“This week everything changed, everything changed”, said the candidate for the presidency for Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, this Friday during an act with personalities of culture -in which she was seconded by Bob Pop, Carlos Bardem, Marisa Paredes, Chus Gutiérrez and Pedro Almodóvar, among others-, hours before the closing of the campaign: “We can win, because everything changed this week with the disaster of Feijóo, with the lies and with the debate to three”, Díaz repeated. , who claimed not to speak from enthusiasm, but “with data”.
The vice president’s conviction fueled the change in mood this week, which has been an ordeal for the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, due to the setbacks in the interviews, the reissue of the scandal around his close relationship with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado and his absence from the TVE debate, whose audience data reveals that the electorate still did not consider the contest resolved. At the Sumar headquarters, the good performance of Díaz during that debate and the succession of missteps by Núñez Feijóo consecrate the evolution of a campaign that has gone from less to more and that reaches its outcome at the best moment for its candidate.
For Sumar, a sign of Díaz’s great performance in the final stretch of the campaign are the invectives launched from the PP against the vice president, beginning with Núñez Feijóo’s comment on Díaz’s “makeup” and, above all, by the last-minute editorial launched by FAES, the foundation chaired by José María Aznar, and in which Sumar’s candidate is accused of “neo-communist costume made in haste with scraps of Dior and a half I created self-help literature.”
The numbers that are handled in the last-minute tracking, despite the fact that polls cannot be made public, remain in the scenarios foreseen since before the start of the campaign –between 3 and 3.5 million votes–, but evolving on the high side of the fork. The key for Sumar is not so much in the number of votes, but in its distribution by electoral constituencies, but the platform hopes to match the 35 seats that the political space obtained in 2019.
