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The president has clearer every day is to turn to Esperanza Aguirre as number one on the city council lists, according to sources close to him telling ECD . The data that Arriola manages does give victory to the PP in the event that the current president of the party in Madrid appears as the head of the list. Rajoy, therefore, finds himself at a crossroads. From those around them they assure that when Rajoy has to make a decision he will be pragmatic and "will bite the bullet." He would not risk placing a candidate in the capital who is not a winner. Private conversations between the two Mariano Rajoy and Esperanza Aguirre have spoken privately in recent weeks, as confirmed to ECD by people highly trusted by both leaders. They have been friendly talks, without reproaches, and in which they have talked, especially, about politics . From Rajoy's entourage it is explained that the president gets along with Esperanza Aguirre , "better than what is said" and it is published in the media. “ They call and text each other very often ,” he adds. The same sources indicate that one of the issues they have addressed is the option of placing Esperanza Aguirre as the head of the list in the Madrid City Council, instead of Ana Botella. The response that Aguirre has given has been clear: the 'leader' is “ willing to take on the challenge ” and become a candidate for mayor. She herself has confessed on several occasions that governing her city, Madrid, would be her dream, the illusion of her life .
The Barcelona lunch, a success In this climate of good relationship, Moncloa has highly valued the management carried out by Esperanza Aguirre two weekends ago. Luis Conde, the owner of the company where the leader works, Seeliger y Conde , organized a private lunch at his estate in Barcelona attended by more than 250 guests. Among those attending were Artur Mas and two ministers of Rajoy's Government, José Manuel Soria and Ana Pastor , who therefore met there. The Minister of Public Works traveled to Barcelona expressly for that appointment, and she did not attend the Catalan PP convention, which was held that same day. In Rajoy's entourage, it is considered key that Esperanza Aguirre organized this meeting , in which the Generalitat's sovereigntist challenge was discussed. It was the first meeting of members of the Government with Artur Mas after the announcement of the referendum. [OBJECT]The problem: Aznar Sources close to Rajoy assure that the president would love for Ana Botella to be the candidate for mayor of Madrid. She herself, as ECD has reported , wants to repeat this , as she has expressed it to the leader of the PP personally. But Mariano Rajoy has practically decided that Ana Botella will not be the PP's number one on the lists. And the circumstance of having to exclude her especially worries him. As he has admitted to people he trusts, he is intensely concerned about how to inform Aznar that his wife will not be the candidate. He fears a negative reaction from the honorary president of the PP, especially after the sit-in that he staged at the Valladolid convention this weekend. Rajoy has confessed that he trusts that in the end Aznar will understand that the PP needs a winning option in a place of such importance for the party.
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發表於 2024-2-19 14:34:20