Cuca Gamarra will be the PP candidate for the presidency of Congress. This has been revealed by Alberto Núñez Feijóo in his speech before the popular parliamentary groups of Congress and the Senate. In this way, the ‘popular’ stage that they will fight for the Congress Table at the highest level. While the negotiations are closing, Feijóo launches with the appointment of Gamarra the message that he believes that she can win the vote.
To occupy vice-presidencies or secretaries at the Mesa del Congreso, Feijóo has appointed Marta González, José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, Carmen Navarro and Guillermo Mariscal.
In the Senate, Feijóo has elected Pedro Rollán, so he will be the future president, since the PP has an absolute majority in the Chamber. He will be accompanied at the Table by Javier Maroto, Eva Ortiz and Marimar Blanco.
Gamarra is Feijóo’s number two, since she holds the party’s general secretary, and currently occupies the spokesperson for her group in the Lower House. Now the president of the most voted party places her in the arena to try to be the third authority of the State “because of her training and experience” of her. Of course, her appointment depends on what the Junts per Catalunya executive decides tomorrow, Thursday, which meets at 8:00 a.m., two hours before the constitutive session of the Parliament begins.
As this newspaper advanced, Gamarra’s candidacy implies that the PP sees options to win the vote for the presidency of Congress. Various party sources believe that they have a good chance, because they believe that Junts can break with Pedro Sánchez. But in Genoa they delimit that the PSOE has more options than them, a priori. “60% them and 40% us.”
Feijóo has not closed the support of the Canary Coalition to the PP. “We have committed 171-172 votes in favor of our investiture and to surpass us Sánchez needs the support of the extreme left, the populist left, the sovereignists and the independentistas,” he explained.
Before that, Feijóo has congratulated his own for being the two groups with the most votes, with 87 more parliamentarians between Congress and the Senate. “We have won, although some say that we have lost”, he has harangued his own. “You have to know how to win and how to lose; we have known how to win and there are others who have not known how to lose,” he insisted, to the applause of his co-religionists.
“The responsibility” for the independence supporters to be important only belongs to “the PSOE”, he has maintained, before assuring that Sánchez should stop “blocking the party that won the elections”. “Whatever happens tomorrow in Congress, the person in charge is Mr. Sánchez and he will have to assume responsibility for him,” he stressed. “He will go down in history as the leader of the blockade in our country since 2015,” he insisted.
In his opinion, Spain deserves a government that does not subject the country “to institutional wear and tear” and legislative “paralysis”, he said. “The PP has accepted that the message of the Spaniards at the polls” is “to negotiate and agree with other forces” because the majority is still not within reach.
“We have the responsibility to reach broad agreements” for a legislature that provides stability and “returns to politics with a capital letter,” emphasized the leader of the most voted party.
