At the same time that the PP seals its new government coalitions with the extreme right in the Valencian Community and Extremadura, Pedro Sánchez accuses Alberto Núñez Feijóo of “muddying politics and the campaign to cover up his pacts with Vox.” He does so, in his opinion, by encouraging a “raging” electoral debate, with his cheating proposal, according to the Socialists, that the list with the most votes should govern, by raising “unjustified doubts” about the electoral process, or by stirring up the ghost of ETA and divide their victims.
But these strategies of a PP that he portrayed as “ultra-right” suppose for Sánchez an “ideological defeat” of the Feijóo formation, by assuming Vox techniques to try to gain electoral space, as he pointed out in an interview in Ser. The president of the The government thus denounced that the leader of the PP seeks to “muddy the playing field, to generate disaffection and polarize Spanish public opinion.” And he insisted that Feijóo’s claim is to “overshadow and hide” the formation of new autonomous coalition governments between the PP and Vox. It is, he reiterated, a maneuver to “muddy up and create disaffection so that people do not go to vote or mistrust the electoral process.” “But I am not going to enter this mud in which the PP and Feijóo are,” he warned.
Sánchez also tried to dismantle the offer of the PP leader for the list with the most votes on 23-J to govern Spain. “It is a smoke screen so that these pacts of shame are not seen,” he insisted.
And he recalled again that after the two general elections of 2019 he also requested the abstention of the PP, without success. In addition, the PSOE will not be able to govern now in communities such as Extremadura or the Canary Islands, or in municipalities such as Valladolid, despite winning the elections on May 28. “This debate is over, the PP, if it can, will govern with Vox,” he said.
The PSOE leader, in any case, refused to reveal his plans for the day after the elections, in case of defeat: “My plan A, B and C is to win the elections,” he settled. A message of victory that in the afternoon he tried to instill in his ranks, at the rally that he led in Santander, barely ten days before the appointment with the polls. Sánchez claimed the “fair play” of the PSOE and insisted on warning against the alliance of the PP and the extreme right. “Vox is not constitutionalist,” he said, because he assured that Santiago Abascal’s formation rejects political pluralism, threatens to outlaw parties, does not respect diversity and questions equality between men and women.
