They say that to know who has won a face-to-face it is who manages to set the pace of the debate, but it is as subjective as the opinion of each one. And it is that both the President of the Government and PSC candidate, Pedro Sánchez, and the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, have indicated their satisfaction with his role in the debate that took place this Monday at Atresmedia.
Sánchez has valued this Tuesday from Vilnius (Lithuania), just before the start of the NATO summit, his participation in the face to face accusing the president of the Popular Party of “proposing a mountain of lies” in the face of the “absolute absence of a project political and program. Before the start of the Atlantic Alliance meeting, the president commented that Feijóo made “blatant use, as we have seen in recent years, of a form of terrorism, that of ETA, which fortunately disappeared because Spanish democracy defeated it 11 years ago.” .
“Therefore I leave this debate satisfied. Many things have been clarified and it has become clear that the one who has a country project is the PSOE and not Mr. Feijóo,” said the head of the central Executive. “Facing what we saw was lies, insults and an unfortunately stark use of ETA terrorism that fortunately Spanish society defeated many years ago”, he lamented.
“I am a politician who listens, but I also respond to the falsehoods that are spread about economic growth or the number of self-employed workers,” Sánchez continued, noting that Feijóo “even said that [the popular] had approved a revaluation of pensions, which is a lie”. “In short, a mountain of lies because behind it there is nothing. What there is is a total absence of a political project and a disturbing tactic by Feijóo to embrace Mr. Santiago Abascal, the Vox party,” he concluded.
For his part, Feijóo, who has continued with his campaign events this Tuesday, this time from Ciudad Real, allowed himself to mock the effort, in his unsuccessful opinion, used by his opponent to prepare the face to face: “I don’t know why it has 800 advisers”, “I don’t know why he shuts himself up for four days in Moncloa”. But despite the satisfaction that he showed with the result of the debate, Feijóo also expressed concern about what could happen after the elections, given the danger of the dispersion of the vote that would prevent him from reaping a clear majority. If that happens, the PP leader maintains, the only thing left is new elections, and he has no doubt that Sánchez will try because he plays “blockade.”
Sánchez, he said, “the only thing left is for the ballot box to allow him to block the country,” and he referred to what happened years ago: “Do you remember the no is no? Do you remember when we had problems forming a government?” Well now, he said, the same thing could happen, “that they won’t let us form a government, that they blockade the country, and go to elections” to try to get the polls to benefit Sánchez more than what the polls now predict.
In conversation with the journalists, Feijóo explained that the President of the Government attended the debate “to see if he did not lose so much” but predicted that “they are going to lose by a lot, and we are going to win, and we are going to win by a lot”. But for that he needs “that we vote with enthusiasm, which the government no longer has.”
Feijóo did not hide his satisfaction about how the debate turned out, “I knew that it was going to work out for me, but that it was not going to work out.” A satisfaction that allows the party to mobilize, which was tired of the efforts of the municipal elections, but always with the warning that this is not the time to relax.
In fact, the popular leader considers that only “if the vote is distributed” in the center-right spectrum, “Sánchez will be able to stay.” For this reason, Feijóo also warns about the possibility of staying with the fact that he has won the debate: “The worst is relaxation and euphoria” and the PP and the voters have to be clear “we have won the debate, not the elections.”
