The president of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will formally kick off the campaign this Friday in Madrid, supported by the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and by a large group of young people from the organization. Next, he will set in motion a route through various Spanish cities, whose first stops will be Santiago de Compostela, Santander, Lleida, Pamplona, Bilbao, and La Rioja, according to sources from the party.
Before that official start, Feijóo will travel this Thursday to Badalona to take part in an event with the city’s mayor and head of the list for the Congress by Barcelona, Xavier García Albiol, which will serve as the starting gun for the campaign for the general elections of 29 November. The president of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, will also be present at that event.
The PP leader will return to Catalonia on Monday, since his team has scheduled an event in Lleida, a province in which the party currently has no representation in the Congress. The ‘populars’ emphasize that this community is a determining constituency for reaching the Palacio de la Moncloa due to the high number of seats it distributes (48 out of 350).
At present, the ‘populars’ only have six deputies (five for Barcelona and one for Tarragona), but they trust in improving their results in the Catalan capital and winning a seat for Lleida and Girona, according to the same sources.
Event with young people in Madrid
After his stop in Badalona, Feijóo will return to Madrid to take part this Friday—first official day of the campaign—in an event with the president of the Community of Madrid and young people from the party. The president of NNGG and candidate on the list for Madrid for the Congress, Ignacio Dancausa, will attend the meeting.
On Saturday, Feijóo will travel to Santiago de Compostela accompanied by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda. On Sunday, he will travel to Santander, where he will hold a rally together with the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, the candidate for the Congress, Isabel Urrutia, and the mayor of Santander and head of the list for the Senate, Gema Igual.
On Monday, 16 November, the PP president will go in the morning to Lleida (Catalonia) and, in the afternoon, will headline a rally in Pamplona (Navarra), a territory in which the ‘populars’ and Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) run together in a coalition for the general elections.
Rally in the bullring in Valencia at the campaign halfway point
On Tuesday, 17 November, the PP candidate will travel to Bilbao, where he will be supported by the leadership of the Basque PP headed by Javier de Andrés. In the afternoon, he is scheduled to travel to La Rioja, as sources from the organization have specified.
While waiting to close the rest of the schedule —the dates of the election debates that the Television Academy will organize have not yet been set—, the PP has brought forward another major central campaign event: a massive rally on Saturday the 21st, in the middle of the electoral contest, to be held in the bullring in Valencia, an emblematic venue for the 'populares' in the last decades and a symbol of their periods of absolute majorities.