Whenever the PSC has had the opportunity to win at the polls and govern in Catalonia, it has been because its electorate, plus the one it has been able to attract from other electoral offers, has not stayed at home on the day they had to vote, and because it has knew how to convince the undecided. Until now, the party did not fear a demobilization of its target audience despite the rosy predictions offered by the polls, and from what was seen at the opening rally of the campaign yesterday in Sabadell, which became an apology for the “ values” that Pedro Sánchez represents, the possible goodbye of the president will serve as an incentive,
In the first major political event with the socialist militancy after the crucial announcement by the President of the Government, in the PSC there was a strange mixture of enthusiasm and confusion. Enthusiasm about electoral expectations that may even be benefited by Sánchez’s bold gesture that places the electoral contest at the level of the struggle with the right and the extreme right that gave an excellent result to the PSC in the general elections in July. But at the same time, confusion at the timing of the president’s decision, which he does not admit, according to their opinion, a turning back.
Hence the call for “collective resistance” by “all progressives and democrats” that Illa launched yesterday against “those who irritate, insult and have a narrow, old and myopic conception of politics, understood as the conquest of power.” at any price”, and against those who “talk about vetoing and blocking, verbs that I have been hearing from the lips of some for weeks”, he pointed out in clear reference to Junts.
If Sánchez already added to the PSC campaign, now and despite his absence at the Sabadell rally, too. Illa closed ranks with the president: “It is the values ??that Sánchez represents that generate these attacks,” but “from your individual resistance we raise a collective resistance and we tell you, Pedro, that we are with you,” the candidate dedicated.
But “Sánchez cannot do a Xavi,” says a senior leader of the PSC, for whom it would not be understood that the president resolved his appearance on Monday with the decision to submit to a question of confidence. In such a case, the leader of the PSOE would see his “credibility” undermined and could find himself with less support than in the investiture, they warn in reference to Junts. In conclusion, “everything can go very well or very badly”, summarized in the match.
Despite the prevailing uncertainty, yesterday’s rally in Sabadell served as a plot to encourage socialist mobilization, as claimed hours before by the former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Instead of Sánchez, the PSC had the participation of the Minister of Industry, Jordi Hereu – the only one from the PSC in the Government -, who praised the “democratic quality” of Illa in the opposition against Feijóo, and warned the PP leader : “Learn, Mr. Feijóo!”
A socialist leader admitted after the rally that “on the left we have lacked heart,” but that the president’s “ordago” connects with this lack, humanizing him and the political option he represents. And by extension to the PSC.
