• Genoa politics encourages Villacís to join the PP, but without conditions: "There are no internal currents here"

  • Interview Inés Arrimadas after the refoundation: "I said no to all the PP offers. Either with Ciudadanos or with nobody"

Begoña Villacís is one of the three main orange signings that Alberto Núñez Feijóo dreams of.

The other two are Inés Arrimadas -much more difficult- and

Luis Garicano

, who cannot return to politics until he completes his commitments as a university professor at

Columbia University

(New York).

So that of the deputy mayor of Madrid is the easiest to materialize.

In fact, the national leadership of the Popular Party clearly opens the doors to him, but on one condition: that there be no counterparties or preferential treatment or outside the normal party discipline.

"The PP comes without conditions," sums up one of the main leaders of Genoa, in conversation with

EL MUNDO

.

In addition, they are urging her to make a decision now, because extending the soap opera would be detrimental to the electoral interests of José Luis Martínez Almeida, PP candidate and mayor of Madrid.

"She has to give herself the last push," they illustrate on the main floor of the

popular ones

.

«The reality is that she is taking the step.

But either they come to the PP with all the consequences or nothing.

Today he has already crossed the Rubicon », they celebrate.

They thus refer to the information advanced yesterday by

El País

about Villacís's interest in going over to the PP, but with loose verse status.

"My intention is to be an internal current within the PP," he told various officials and members of his team a few weeks ago.

She herself later confirmed it in a video on

Instagram

, in which she assured that she had considered this possibility as well as others.

"Thousands," she said.

In addition, Villacís would be trying to ensure that the Ciudadanos candidates who wanted to do so could join the

popular

candidacy , but as independents or in a sort of tacit coalition.

This idea is not liked at all in Genoa.

«In the PP there are no currents.

This is not a coalition, it is a government party," say sources from Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team.

The door of the PP is "open" by way of invitation, but "the way is not to talk about currents," insists an official spokesman for the main opposition party.

"A single drop of water is not a stream.

It increases the flow, but it does not modify the course of the river”, metaphorizes a high official of the national PP.

«In the PP there are no personalist currents.

This is a serious party and whoever wants to come has the door open, but we are not a coalition, but a political party with clear and defined ideas and projects”, he adds.

"That Citizens finish dying"

In any case, no one escapes that this means a first step for the possible incorporation of Villacís into the

popular

ranks .

The fact that he has verbalized it among his own means that his case has taken a leap in quality.

«If they ring the bell we will open them.

We need Ciudadanos to finish dying, “summed up PP sources.

Villacís "does not get anything" in his internal polls on the Madrid municipal elections

on May 28

, they reveal, but it would improve Almeida's result, if they go together, they say from the leadership of the main opposition party when Villacís made it known that if Edmundo Bal won the primaries, she would leave.

It was around seven in the evening when Begoña Villacís herself, given the commotion caused by the news, chose to explain through her Instagram account.

«At some point it was valued to be part of another party as a political current?

That was valued, as thousands of options have been valued.

At a time when a party is like Cs (...) there are people who consider it lost and there are people who are involved in something else.

I am among those who want to make this project of a liberal center viable », she explained.

«Yes, thousands of options were evaluated.

Denying it is absurd », she continued.

«The option that I defend is another.

At this point in the party, the most intelligent thing to do would be to act as a liberal party and give the municipalities freedom so that they decide the most intelligent way to attend there, "he added, unleashing Bal's anger.

«I speak with many colleagues who know their towns and cities perfectly.

Some believe that the best way is to do it with our acronyms”, he said, and others “believe that the best way is to create a municipal platform”.

"There are many ways to do it and we should all be concerned and listen to what our peers are saying," he concluded.

The general coordinator of the PP,

Elías Bendodo

, spoke with Villacís a few weeks ago, but he delegated the final decision on his possible signing to the PP in Madrid.

And in the

popular

ones from Madrid there are edges.

On the one hand, there are those who see it as that “essential first step”.

It would be a relief for Almeida, because it could happen that the ballots that he scratched with his own brand would turn out to be vital for a hypothetical majority.

But there is no uniform opinion in the

Madrid

popular formation.

There are those who think that this transfer "would not make any sense."

Not, at least, within the Madrid PP itself.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso herself rejected the option of signing Cs talent for her team.

"My project does not suit him," she assured during a recent meeting with this newspaper.

The

feeling

between the two is practically zero, so that route would be practically closed.

BAL EXPLODES AGAINST THE VICE MAYOR: "HAVE GOOD LUCK, BEGOÑA"

The deputy spokesman for Cs in Congress, Edmundo Bal, harshly charged Begoña Villacís yesterday for having proposed that his party give freedom to municipal candidates to run for Cs, on platforms or joining other projects.

«We did not come to Ciudadanos for this.

Good luck, Begona Villacis », he poked.

Yesterday, management sources explained that

the opinion of all affiliates to relaunch the liberal project was heard in the

General Assembly and that "in no case" was the idea of ​​integration into another brand discussed or decided.

In turn, they maintain that Villacís continues to be their "essential asset": "she will be our candidate in Madrid."

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