at 61, the Galician Feijoo is biding his time

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2023-07-21 20:23:56

Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, the candidate of the People’s Party (PP, right). PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP

PORTRAIT – The candidate of the People’s Party (PP, right) is the favorite in the polls for the general elections on Sunday July 23.

To Madrid

«I’m not Pedro Sánchez.Failing to discern with precision who is the candidate of the People’s Party (PP, right) and favorite of the polls in the general elections of this Sunday, we already learn who he is not. In interviews or in campaign spots, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo defines himself in opposition to the president of the outgoing government. The technique allows, of course, to distance himself from the convictions and the way of governing of his socialist rival. A way to say again that he wants “abrogate Sanchism”, its unofficial slogan, a way of bringing together all the hostile and disappointed leftists in power. But the hollow portrait goes beyond: everything, in his political trajectory and in his strategy of conquest of power, makes Feijoo the antithesis of Sanchez.

The latter conquered and reconquered his chair as secretary general of the Socialist Party (PSOE) with a beating drumbeat, by challenging executives of his formation and rivals in the primaries. The curator has…

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