Alberto Núñez Feijóo underpinned the renewal of the PP leadership with four women. Two of them, young people under 40 years old. Leader popular will propose today to the Executive Committee of his party Paloma Martin as Deputy Secretary of Sustainable Development, Ester Muñoz as deputy secretary of Health and Education, Ana Alós as vice-secretary of Equality and Conciliation Noelia Núñez as deputy secretary of Mobilization and Digital Challenge.
On the other hand, Borja Semper He will be the spokesperson for the national leadership of the party, a position that he had been holding implicitly since Feijóo rescued him into politics, but without officially naming him. This will provide a contrast and a counterbalance: Miguel Tellado He will be the tough voice in Congress and the Basque leader, the moderate one in the party. She will also continue to lead the Culture area, and will reinforce the communication of the popular from a spokesperson that he wants to turn into a political wishbone for the party and not just a commissioned representation.
It must be emphasized that his appointment was not expected to be made official this Wednesday, but sources close to Feijóo confirmed it in the halls of Congress, to the surprise of Sémper himself. Be that as it may, the fact that the San Sebastian native is going to be in charge of the party’s speech is a declaration of intentions complementary to the flinty toughness that the PP is beginning to exhibit in Congress. That dichotomy is not accidental.
The new PP Steering Committee will have 16 people (10 women and six men). Feijóo has replaced the deputy secretaries who have assumed responsibilities in the governing bodies in Congress and Senate (Pedro Rollan y Carmen Navarro), and has created new deputy secretaries “to adapt the PP to the social reality of the country”, according to sources in Genoa.
The clearest change is the attempt to “feminize” the party. As this newspaper announced, the internal analysis of the Genoa leadership determined that one of the main reasons for not having met expectations in the general elections of 23-J was the lack of strength in the female electorate between 20 and 45 years old. It is not a question of quota, PP sources explain, but rather of further “feminizing” the discourse and policies of the popular party. It is not an operation of posturing, but of rectification.