The folder loaded with papers with which Alberto Núñez Feijóo came face to face with Pedro Sánchez anticipated what the PP leader wanted from the debate. Overwhelm to get out alive. The problem with the debate, for the leader of the opposition, was to be wrong, and even more so before a president who had to take risks to turn the polls around and who knew that he was going to attack. That is why a Feijóo was expected to go out to tie up, not to risk, and Sánchez found himself with an opposition leader who came out to overwhelm, and he did it with data, with questions and putting questions and criticisms on the table and complaints.
The president of the PP could have gone out without making a mistake, but he knew that his voters expected more, that Feijóo would tell Sánchez, to his face, what he says in public, what they think, and the popular leader gave his voters what what they wanted If he did it in the right measure, went too far or fell short, it will only be possible to know with the result of the polls.
Despite going on the attack and twisting the face on occasion. Despite the interruptions, Feijóo maintained a calm but harsh tone. He was not deterred by Sánchez’s attempt to equate him with ultra party leader Santiago Abascal. Nor with the criticism of the agreements with Vox in town halls and autonomous communities.
He answered with a gesture that he knew was useless: sign an agreement to facilitate the government to whoever wins. Sánchez did not do it, but with it, the PP leader came out of the trance and got what he wanted. Place your campaign messages on “sanchismo” and on “the lies of the president.” In the PP they were happy, and there were even those who wondered, jokingly, why they had not accepted the six debates.
