Rueda asks for a last effort: “we cannot fail, Spain is waiting”

Last push. In Santiago de Compostela, the PP candidate, Alfonso Rueda, current president of the of Galicia were preparing to participate in a debate on TVE – this is the last of the campaign – which is being held tonight and to which the Galician leader of the PP refused to attend.

At this rally, held in the lobby of the pavilion – a part of the public has been left outside – where the local team, Breogán, plays, Rueda asked the supporters for a last effort. “All of Spain is watching what happens here. We can not fail”.

Rueda, who has called for the largest mobilization in the history of the Galician PP, has been explicit regarding the challenge that the party faces between now and Sunday: convincing and mobilizing every last voter. “On the 18th there are only two ballots. The PP ballot and those of the rest of the parties because all the others will serve the same purpose, to form a coalition against us.”

This message is also directed at conservative voters from other options, perhaps Vox, whose votes will hardly be translated into seats. The PP needs them to avoid falling below 38 representatives, which would mean the loss of the absolute majority and the more than predictable formation of a left-wing coalition.

Possibly one of the most relevant things that has happened in this strange campaign is that as the days have progressed, the expectation that this scenario, the loss of the absolute majority, is possible, has become increasingly credible even for its own. Popular Party.

Rueda, and the rest of the candidates who have spoken at this event on the banks of the Sar River have focused a good part of their interventions on the Galician Nationalist Bloc, the emerging party in this electoral struggle whose strength they are trying to plug.

Linguistic policy, and the objective fact that its program includes the right to self-determination as a political goal, are two of the aspects that the PP focuses on in all its rallies. The popular ones consider that Ana Pontón hides her true political program behind that friendly image with which she, in effect, has managed to open a gap even among the conservative electorate.

The PP has released a video today on its social networks in which it assimilates the Nationalist Bloc with Bildu and, ultimately, with ETA. In reality it is nothing new. Alfonso Rueda already equated Pontón with the terrorist group in the Galician Television debate in the first week of the campaign.

With all these precedents, the candidate has asked the socialist voters who do not want to see an independence party in the Xunta to vote.

The PP sees the Galician socialists as a subsidiary option of the Nationalist Bloc. “There is not even a scratch left of the Socialist Party of Galicia,” Rueda said this afternoon at this rally. His thesis, which he explains at his rallies, is that the socialist leadership is already doing well with the sacrifice of its Galician candidate as long as the PP is defeated on Sunday.