Alberto Núñez Feijóo aspires to an absolute majority. He does not utter that word, but he speaks of a majority that allows him to vote alone, although he acknowledges that “this majority is difficult, very difficult, extremely difficult, but not impossible”, because “a country is built with people who do not think alike” . What he wants is easy, what happened on 28-M in La Rioja, when the PP got the government that the PSOE had, with an absolute majority, the same as in the Logroño City Council.
Its objective, therefore, is Vox, in many provinces, that the vote of those of Abascal is not lost is basic for that majority. And also the abstention: “Abstention is a vote for Sánchez to stay Warned.” He does not ask, he warned, that “they give me the vote”, nor “a blank check”, but rather the union of vote so that “change is possible”.
“We need 20 seats”, proclaimed the president of the PP in Logroño, which are obtained by ensuring that in the provinces that elect 4 seats, such as La Rioja, the result is 3-1. It is the only way, he stressed, to have “a solitary and stable government. If we unite the vote for change, if we concentrate the vote on the PP”, it can be achieved.
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, explained it at the meeting in Logroño, in her land, La Rioja, which contributes four seats to Congress: “It is not worth being 2-2. We went out to win and that is to get three deputies from the PP, and 1 for the PSOE”, because that not only means that the PP has one more deputy, but that the PSOE has one less, with which the difference widens.
That happens in the provinces that elect 4 or 5 deputies, and that is why Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been visiting small or medium-sized provinces all week: Ciudad Real, La Rioja, Navarra, Cantabria, Álava, tomorrow Guadalajara. There are a total of 18 provinces. Ten of them elect four deputies, who are usually divided between the PP and PSOE, but Feijóo now aspires to 3-1, it would be a 20-seat difference.
It is, Gamarra said, that “their vote is useful and they add up to multiply.” From the beginning of the campaign, the PP appeals the useful vote, and since Tuesday, after the debate, that appeal is to Vox voters, although Feijóo does not quote them, although he has made them his enemy. Gamarra wants to be clear and calls everyone by name when asking them to vote. She does it with Ciudadanos voters, “who believe they are orphans, and they are not.” To the socialists “who do not understand sanchismo”, whom she asked to “be brave, stand up to them and take the Núñez Feijóo ballot”. And to Vox voters, whom Gamarra does cite, “who can make the result in La Rioja 2-2 and Sánchez win.” He asks Vox voters “that their vote be useful, and that they add to multiply.”
Feijóo asks for that majority to achieve the change, which, he clarified, “is not defeating the adversary, it is not replacing one president with another, it is not what suits the PP. The change is for Spain.” And he calls for that clear majority because “Spain is not negotiated. The state is not negotiated. The state is the group of Spaniards who have decided to live together five hundred years ago and who want to continue living together for another five hundred.”
The change that Feijóo offers is, assured the popular leader, “a management project, the union respecting differences, and a project that can be trusted”, because “we cannot subject Spain to the government of all those who have lost “. With this change, the president of the PP tries to convince the abstentionists and Vox voters “he can change the history of the country. We will do better” and “the worst government in the democratic history of Spain will be left behind, and bring a better government and better politics.
Despite the difficulty, Núñez Feijóo believes that it is possible, and warns “the countdown has already begun”, There is one week left and the president of the PP explains what he wants to do with that vote: management, seriousness. “I’m not asking for any free votes. I’m not asking for any blank checks,” he said.
