today we are the first force and that has been because we have achieved what we set out to do. , unite the majority of the center-right in the PP and open ourselves to voters from other parties without renouncing our principles and values, "he said in his speech on Wednesday before the

barons

, in the party's National Executive Committee.

"We recovered all the Citizens' vote and opened a waterway in the PSOE," added Casado, who has claimed part of the victory of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the Madrid elections: "Without our strategy of Spain Suma, of the pacts of government, or of the rejection of extremism [of Vox] we would not have gotten this far. "

"Sánchez dynamites the left"

The president of the PP congratulated himself on the division of the left, "which appears fragmented into three parts," while the right now only has two initials with real options.

"It is not a coincidence but the result of a discreet and unrecognized work," he said.

"Sánchez fired the motions of Murcia, Castilla y León and Madrid, and they have turned against him like a boomerang", proclaimed the leader of the PP.

In the National Executive Committee, García Egea delved into the idea that Casado is "reunifying" already "the center right, while Sánchez dynamites the left."

"There is enthusiasm for this government of which we are all part, we must stay the course. The results confirm our strategy."

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