In my last article I suggested that the Prime Minister be the candidate who obtained the most votes, as Felipe González has just proposed now. Today I would like to reflect on what people think, a few days before the elections. I speak every day with many different people and, with the exception of the Catalan nationalists, who have three parties to choose from, of the others, some tell me flatly that they will not vote for the PP, because they do not want Vox to govern in any way, and others assure me that they will not vote for the PSOE, because they cannot stand the post-communist ideology of Sumar or Podemos. Who will they vote for, then?
If the possibility of voting for Ciudadanos still existed, surely some would favor that option, but it is not possible. Will they vote for nationalist parties that are not going to agree with the extreme right or the extreme left? It’s a possibility, but it doesn’t seem very realistic to me. I believe, from what I hear, that the majority will vote no to the extreme right, so they will give their votes to Pedro Sánchez, or no to the extreme left, so they will give theirs to Alberto Núñez Feijóo. It depends on which extreme each voter dislikes the most.
And honestly, I don’t like the idea. I don’t like people voting so someone doesn’t win. I would prefer that we all vote for whoever we think will do better and that we go on July 23 to cast our ballot with the hope of helping whoever deserves it win the most, not helping whoever we don’t like lose.
I, at least, will go to vote with that attitude and if the party I vote for has to compromise on what it would not like and surely I would not like, with the sole objective of being able to govern, surely, I will not do it again. never vote again, even if I have to abstain from now on. And what I fear is that many have already decided to abstain so as not to vote for either of the two extremes. And who will that favor? We will know very soon, on the 23rd of this month.
