The Ibex approaches Feijóo before the expectation of change

• The Panel (I) Feijóo increases its advantage to 45 seats over Sánchez despite the Government's attacks

• Panel (II) Feijóo already seduces 680,000 PSOE and United We Can voters

There is a maxim that says that economic power always predicts political changes, but perhaps it is more accurate to say that what it does is prepare for them.

For this reason, now that the polls are clearly smiling at the PP, the first swords of the

have accelerated their "private" approach to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as confirmed by various sources from the main opposition party.

The president of the PP has intensified his "unofficial agenda" in the face of the large number of requests for meetings and telephone calls that he receives from large business groups.

Feijóo has already met, among others, with

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) and with

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), but he would also have had contact with

(led by

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they do not confirm or deny these last three names, but merely acknowledge that contacts with the first row of the Ibex exist.

“Large companies once again trust the PP.

Feijóo's unofficial agenda is full of people who want to meet with us.

When winds of change come, economic power changes.

First swords of the Ibex meet with Feijóo, but we are not going to air the agenda, ”point out other PP sources.

It should be remembered that Feijóo created an

to channel from Genoa all the external and “discrete” contributions to his project.

So, through this confidentiality formula, the great Spanish managers have contacted the leader of the opposition to exchange economic analyzes with him, in the face of the price and energy crisis that hangs over Spain.

And because of the demoscopic expectation of political change.

Those leaders who “advise” Feijóo have also warned him about the increase in public debt and its possible implications for the country's finances.

They have shown Feijóo their concern about the increase in public debt

This approach also occurs at a time when Pedro Sánchez has assured that his Government is "very uncomfortable for certain economic powers" that "have their political and media terminals" that are not going to be able to "break" the Executive despite that "he gets hit a lot."

After that depth charge, Sánchez has organized this Monday a meeting with 50 citizens with whom he will exchange impressions and forecasts, but he does not plan, today, any meeting with the big businessmen.

In the worst moments of the pandemic, he did surround himself with the top brass of economic power, under the banner of "resilience", and in the heat of the economic transformation that the EU's

were promoting .

It so happens that an informative Europa Press breakfast will also be held in Madrid today, starring Feijóo, which is expected to be attended by more top-level business leaders than in the previous stage of the PP, with Pablo Casado.

Feijóo has recovered the good

with the

, according to sources from the employers' association and the PP.

"The CEOE no longer has the distance it had with the PP, and the big businessmen respect Sánchez less," they say in Genoa.

“There is a cause-effect relationship between the bad relationship between the Government and the good relationship between the PP,” they interpret.

«Sánchez shoots against the circles because he has lost the Ibex», so that the approach to the

«is not only due to the

», they judge.

economic sluggishness

In the PP they remember that the economic power backed the recipes of José María Aznar on his way to

and later, those that Mariano Rajoy promised as a candidate.

And that support was very important.

Now Feijóo is aware that he must strengthen relations with a business elite that is also represented by

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),

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) or

, who became president of

the same day that the delegates voted for Feijóo in Seville, on April 1.

The Ibex groups consulted assure that they are not going to comment on the private agendas of their top leaders, but they do recognize that they are meeting with people of political and institutional importance due to the economic "context".

And they add that big business is now adopting a different "role", more active in its dealings with politicians, precisely because of the economic sluggishness.

Contacts have been "intensified" due to the concern of having inflation above 10%, acknowledge business sources.

There are also more contacts with the PP due to the new taxes applied to banks and energy companies.

One of the black points of Pablo Casado's leadership was the lack of support from big businessmen.

Not only because of the silence they kept in the face of the PP's proposals, but also because of their misgivings about appearing alongside him.

In some cases, reticence bordered on none.

Now, five months after Feijóo's arrival at the seventh plant in Genoa, it is the companies that have approached the head of the opposition.

The surveys are very relevant in this business turn, because they have consolidated a real expectation of change.

poll

for this newspaper, published yesterday, predicts 137 deputies for the PP.

That is to say, 43 more than when the internal crisis broke out that ended Pablo Casado's career.

Then, the

ones had a demoscopic expectation of 94 deputies that threatened to drop even more (in a single day, the intention to vote fell more than six points).

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