Feijóo eliminated the position of general coordinator and demoted Bendodo to deputy secretary; Alicia García, the PP’s new spokesperson in the Senate

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has decided to propose to the National Executive Committee of the party that will be held next Thursday to appoint Alicia García as the new spokesperson in the Senate. In addition, the conservative leader will eliminate the position of general coordinator held by Andalusia’s Elías Bendodo, who will now head the undersecretary, in particular, of Autonomy and Municipal Policy, according to party sources.

Alicia García has been a representative in the Cortes Generales for Ávila since 2019. With a degree in Economics and Business Sciences, she has also been a Family and Equal Opportunities counselor for the Government of Castilla y León between 2015 and 2019 and a Culture and Tourism counselor in the same community between in 2011 and 2015. Previously he was in municipal politics, since he was a councilor in the Ávila City Council.

With the removal of the figure of general coordinator, Bendodo was demoted by Feijóo, but assumes the functions of deputy secretary, which until now was led by Pedro Rollán, but will also look after the field of Evolution and Electoral Trends, in addition. those Strategic Analysis and Planning people They depend directly on it. Feijóo then grouped the regional secretaries of the two departments around Bendodo, that is, he served as deputy secretary but with expanded functions.

Last week, while the entire party was waiting for Feijóo to communicate his own proposed reshuffle to form his new team in the PP, Bendodo expressed his “discomfort” with former boss and president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, over his arrival in Madrid after the July 23 general election. Various popular sources assured this newspaper that Bendodo asked Moreno to return to the Andalusian government and PP, although to no avail. Another senior PP official confirmed to EL PAÍS that what Bendodo admitted to Moreno was his regret about leaving Andalusia to enter national politics because in Feijóo’s team “he felt uncomfortable, his function was not defined, neither his role nor his space.”

In addition to the changes announced today, Feijóo announced yesterday that Miguel Tellado will become the party’s spokesperson in Congress, replacing Cuca Gamarra, while Carmen Fúnez will become the new Deputy Organization Secretary, replacing Tellado herself.