The new general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, said Monday in conversation with the journalists that Alberto Núñez Feijóo will not rule in coalition with Vox even if that implies not reaching the Moncloa. “It is a commitment of Feijóo. There will be no coalition government,” he said. “Feijóo's commitment is alone. There will not be a coalition government,” he insisted.
Minutes before these statements Tellado has appeared at the headquarters of the PP, in Madrid's Calle de Genoa, for the first time as 'number two' of the match after being promoted in the XXI congress of last weekend. “I want a solo government,” Feijóo said during the closing of the conclave. In the same speech he also said: “We are not going to make a sanitary cord to Vox. It is the third force of the country, its voters deserve respect and I am not willing to corner them.”
Feijóo thus raised “wanting to” govern alone, but did not set a clear commitment about it. At the same time, he said to be open to “pacts” with the entire parliamentary arch, from Junts to Vox. His only express exception is EH Bildu.
This Monday morning, the new parliamentary spokesman, Esther Muñoz, was not blunt in an express question about the possibility that the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, is vice president of Feijóo after the next elections. “We are going to wait for elections and see the deputies we have,” he said in Telecinco.
Faced with doubts, journalists have already asked in the afternoon up to three times directly to Tellado. And three times the Secretary General has avoided giving a clear answer.
In his first response, Tellado referred to Feijóo's speech in the closure of Congress that has enthroned him at the head of the PP. “He asked a series of questions he wanted to answer to clarify to the whole of Spanish society. And President Feijóo raised what government they can expect after the Spaniards are called to the polls and decide the future of our country. And today everyone knows that there are only two options: Sánchez or Feijóo,” he said.
Tellado added: “And President Feijóo explained that he wants a lonely government, a monochor government, a solid government and a united government. That has been the general tonic over four decades of democracy in our country. Sánchez is the first to make up a coalition government that has finally become a collision government.” The 'number two' has settled: “It is evident that Spain needs a unique government, a united government that works to serve the general interest and that does not give the shows that the first coalition government that Pedro Sánchez has presided over has given our country throughout these seven years.”
The use of the verb “love”, the same employee yesterday by Feijóo, has motivated the rechants of the journalists. The second response has followed the paths of the first: “I believe that Feijóo has expressed itself with meridian clarity. He wants to give Spain a unique government, a united government, a government focused on the general interest and not the shows that Pedro Sánchez has given our country over recent years.”
Tellado added: “We are going to work intensely to get that government. How? Forging a large majority of Spaniards who believe that the change is to concentrate the vote of the center and the vote of the center -right in a winning option that is that of the PP.”
Tellado's words have caused a third question about it: “Before forming a coalition government would have new general elections?” The answer: “You want to influence the questions and I influence my answer, which I think has been clear enough. We are talking about what our aspirations are. We want to give Spain a solid government, a unique government, a united government. That can only be given by the PP.”
Tellado has continued: “Yesterday Feijóo also expressed itself clearly we are not here to establish a sanitary cord around Vox, as the left asks us, as Pedro Sánchez asks. No, Vox is the third political force of this country. His voters deserve a respect and of course, we are not here to corner them.”
The press conference has followed other paths to the repetition of Tellado's response. As usual after any appearance, journalists have talked with the secretary general, who has assured that Feijóo has acquired the “commitment” to govern alone, although they have not expressed it in public.
The PP address has authorized to publish and attribute to Tellado what was said in that conversation, normally informal and whose content cannot be reproduced. The Secretary General has affirmed with the microphones out that “Feijóo's commitment is that there will be no coalition government.” And he reiterated: “Feijóo's commitment is alone. There will not be a coalition government.”
