“But didn’t they say that we were close to an absolute majority?” (…) “Yes, but we don’t add up, Pilar. We need more seats than those that remain to be counted” (…) “So has Sánchez won? Well, I don’t understand it, there has been a pot hole here”.
Génova street experienced a day of heart attack yesterday in which nothing ended up turning out as the Popular Party militants had thought.
Let them tell Carmen and Margot. Both friends met yesterday at 8:30 p.m. at the nearby Alonso Martínez roundabout, where they also walked, on the way to the PP national headquarters and arm in arm with their respective partners, Javier and Alonso. Any other year around this time, all of them, already retired, would be on vacation at the beach. But this summer they did not hesitate to interrupt them, the first ones, and delay them, the second ones. Everything to be able to be in Madrid on this 23-J and deposit their respective votes in favor of the Popular Party in the ballot box.
As soon as Pedro Sánchez decided to put the elections in the middle of summer, we were clear about it. In no way were we going to give the PSOE that joy ”, they pointed out optimistically when the count barely exceeded 10%. All this while walking up and down Calle Génova as if it were the promenade of your vacation destination. The one that they have had to park circumstantially to sign in what the disciplined voter of the PP understands as another day in the office.
But nobody in Genoa counted on the PSOE. Not even the National Police, which, just a few minutes after 9:00 p.m., decided to block the street by setting up a security perimeter that was too optimistic for the final influx registered at the gates of the popular headquarters.
Late in the count, his worst omens were confirmed. “They tell me that there is more atmosphere in Ferraz, I just can’t believe it,” pointed out two teenagers armed with Galician flags.
And they were right. At times there was less partying than on Friday, when a group of anonymously hired mariachis appeared before the PP headquarters to mockingly dedicate a narcocorrido to Feijóo for his controversial friendship with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado. Only a willful group of supporters managed to get a handful of cheers from a parish blocked by what they saw on their mobile phone screens. The curious thing is that only half of the songs were for Feijóo. The rest were taken by the president of the Community of Madrid. “If it was necessary to have opted for Ayuso, it is the only one that has taken the measure of Sánchez,” lamented the militancy, to whom the expectations created left them with little partying despite the fact that the PP has won the elections.
