The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has arrived at the national headquarters of the party shortly after 8:30 p.m., once the polling stations closed, to follow with his inner circle the progress of the vote count for the elections in Castilla y León, according to party sources.
From the national leadership of the PP, they face this election night with “absolute tranquility,” convinced that the candidacy of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco will again prevail at the polls after almost four decades at the head of the Junta de Castilla y León.
In ‘Génova’ they maintain that the data from this day will reflect “more right and less PSOE” in Castilla y León. “After almost 40 years we hope to continue governing, with external support as has been happening since 2019,” sources from the PP have indicated.
Besides, at the headquarters of the ‘populars’ they underline with sarcasm that, despite governing uninterruptedly since 1987, “the wear and tear is for the left” and that “the 'No to war' has had no effect” that Pedro Sánchez has brandished in the campaign amidst the war in Iran.
Vox, on the radar of the PP during election night
In the leadership of the PP they do not rule out that Vox could reach 20% of the votes, although they consider that it falls “within the reasonable margin” because they already started from more than 17.6% support four years ago and it is a community where Santiago Abascal's party is “consolidated”. However, they point out that about three weeks ago they were more “skyrocketing”, since the PP's internal trackings came to place them close to 25%.
Throughout the campaign, Feijóo has insisted on concentrating the vote on the PP and not "dispersing it" with Vox, raising the tone against Abascal's party, especially in the final stretch, after that party's 'no' was confirmed to investing María Guardiola as president of the Junta de Extremadura.
In fact, he accused Vox of "scam" and of forming a political "pincer movement" together with the PSOE in Extremadura and advocated "learning" from what has happened in that region so that it does not repeat in Castilla y León. "He who presents himself to block the alternative to the Government and scam the citizen, deserves a punishment from the people," he emphasized at the closing rally in Valladolid.
In that last campaign event, Feijóo showed himself persuaded that the PP is going to do “well” in these elections because it has developed a “good campaign” and has gone “to more”. Furthermore, he stressed that the vote for the PP has a double political effect, since “it serves to give a good government to Castilla y León and to give the biggest scare of his life to Mr. Sánchez”.
An intense campaign of Feijóo throughout Castilla y León
The leader of the PP, who has traveled 4,200 kilometers visiting all the provinces of the community, has combined large rallies with an intense street-level agenda and direct contact with residents. He has had his own electoral caravan, with stops in numerous municipalities, and has only coincided on two occasions with his candidate, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco: one in Ávila on Saturday, February 28, and another in Valladolid on Friday the 13th, at the close of the ‘Here, certainties’ campaign.
The national president of the PP opened the campaign on Friday, February 27, with a rally in Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), after passing through the Salmantine towns of Vitigudino and La Fuente de San Esteban, and resumed his own route the following Friday with an event in La Bañeza (León). From there, he chained together rallies in Tordesillas (Valladolid), on Sunday the 8th; in Riaza (Segovia), on the 9th; in El Burgo de Osma (Soria), on the 10th; in Villarcayo (Burgos), on the 12th, and on the morning of Friday the 13th in Ponferrada (León), before participating in the campaign closing in the Vallisoletana capital.