There is party. Until the 28th, anything can happen. Alberto Núñez Feijóo began the campaign with a very graphic example: “The ball is on the post”, and added: Whether it enters or not remains to be seen. As the campaign has progressed, the president of the PP has been specifying the position: the ball is inside in such a place, the ball is in the post, out, in another. And so the ball has been oscillating in numerous squares throughout Spain. But the popular leader is aware that whoever wins the elections wins, the focus will be in two or three places. Seville and Valencia, among them.
In the capital of Turia, Feijóo, along with Carlos Mazón, made a show of force, filling the bullring with 12,000 attendees, according to the popular. Twice as much as Sánchez the day before, according to socialist sources. Does this mean anything? Well yes and no. Not going to the plaza already denotes fear of not filling it, it means weakness. Choosing it as the site of one of the central acts of the campaign, a show of force. The PP, yesterday, filled, but did not pack. It covered the pit and the stands, except the ones above, but it did not reach what could be achieved in the era of absolute majorities, that of Aznar in 2000 and that of Rajoy in 2011. Obviously it is far from 55,000 souls. that Aznar gathered in Mestalla on the eve of his victory in the 1996 general elections, but the older people of the place also remember that there are those who believe that the PP lost the absolute majority, that year, due to the excess of force that it demonstrated in the centenary Valencia soccer field.
Feijóo is reluctant to say, at this point, if the ball is inside or outside in places like the Valencian Community, although he is inclined to place it inside, which does not mean that it cannot go out. What they are convinced of in the PP is that the trend is positive, and that if the elections had been held yesterday and not next week, Carlos Mazón would be president and the “change you deserve” would take place, as their slogan says. . And not only in the Generalitat, also in the City Council. Yesterday, the bullring vibrated, above all, when Rita Barberá was summoned, the mayoress who may have a substitute in MarÃa José Catalá, who, eight months pregnant, continues to campaign convinced that this time it can be. The same does not happen in other territories, but there is a week left and Feijóo will not stay. He wanted to fill a bullring, the one in Pontevedra, the first time he was a candidate in Galicia. He didn’t fill in, but he won, and so on four times. Where will the ball land? Now they say that inwards, but there are seven days left.