Feijóo meets with Ortuzar to strengthen ties, but notes "notable ideological differences"

• 'Operation simple majority' policy: the PP "reopens channels" with PNV, Canarian Coalition, Teruel Exists and PRC

They agreed to meet before November, and so it has been.

The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the president of the PNV, Andoni Ortuzar, met this Wednesday in

to strengthen ties and discuss

The meeting lasted

, from a little after 6:00 p.m. to before 8:00 p.m.

The meeting "arises as a result of an informal conversation last July in

, and is part of the round of contacts that Núñez Feijóo is having with leaders of other political formations after gaining the presidency of the PP", sources from the P.P.

"In it they have shared reflections on the current political context, the economic situation and the uncertainties derived from the national and international context."

Said meeting has allowed "confirming notable ideological and programmatic differences, but also institutional respect between two parties accustomed to having government responsibilities," the same sources point out.

The PP has undertaken a series of meetings with leaders of political parties to discuss the issues that unite and separate them.

"With everyone except Bildu", is the slogan.

In fact, Feijóo met last month with Santiago Abascal, president of Vox, and before that with the presidents of the Canarian Coalition and Unión del Pueblo Navarro.

simple majority operation

These last two are part of the PP's strategy to prepare the ground for a victory in the general elections that is insufficient to govern without support.

The

happens, above all, to get closer to the PNV, recurrent object of desire of the bipartisanship.

Ortuzar is the key man to iron out the rough edges that both formations have been accumulating since, at the end of May 2018, and only a week after being key to approving the PP Budgets, the PNV changed parliamentary bloc to vote in favor of the motion of censure against

.

The

verbalized in September, through the mouth of Aitor Esteban, that they have no reason to change allies, but in the PP they want to rebuild relations.

Not in vain, economically both are closer than it seems.

In addition, Feijóo's harmony with Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu is clear, but they have not yet been in contact for this rapprochement, according to other sources.

"The scenario with which we are working, today, is that: a victory that requires pacts," popular sources familiar with the operation recently assured this newspaper.

"Agreements", it is understood, that they do not go through Vox.

First, because of the dispute over the right-wing electorate.

And later, because those of Abascal would demand to enter the Government and Feijóo wants to repeat the model of Juanma Moreno or, at most, that of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

Genoa, with Feijóo at the helm and

as the main squire, has begun to weave a plan to recover communication channels with some of the parties that could be decisive in decanting the parliamentary majority.

Feijóo is going to meet with the leaders and Bendodo, with the number two.

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