“This week everything has changed, everything has changed”, said yesterday the presidential candidate for Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, during an event with cultural personalities – in which she received the support of Bob Pop, Carlos Bardem, Marisa Paredes, Chus Gutiérrez and Pedro Almodóvar, among others -, hours before the end of the campaign: “We can win, because this week everything has changed with the Feijóo disaster, with the lies and with the three-way debate”, repeated Díaz, who assured that no he spoke from enthusiasm, but “with data”.
The vice president’s conviction fueled the change in mood this week, which has been an ordeal for the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, due to the setbacks in the interviews, the reissue of the scandal surrounding his close relationship with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado and his absence from the TVE debate, whose audience data reveal that the electorate was still not over the dispute. At the headquarters of Sumar, the good work of Díaz during this debate and the succession of stumbles of Núñez Feijóo consecrate the evolution of a campaign that has gone from less to more and that reaches its conclusion at the best time for its candidate.
For Sumar, a sign of this great work by Díaz in the final stretch of the campaign are the invectives sent from the PP against the vice president, starting with Núñez Feijóo’s comment about Díaz’s “makeup” and, above all, by the last-minute editorial published by FAES, the foundation chaired by José María Aznar, and in which Sumar’s candidate is described as a “neocommunist figurine made very quickly with Dior scraps and mediocre self-help literature “.
The numbers that appear in the last-minute follow-up studies, despite the fact that polls cannot be made public, remain in the scenarios predicted since before the start of the campaign – between 3 and 3.5 million votes – but evolve in the upper part of the range.
The key for Sumar is not so much in the number of votes, but in the distribution by electoral constituencies, but the platform is confident of equaling the 35 seats that the political space obtained in 2019.
