“We are going to win the elections again against all odds!”, he assured. The more the majority of the polls insist on predicting a broad electoral victory for Alberto Núñez Feijóo that will allow him to govern after 23-J, the more Pedro Sánchez insists on ensuring that every day it is clearer that he will win the elections again and that he will be able to reissue a progressive coalition executive. And so the President of the Government has reaffirmed it again, in the rally that he has staged this Saturday in Valencia, with which he has reactivated his electoral agenda already in the middle of the campaign -and that tomorrow will take him to Barcelona-, to deal with to shake off the discouragement caused by his face-to-face with the leader of the Popular Party last Monday, and try to raise morale in the socialist ranks.
But, on this occasion, Sánchez has appealed to his own history, to the “epic” with which he built his political figure, “against everything and everyone”, according to his faithful, to try to turn around all the polls that they augur the change of cycle in Spain after the next 23-J. In front of 2,200 supporters gathered in the Valencia congress palace, and together with Ximo Puig, already former president of the Valencian Generalitat, Sánchez thus warned that the socialists “have never had it easy” since Pablo Iglesias founded the PSOE in 1879 in the Madrid tavern Casa Labra.
“We have always had to fight against all odds,” he insisted. “My story too, as general secretary of the PSOE, is that,” Sánchez highlighted. And he recalled that he won primaries, twice, “against all odds.” And that, “to expel corruption from the Government of Spain”, he also won a motion of no confidence, in 2018, “against all odds”. Likewise, he won two general elections in 2019, to form an Executive of progress, “against all odds.” “And on July 23 we are going to win the elections against all odds!” He exclaimed, to loud applause.
He has warned, however, that he will not only win the elections for the PSOE, “of course also”, but so that “there is a free culture and there is no censorship”, for the workers, for the pensioners, for the young , by the LGTBI collective or by women, whose rights, he has warned, are “weakened” where the PP already governs with the extreme right of Vox. Sánchez wanted to make a unique call for the vote of women at this rally. “Faced with this coalition against women represented by Feijóo and Abascal, the PP with Vox, here is the women’s party, here is the PSOE. And on July 23 I ask for the vote of all women to continue advancing four more years in women’s rights and freedoms! Let no woman stay at home, all of them to vote for the PSOE! ”, She has cried.
Last Friday, former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero warned that “the problem is not Vox, the problem is this Popular Party.” A message with which many in the PSOE considered that he had “hit the nail on the head.” And that the leader of the Valencian socialists, Ximo Puig, has underlined today at the rally in which he has also intervened, already as former president of the Generalitat, before Pedro Sánchez. He has thus warned that this “new version of La escopeta nacional” is not led by “the subalterns”, in reference to the far-right formation led by Santiago Abascal, but by the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “The problem in Spain is not Vox, but the PP,” Puig pointed out. Sánchez, however, has insisted on putting the PP and Vox in the same bag of his alarm, parties that he has blamed equally for the “regression” and the “cuts” in rights and freedoms that, in his opinion, are suffering municipalities and autonomies, such as the Valencian Community itself, where the right-wing have already formed government coalitions. “We have to reproach Feijóo for what he is doing with Abascal, but we have to go vote with enthusiasm and hope,” he demanded.
The PSOE leader has defended “a free, equal and safe country”. “Not one step back in women’s rights!”, He has cried, in the face of the “claudication before machismo” that he has attributed to the PP and Vox. But, at the same time that he has demanded the vote of women, Sánchez has also called for concentrating the progressive vote in the PSOE and has urged mobilization, participation and to clear up electoral doubts. “An abstention is a setback like voting for the PP and Vox. You have to go vote on July 23 and you have to vote for the PSOE ”, he requested. “No vote can stay at home, you know it very well here in the Valencian Community,” he warned. Not surprisingly, despite the fact that the socialist Ximo Puig increased his support on May 28 in the regional elections, the electoral fall of Compromís and Podemos prevented the reissue of the Botànic agreement, and the formation of the new Valencian coalition executive between the PP and Vox. A whole warning for sailors before the next 23-J.
