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The president of the Catalan PP, Alejandro Fernández, will not be part of the party's lists in the general elections on July 23. The regional leader will not leave the Parliament and resists, in this way, the strategy of the national leadership, whose plans have long included the relay in the Catalan dome.

Fernández, who chairs the regional PP since November 2018, had sounded in recent days as a possible number one for Barcelona for 23-J, a position that in the 2019 elections was occupied by Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who on this occasion will be presented by Madrid. However, he himself has publicly rejected the party's offer this afternoon.

"At the time, I was very critical of those politicians who, at the first difficulty, went to Madrid and left here a huge sense of abandonment. I will not fall into such a mistake," he posted through his Twitter account to clarify that he will not follow in the footsteps of former Ciudadanos leaders Albert Rivera and Inés Arrimadas, who left the leadership of their party in Catalonia to go to Congress. In the case of Arrimadas, even when she was head of the opposition in the Parliament and Cs had been the most voted force in the autonomic ones. Both are now retired from politics.

Fernández's decision should be interpreted more in a political than a personal key. The return to the Lower House, where he was already a deputy between 2011 and 2015, seemed a good destination in the transit towards his departure from the presidency of the party, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo intends, but the Catalan leader "has preferred to maintain his political commitment to the voters and continue defending constitutionalism in the Parliament", They explain from their environment.

In this way, the regional deputy opens "a war with the national leadership, which already gave him for dead", and does so wielding "the legitimacy and moral strength of the trench, his fight on the front line against nationalism", point out parliamentary sources of the PP.

According to his environment, Fernández is convinced that, with a PP government that emerged from the elections of 23-J, "the independence movement will return to the insurrectionary path" and he wants to be in Catalonia to "give a constitutional and pro-European response that neither Vox nor Ciudadanos can offer".

Just yesterday, the leader of the Catalan PP warned of these intentions on the part of Junts per Catalunya at a time when his party debates whether or not to hinder the access of the post-convergent Xavier Trias to the Mayor of Barcelona, an operation in which the four popular councilors could have the key depending on the support that the socialist Jaume Collboni can gather , which also aspires to the rod of command after being in second place in the municipal elections of May 28. "Be very careful with Junts. Today they have warned us again," Fernández said on Friday following the speech of Anna Erra as the new president of the Parliament.

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