Since the campaign began on July 7, Marga Prohens has been sworn in in the Balearic Islands, Carlos Mazón is already president of the Valencian Community and María Guardiola was proclaimed yesterday and will take office in Extremadura on Monday.
The three cases are the result of the pacts between PP and Vox and it remains to be seen what may happen in Murcia and Aragón, where the popular ones also need the support of the extreme right to form a government. The lack of harmony in these two communities with the party of Santiago Abascal works as a counterpoint to stage that it is not agreed at any price, despite the threat of repetition of elections. After July 23, we will see what happens in these autonomies.
When it comes to the middle of the campaign, these agreements with the extreme right are not taking their toll on the PP. After the face-to-face debate between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo at Atresmedia, the popular ones feel strong. This is indicated by the majority of surveys except this week’s CIS. The PP has begun the battle to capitalize on the useful vote that allows them a comfortable majority. They have placed Vox at the center of the target to hunt down those voters who want change and prefer a government free of ties.
Along these lines, the PP installed a canvas yesterday in Madrid to appeal to this useful vote, while the popular leader warned that if the ultra party is bet in some provinces there will be “thousands of votes that do not get seats.” The message is clear, voting for Vox does not solve anything and will help Sánchez remain in government for four more years. “There are 20 seats, which is what we need to govern alone,” Feijóo said in a clear allusion to the hole that Vox can make in the PP’s aspirations to reach Moncloa.
The PSOE tries in the final stretch to counteract the apathy of the left and the adverse polls. His speech has an impact on denouncing alliances with the extreme right and “the impudent exchange of rights for votes, of principles for armchairs”, as Pedro Sánchez warned yesterday, in an act in Madrid surrounded by artists and creators.
The world of culture close to the left is mobilizing against the censorship episodes – the ban on feminist plays or the cancellation of subscriptions to Catalan magazines – that have arisen these weeks. Abascal’s party has secured control of the culture portfolio in autonomies and city councils with the clear objective of imposing its ideological discourse. And he is getting it.
Sánchez used the quote before a public that is related to him to defend the “rights of women and the free creation of expression.”
The story of the good progress of the economy and of the announcements-proposals, which was intended to be the central axis of the municipal past, did not work for the PSOE and in this campaign it has changed third when trying to bring out the colors of the PP with the pacts with the extreme right and the result of these: suppression of departments of Equality and substitution by Family areas, cultural censorship, elimination of the term of gender violence…
The popular ones denounce the policies “imposed” by the PSOE government partners and the agreements that have been reached throughout the legislature with the pro-independence parties. In Genoa they use these alliances to bill the management of the President of the Government and socialist candidate. In the survey published last weekend by La Vanguardia, a deep rejection of the parliamentary relationship of the coalition government with EH Bildu and ERC and the law of only yes is yes was evident.
There are seven days left for the end of a campaign that has recovered the old bipartisanship. A week in which the two big parties will appeal to the useful vote to convince the 35.2% of citizens who are still unclear who they will vote for on July 23.
