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With Alberto Núñez Feijóo on the verge of taking the definitive step that he rejected in 2018 and running as national leader of the PP, attention is now focused on the movement of tokens that is urgent in two scenarios: in the new leadership in the party that leads the transition to the new era and in his homeland,

Galicia

, where he has two and a half years of mandate ahead of him as president of the

Xunta

and no clear successor.

In both contexts, there are several proper names from his circle of trust that could be decisive.

The who is who in the Galician PP in Madrid necessarily goes through Ana Pastor.

Former minister, former president of Congress and current deputy secretary of Social Policy of the party, the also deputy is part of the current

Management Committee

.

In the last meeting last Monday, she already asked for an immediate solution to the internal earthquake and she presents herself as a candidate to have a decisive role in the Popular Group, which Feijóo will lead from outside.

She knows the parliamentary dynamics and the functioning of the

popular

family , she has sufficient managerial experience and, what is more important, she has Feijóo's trust.

The Galician clan of the PP in Madrid has

another determining figure in

Diego Gago .

Despite his youth, the former national president of

New Generations

-he was when Pablo Casado was elected-, has spent two terms as a deputy in Congress and has carved out a profile of moderate and dialoguing -inheritance of his time as youth leader of the party - that fits with the way of understanding Feijóo's politics and places him in the starting positions as a man of confidence for the next transition.

Since the crisis broke out and the future of Casado began to be questioned, two Galician deputies have lined up as the main standard bearers of the

Feijóo route

,

Ana Belén Vázquez

, with a record for Ourense, and

Jaime de Olano

, representative for

Lugo

and member of the management national.

The two possible heirs in the Xunta are Alfonso Rueda and Francisco Conde

The moment of glory of the first had been in 2020, with a viral speech in which, in the midst of a storm over the

Kitchen case

, he brought out the colors of PSOE and Podemos by airing all their miseries.

And this week she was no less resounding when she resigned as head of the PP Abroad amid criticism of Casado for ignoring the changes "that the affiliates on the street ask of us."

She did it on the Tuesday that marked the end of the national president.

And, like Olano, she was one of the main defenders of the manifesto that called for a provisional leadership and an extraordinary congress.

Meanwhile, in Galicia, that increasingly close train from Feijóo to

Madrid

stresses the party, which leads without shadow or discussion and is now forced to find a substitute.

That reign that has been building since

Manuel Fraga

named him a substitute in 2006 has led the PP to unprecedented internal union quotas, but it has its negative side: there is no successor with a clear projection to hold the fourth consecutive absolute majority.

With the route to follow still undefined, it is difficult to make pools, but if that succession ends up being immediate, it could only leave the hands of the Xunta in two people, the current directors and vice presidents,

Alfonso Rueda

and

Francisco Conde

.

Any of them would be the least traumatic replacement in the automatic Executive, since they are already part of the Government itself and have extensive experience in management positions.

In addition, they would legally be the only two options available for an immediate replacement, since the rule requires that the president have the act of deputy and they are the only ones who hold it.

Wheel, by

Pontevedra

;

Count, by Lugo.

The first accompanies Feijóo since the first legislature in the Xunta in 2009 and party sources believe that it would take years to prepare him for a smooth transition, while Conde has only been a decade, but has in his favor that he has put in his hands one of the keys to the success of his Government, the economic aspect.

The Galician hard core

Although they do not sound like successors, any look at a change of course for the Galician PP necessarily goes through

Pedro Puy

and

Miguel Tellado

, two figures who grease the pipes that make it possible for the party to chain four absolute majorities.

Puy is spokesman for the parliamentary group and is considered the current ideologue of the party in Galicia, while Tellado, general secretary of the party, is the brain behind the success of the last three electoral campaigns, which allowed the Galician baron to repeat his success.

Feijóo's current hard core in Galicia includes among its assets

Diego Calvo

, president of the party in

A Coruña

, where he presided over the Provincial Council for four years and earned a reputation as a good manager that is consistent with Feijóo's political style and makes him a figure to look to for the future of the party.

Key, too, to recover an urban vote that has been resisting him for years in Feijóo, the undisputed leader in rural Galicia that fails to place any mayor in the big cities.

Elena Candía

, president of the PP of Lugo, mayor of

Mondoñedo

, second deputy spokeswoman in Parliament and one of the territorial baronesses who strengthen the support of the party throughout the territory ,

would have a similar role .

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