Rajoy cites 600 charges to relaunch the Popular Party – La Jornada de Oriente

The president convenes on Tuesday at the National Board to review its policies

The electoral proximity limits the ability to make changes at the top of the formation

Javier Casqueiro / José Precedo

The Country (Spain)

Thursday April 2, 2015

President Government, Mariano Rajoy, called Wednesday to the highest organ of the party between congresses, the National Board, which had two years without meeting and the last time was organized to settle the crisis caused by the outbreak of case Bárcenas. will meet for the third time in the legislature on Tuesday in Madrid. The appointment, which are called 600 positions, seeking to appease domestic criticism that require review government policies and reactivate the PP.

Time is short because the party has eight weeks to turn around the surveys and avoid a catastrophe in the regional and municipal, that May 24 will come into play the immense territorial power accumulated in 2011 (more than 3,500 mayors and 11 regional governments). The nervousness of the candidates and barons who risk everything has taken over the PP after the disastrous Andalusian experience. The appointment with the polls is key because, traditionally, who wins in these elections clearly just rule in Spain (except in 2007).

Rajoy plans to meet growing domestic concern with announcements of changes in social policy to recover the moral of yours and votes lost. The board intends to launch the fundraising and avoid internal crisis. It is the only entitled to carry out changes in the direction of PP, after passing through the executive committee organ, but the leaders consulted Rajoy ruled that dares with a remodeling of the dome in full election campaign. One of the respondents barons did not rule out the campaign team is strengthened and the role of Carlos Floriano, a leader answered stoop.

Although many charges claiming that a liberated person (without institutional obligations ) takes the leadership of the party to assist or even replace María Dolores de Cospedal, power steering reject that Rajoy will do relay next week. “Dismiss the desautorizaría Cospedal as a candidate in Castilla-La Mancha, one of the governments that the PP wants to revalidate” says a senior. Those closest to assume that Cospedal continue in office, especially after the call Rajoy made him for weeks to dispel any doubts about its continuity. “If anyone knows the PP is she, knows what you need candidates because he is president and knows better than anyone institutions,” says a partner who warns critics: “If everyone would work as Cospedal, would not be as we are”

The sources consulted PP contend that goes with the style of the president, not given to obey pressures, make the board to launch an optimistic message and advance a social measure that would reconcile with the lost voters and do see that after so many sacrifices, the vaunted recovery arrives somehow families.

In this context should be read rectification Health Ministry on Tuesday decided to return primary care to undocumented immigrants. The popular leaders consulted, some see the “dead” party – ensure that the Government will make further announcements on social policy in the coming weeks. It is decided that these measures are communicated Alfonso Alonso, a newcomer who has not singed with cuts. It is the formula chosen to improve communication, another recurring requests that are repeated more insistently after the fiasco of Andalusia.

The format of Tuesday’s meeting is not conducive to further discussion on the PP strategy. And most barons ensure that there is no time, with the local and regional top. The general belief is that some rectification -Rajoy said Tuesday that when elections come wrongly made should be corrected errors-help alleviate the fall of the PP brand.

Candidates and José Antonio Monago in Extremadura or Esperanza Aguirre in Madrid have already chosen personalistic campaigns, with the initials of very blurred game.

Meet

• The National Board is the most important organ of the Popular Party between congresses.
• are invited to attend, along with members of management, national and European parliaments, the regional presidents and the heads of each of the 52 provinces. In total, about 600 positions.
• The Tuesday April 7 will be the first meeting of this body of PP in the last two years.
• The previous meeting was held on 3 April 2013, in a storm in the case Bárcenas. Mariano Rajoy said at the end of the meeting that the case would, in short, “past history”.
• The strategy develop the game against the municipal and regional elections of May 24, after the failure in Andalusia, and the reviews of several territorial barons and other leaders to the communication policy of the Government and the PP, as well as possible changes in direction will be the themes that emerge expected at the meeting.