The PP plans to relaunch Feijóo's leadership in a quiet meeting.

Despite the initial rumblings from Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who announced that she would fight to prevent the PP from abandoning the primary system enshrined in the "one member, one vote" formula, the celebrations for the 21st PP national congress will proceed peacefully.

The Madrid president renounced the challenge launched at the anti-government demonstration on June 8, and last week, while on an official trip to Miami and New York, she approved the model proposed in the draft statutes, which returns the central role in the election of the leader to the delegates.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who couldn't have been completely sure of himself at the protest he called under the slogan "Mafia or democracy," can now breathe a sigh of relief, although the Madrid PP will continue working with the party's new leadership on "the nuances that need to be spelled out in the framework regulations for congresses," in other words, he's holding a card for later negotiations.

But if the "Gordian knot" Feijóo spoke of has been untied without much fanfare with the hybrid model that links the candidate and the delegates on a single list so there are no contradictions between the votes of the rank and file and that of the delegates, there are other issues, aside from the purely organizational ones, on which there can be debate.

The Popular Party leadership welcomes the broad support for the proposals, which received a thousand amendments.

With internal democracy preserved in the new statutes, according to its speakers—the presidents of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and Extremadura, María Guardiola; the mayor of Santander, Gema Igual; and the leader of the People's Party in Barcelona, ​​Daniel Sirera—the discussion shifts from organizational issues to ideological ones: the proposals included in the political report.

And this is where the role of the president of the Catalan People's Party (PP), Alejandro Fernández, becomes relevant. Unlike Ayuso on the domestic front, he is determined not to take a single step back and to enter the open field of political ideas with full force and experience.

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His intention is for the PP to make it clear that it will not enter into agreements with parties that seek to subvert the constitutional order—a clear allusion to Junts, although Fernández does not refer to any specific party—and, going further, for Spain to become a militant democracy in the style of Germany, an approach once championed by Ciudadanos and which, ultimately, would lead to reforming the electoral system so that nationalist forces, as is the case in Portugal, would have to present themselves throughout the country and lose representation in Parliament.

However, the leader of the Catalan People's Party believes that the ongoing negotiations will allow for an agreement on virtually everything before the congress, which would then proceed smoothly, just as Feijóo hopes to relaunch his presidential campaign.

The party hopes that this weekend's meeting will be held with most of the debates already closed.

Various voices within the party point out that the amendments – 1,115 in total, four times fewer than at the last ordinary congress held in Genoa – are presented individually and are transacted in dialogue with the rapporteurs, who are the ones who decide whether to include them in the document or, if there is no agreement, submit them to debate and vote at the congress, first in the corresponding committee and then, if necessary, in the plenary session, with 3,264 delegates.

This is what Fernando Sánchez Costa, former president of Societat Civil Catalana, did, for example. He sent the rapporteurs—the presidents of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, and Castile and León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; the mayor of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca; and MEP Alma Ezcurra—ten proposals to "enrich" their text, relating, among other issues, to support for the family and the fight against poverty. Five were agreed upon, thanks to the "will to integrate."