The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, entered the Catalan electoral campaign this Wednesday with a visit to the April Fair held in the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona together with the socialist candidate for the Catalan elections on May 12, Salvador Illa. .
The president’s visit, at the initiative of Moncloa, takes place one day before the head of the central Executive participates in the first campaign rally this Thursday in Sant Boi de Llobregat.
The president’s appearance in Barcelona alongside Illa at the Fair has caused a great stir at the fairgrounds, especially at the PSC booth, where militants and sympathizers have expressed their support for Sánchez, with shouts of “Pedro, Pedro” and “president, president,” and taking pictures with him. Sánchez spent a few minutes with Illa and shortly left the fairgrounds.
Sánchez’s emergence into the Catalan campaign shows the motivation of the PSOE leader to get involved in the PSC’s electoral campaign, after having been absent as a result of the five-day reflection period in which he left his continuity at the head of the Government up in the air. . Once it has been decided that he will continue, the president wanted to maintain the agenda of electoral events that he had planned in Catalonia, first with the rally in Sant Boi this Thursday, another on Saturday in Montmeló and finally, the closing of the campaign next Friday the 10th. May in the Vall d’Hebron.
Sánchez’s visit to the April Fair in Barcelona is the president’s first meeting with socialist militancy after his decision to continue leading the Executive, and it occurs on Workers’ Day, a holiday throughout Spain. Just a few hours before his fair ride with the president, Illa was participating in the demonstration called in Barcelona by the unions, where he promised to “co-govern” with social agents to improve public services if he becomes the next president of Catalonia.
