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Feijóo wants to run Spain like a CEO. Not easy with far-right Vox on the board.

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Feijóo wants to run Spain like a CEO. Not easy with far-right Vox on the board.

MADRID — Trust us. We are sober, sensible — even slightly dull — managers. It’s not the world’s catchiest election slogan, but it’s the core message that Spain’s center-right People’s Party is banking on to propel it into government on Nov.

29. Reinforcing the idea that the PP wants to run the EU’s fourth-biggest economy like a competent, unflashy corporation, one senior party official, granted anonymity to speak freely, said the PP was “offering a CEO to lead the country.” Amid profound frustration with corruption scandals under the Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, it’s a message with traction, and polls suggest the PP will form the next government. But it also presents the party with an identity crisis if — as expected — it needs to team up with far-right populists from Vox to build a majority.

If the next government is a business, Vox will be a maverick on the board . Business leader The devastating Toledo rail crash that killed 69 people on Oct.