The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, kicks off this Friday the campaign in Madrid, where he will be accompanied by the President of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and by a group of young people from the organization. Next, he will begin a tour of different Spanish cities whose initial stages will include stops in Santiago de Compostela, Santander, Lleida, Pamplona, Bilbao and La Rioja, as party sources have stated.
Feijóo will travel this Thursday to Badalona to accompany the city mayor and head of the list to the Congress for Barcelona, Xavier García Albiol, at the event that will give the campaign for the general elections on 29 November the official go-ahead. The President of the PP in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández, will also be present at this event.
The PP leader will return to Catalonia on Monday, since his team has set an event in Lleida, an electoral district in which the party currently has no representation in the Congress. In the party they stress that this autonomous community is an essential piece for reaching the Palacio de la Moncloa due to the high number of seats it allocates (48 out of 350).
At present, the ‘populares’ add up to only six deputies in Catalonia (five for Barcelona and one for Tarragona), but they are confident they can improve their results in the Catalan capital and win seats in Lleida and Girona, according to the same sources.
Event with young people in Madrid
After his visit to Badalona this Thursday, Feijóo will return to Madrid to speak this Friday, the first official day of the campaign, at an event together with the president of Madrid and young people from the party. The President of NNGG and candidate on the list for Madrid to the Congress, Ignacio Dancausa, will attend this meeting.
On Saturday, Feijóo will travel to Santiago de Compostela, where he will take part in an event with the President of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda. On Sunday, he will travel to Santander to hold a rally with the President of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, the candidate to the Congress, Isabel Urrutia, and the mayor of Santander and head of the list to the Senate, Gema Igual.
On Monday 16 November, the PP president will attend in the morning in Lleida (Catalonia) and in the afternoon will headline a rally in Pamplona (Navarra), where the ‘populares’ and Unión del Pueblo Navarro (UPN) run in coalition for the general elections.
Rally in the bullring in Valencia at the midpoint of the campaign
On Tuesday, November 17, the PP candidate will travel to Bilbao, where he will be accompanied by the leadership of the Basque PP headed by Javier de Andrés. Later, in the afternoon, he is expected to travel to La Rioja, according to sources from the party.
While waiting to finalize the rest of the schedule —including the dates of the election debates that the Television Academy will organize—, the PP has advanced another major rally for Saturday 21, in the middle of the campaign, which will be held at the bullring in Valencia, an emblematic venue for the 'populares' over the last decades and a symbol of their periods of absolute majorities.