Her pitch works both on discontented leftists who see Spain's regions as a driver of inequality and on former PP voters worried that their party has shifted too far right.
In light of this new information, I may launch my own informal survey on the productivity of PP Forbes staffers and those who leave the confines of 60 Fifth for their afternoon sugar rush.
On March 25th Mr Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP) confounded the opinion polls by failing to wrest control of Andalusia, Spain's biggest region, from the Socialists.
The PP is vehemently opposed to the idea, and the colourful language of Spanish ministers on the issue in recent weeks shows they are nowhere near a position where they might consider sitting down for talks.