The PP, in front of the assault of the new 'birretes' in Galicia

A sunny morning, Vespers on Ash Wednesday, something very significant happened in Lugo.Citizens' head went to Villalba to claim the figure of Manuel Fraga.When they told it, after a meal in the castle of Sotomayor, the president of the XuntVery similar to what PNV is in the Basque Country or the PSOE in Andalusia.They are matches that become regime.Collectors of absolute majorities, their acronym get to melt with the regional institutions, their patriarchs are claimed by their rivals and vote them is almost a more identity feature more.

He used to say that it would be in Galicia where the right would break first.Today it seems the only place in all of Spain where, even with fissures, it will remain cohesive.The surveys give citizens a seat in La Coruña and we will see what happens in Pontevedra.Vox had not even planned to appear this campaign, it was going to be the only community that Santiago Abascal did not step on, and this is much more symptomatic than the CIS.Until a few days ago, in which a survey pointed out the possibility of a seat and the formation announced a rally at the Coruña Congresses Palace.As they say here, in an expression of difficult translation, it was not going to be or demo.

If the Galician PP is so difficult to break down it is because it has its roots very deep in the rural.This is a strange party, to the extent that Galicia is a politically strange place.The first great triumph of the History of Popular Alliance occurs here.It was 1981, when all Spain was about to vote for the socialists.The man who reached the presidency of the Xunt.Of the Galega reality.Success imposed its own logic and the party grew on its own, absorbing other formations such as Centristas de Galicia and Galega Coalition, and configuring as a de facto regionalist formation.To the point that today, the higher the Galician -speaking index of a municipality, the more likely it is that the PP will obtain a majority there.That is, they vote even more in the villages than in the cities and their electorate speaks more in Galician than that of the nationalists.

Carlos Luis Rodríguez, columnist of El Correo Gallego, is the father of one of those happy journalistic findings that end up incorporated into the common heritage.In his day he defined the two souls of the Galician PP as a dialectic between the berets and the birretes."It was in the era of Fraga.He knew how to play very well the tension between the technocracy of Romay Beccaría [Birrete] and the mobilization of Xosé cuíña [beret] ".As the journalist explains, the Galician PP was a decentralized party: "De Fraga always said he was a guy who controlled everything.It was actually a primus inter pairs.Had four provincial barons.Feijóo has much more power in the party that Fraga never had ".Some of those provincial barons, such as the aforementioned cen, came to dream of a Galicism "on the border of self -determination", and expressed it in pilgrimages too similar to an Aberri Eguna.A strange game.

Those fraguian territorial balances led.The Diputación de Orense is chaired today by a Baltar, Xosé Manuel, son of the celebration Xosé Luis Baltar, histrionic cacique on which a nine -year disqualification weighs for a crime of continuous prevarication.A walk through the Orensano Municipality of Os Blancos is enough to warn the cult that was given to this beret.The same City Council is located on Xosé Luis Baltar Street, the multi -purpose pavilion was baptized with the name of Xosé Luis Baltar and even a monument in memory of Xosé Luis Baltar.It was inaugurated by the then Mayor Rodríguez Ferreira, a man who summed up his creed: "I only believe in God, in the Virgin Mary and Don Xosé Luis Baltar".At the exit of Os Blancos, a neighbor stops working the garden to explain what was from that stone bust: "They knocked him down and dragged him, as if he were Sadam Husein, and is now stored there in a room of the City Council".

When Fraga fell into the 2005 elections, Feijóo - who said it was a bircrete because he went to Madrid to lead the insalud, but that he has raised in Os Peares - he took the game and took advantage of the opposition time to reorganize him: "With Fraga, the Ministry of turn did not know if he had to give information to its provincial president or the president of the Xunta.I have lived that and I promised that if I ever had that responsibility I would never accept that organization model ".It has done well.He governs with an absolute majority and has such security in his electoral strength that it is allowed to attack Vox with an unprecedented courage in almost the entire PP.

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In fact, it comes from doing so in Moaña, in an act dedicated to the women of the sea, along with Ana Pastor, head of the list in Pontevedra, one of the last embers of Marianism in the lists of Pablo Casado, so from Rajoy that all the wholeWorld believes it is Pontevedra, when he was born in Zamora.Feijóo Vox label in the ultra -right.The battle has its morbidity.Although Feijóo actually what worries him is not vox, but citizens.The profile of the Galician voter of Citizens, according to Sondaxe, is that of an urban, graduate and salaried.They are the new birretes and have serious chances of snatching a seat to the PP in the provinces of La Coruña and Pontevedra, where are the most populous cities of Galicia.For Citizens, in Galicia the language is not a social problem, which is a problem is the exclusion of Spanish in the administration, an important nuance regarding the vox position.

While orange volunteers distribute propaganda in a modest table mounted in the lively Faxeira de Santiago, Marta Rivera de la Cruz explains that "it is enough that a small fissure is opened in the Galician political scene so that everything changes".The head of the list of citizens by La Coruña is a member of the party executive and very close to Albert Rivera, such as Girauta or Villegas, to which the leader also risked sending them to provinces where he danced a seat (Toledo and Almería).

Rivera de la Cruz complains that the PP patrimonializes more than the symbols of Galicia: "You do not know how difficult it is to campaign here.The PP has a patrimonial sense of institutions ".The Electoral Board has just covered it in its complaint for coverage, or rather the lack of coverage, that Galicia's radio has made the Citizens campaign and has urged to agree compensatory measures: "Feijóo wants to discuss with the tides andThe sciences of the tides, but not with Citizens "."Now they will compensate us but they have managed to erase us for 10 days of the campaign," Zanja Rivera de la Cruz.

It is curious, all the premonitions that fell on the Galician PP were the other way around.The rural one did not split and Feijóo, who represented an incarnation of the devil for the berets that governed him, now what he has to worry is about birretes who go to the assault of the cities.

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