María Guardiola went to Madrid this Friday to inaugurate Isabel Díaz Ayuso as president of the Community of Madrid. But the baroness of the PP of Extremadura avoided making statements to the media, which awaits her with great expectation. It was the first symptom of the new strategy that Genoa has formally requested in the last few hours from the president of the PP of Extremadura, as various sources have confirmed to EL MUNDO.

Accustomed to overexposure since the election night of 28-M, the leadership of the Popular Party considers that having the media spotlight on them every day, and even more so after losing the Assembly Table last Tuesday, has harmed their candidate in Extremadura. And they especially complain, like many territorial barons, of his appearance as soon as he lost the vote, considering that he “blew up all the bridges” with Vox, so reversing the situation is going to be very difficult, let alone trying to lower the demands of Abascal’s party to reach an agreement for the presidency of the Junta de Extremadura that in Genoa, they still see as possible. “More than the bottom, they complain about the forms,” ​​assures a well-informed source to EL MUNDO.

At first, what was happening in Extremadura, in the first days of the negotiations, was even serving the PP well after the surprising, rapid and controversial agreement with Vox in the Valencian Community. “It served to balance the different sensibilities of the party and continue to widen the space.” But what at first was viewed favorably has ended up being “a serious problem that only favors Pedro Sánchez, who must be delighted.”

The problem, therefore, is that “he has put all the focus on us, when Sánchez should have the focus and nobody anymore -complains this source- talks about what he has done during the legislature, about his pacts with Bildu, of the pardons… the whole agenda is in Extremadura and in María Guardiola, and in how the party handles the pacts with Vox”, the aforementioned sources indicate.

In this way, the “mess in Extremadura has changed the topic of conversation, not only in gatherings, but also among the citizens and that for us -these PP sources say- is very bad for us because 28-M was voted in code Sánchez and now we are getting lost in this maze”. It is about Guardiola, therefore, “trying to calm down.” And these sources add: “Worse than the break with Vox are the ways in which it occurred, with those attacks out of tune, almost ruthless.”

So Genoa, which continues to endorse María Guardiola as a benchmark in Extremadura, has expressly asked her to “lower her tone, to let the party with which she has to agree to govern attack all day and, above all, to stop to be exposed so much on national television and to give so many interviews, because in the end, in anything, you end up messing up or being misinterpreted”. In short, that she “raise her foot” and put aside “I turned her from the media.”

“The noise must end because it is harming us all, especially the strategy of the national campaign, but of course also the regional barons, but not only them, also the mayors who have agreed with Vox in the rest from Spain, who also feel uncomfortable because it has placed them in a difficult situation”.

In this sense, it must not be forgotten that, in Extremadura itself, up to five municipalities have reached an agreement between PP and Vox. They have been those of Navalmoral de la Mata, Talayuela, Losar de Vera and Valverde del Fresno. Guardiola has justified these pacts in the same strategy that Genoa has given to the barons in their communities: freedom of negotiation for their municipal candidates.

What they did have clear on the top floor of Genoa is that Feijóo was going to publicly endorse it this Friday in the act of proclamation of Díaz Ayuso, where he has made it clear that there are “deep discrepancies” between PP and Vox in Extremadura and that “no there is a possibility at the moment of reaching an agreement”.

Genoa’s recommendation to Guardiola would not only be about reducing the internal tension existing in the rest of the territorial barons but also as her own strategy in order to try to retake the completely broken bridges with Vox: “The Assembly of Extremadura has been lost, but the situation is still reversible. But the first thing is that she lowers her tone to get the government, even if it is later difficult to govern with the parliamentary table against it, but that will already be a minor difficulty and a difficulty that can be saved, that would already be seen …”.

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