It has taken the PSOE years to learn to coexist with Podemos and that is what is now choking the PP with Vox. What to do with a party that is an electoral rival and, in turn, needs it to govern? That is the question Feijóo and his renewed team have to answer. Because any tenant of Génova 13 will only reach Moncloa if he manages to reduce his rival to the right. As long as both PP and Vox compete for several seats in several provinces, it is very difficult to gain majorities. They are mathematics, pure D’Hondt formula.
The fact is that Santiago Abascal, whom three million Spaniards supported less than five months ago (not to underestimate him), traveled to Milei’s inauguration. Vox is not going through a good time. From Buenos Aires, Abascal said that “there will be a time when the people will want to hang Sánchez by his feet.” And there was an uproar on social media.
The X network is the thermometer that political parties look to to gauge waves of indignation. The PSOE did not waste the opportunity and (as they called it to Fernando VII), in a week that was supposed to be complicated for the socialists due to the processing of the amnesty law, Abascal gave it a boost of oxygen.
The PSOE came out in force, but not against Vox, but against the PP: “Mr. Feijóo, do you agree with what your far-right partner says, with whom you govern in autonomous communities and city councils?” asked Santos Cerdán, number three. by Ferraz.
The PP did what it had to do and it was Feijóo himself who condemned Abascal’s statements without too many problems. The author of the unfortunate phrase responded yesterday in Congress: “I will never join in the lynchings against you.” The battle on the right is open.
Needless to say, Vox wanted to clarify after the fact that the outburst to Abascal is taken out of context. “If you watch the video you realize that it is a phrase formulated from metaphor and from the figurative sense,” said Pepe Millán. It is not too much to ask politicians to abandon the name-calling. Not all citizens like “fruit.”
As long as the vote on the right remains divided between two parties, the left will have an advantage to join with the independentistas. And the same thing happens on the left: if it is divided into three brands, Feijóo has more options to gain a majority. This maxim applies both to reaching La Moncloa and to the next Galician elections. It’s mathematics.
