Overview
- At a high-profile PP event in Sueca, Alberto Núñez Feijóo made no explicit endorsement of Juanfran Pérez Llorca, a move party insiders described as creating visible doubt about Llorca’s future as the 2027 candidate.
- Génova spokesman Miguel Tellado publicly dismissed holding a regional congress to ratify Llorca, a procedural step that would normally confirm a regional leader and that would limit national intervention.
- National leaders have recently praised other Valencian figures, notably Valencia mayor María José Catalá and Alicante mayor Luis Barcala, a signal read by regional members as possible preference for alternatives to Llorca.
- Llorca’s team says it remains confident he will be the candidate, but complaints inside Génova about his actions—billboard self-promotion, the appointment and quick renunciation of his partner’s post, his handling of a teachers’ strike, and talks with Vox—help explain the national hesitancy.
- If Génova moves to back or appoint another leader without a congress, it would revive a pattern of strong national influence in the PP valenciano and could raise internal tensions that affect the party’s unity and campaign strategy for 2027.