The Secretary General of the Socialist Party and President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, demanded yesterday evening from the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that he “ask forgiveness for the hatred he has created and the lies he has told these five years” .
Sánchez, who participated in a rally in A Coruña to accompany the candidate of the Socialist Party of Galicia (PSdeG), José Ramón Gómez Bestiro, accused the leader of the PP of having acted with hypocrisy, “in the morning, agreeing to the amnesty with the independence supporters, and in the afternoon, demonstrating in the street against the amnesty”.
The socialist leader assured that the worst of these changes in position is that it has deteriorated the political climate “with the insults or the sieges in the people’s houses that we now know were posturing”. Wrong and that, he welcomed Feijóo to the bet for coexistence in politics.
Sánchez will participate today in the closing of a campaign that has not exactly been easy for José Ramón Gómez Besteiro. The electoral space of its formation – which already in this legislature was the third political force – has been narrowing as its eventual partner in a government of change, the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), has been growing more and more about a wave of change in the political cycle unprecedented in many years in this community.
The Socialists trust the half a million voters who voted for the PSdeG-PSOE in the general elections of July 23. Sánchez urged them to come back on Sunday. “We need to finish the change”, which on the stage in A Coruña sounded a bit like “let’s put an end to Feijóo once and for all”.
This expectation of the president, the hope that those who voted for him in July will vote socialist on Sunday, seems quite improbable. The polls that continue to circulate insist that the PSdeG loses a significant portion of votes in favor of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
The President of the Central Government, in the intervention in A Coruña, did not seem to be particularly moved by the conflicts experienced by the PSdeG. This is precisely one of the criticisms leveled at him by the PP in the last days of the campaign, where – yesterday Feijóo insisted on this – they consider that the PSOE is sacrificing its party in Galicia with the sole aim of the PP being evicted from San Caetano, the headquarters of the Xunta.
Sánchez, who stated that he felt honored and proud of his candidate in this campaign, assured that the most important thing is to get a government of progress that is in tune with the policies of progress of the Government of Spain. An exceptional result for the BNG and the eventual alliance with the PSdeG to govern the Xunta fit perfectly into this vision.
In this sense, the president recognized that it is difficult to govern “with the actors we have” – ??an implicit reference to the combative Junts ally, with whom a PSOE delegation met the day before yesterday in Barcelona, ??as this revealed yesterday newspaper–, but he added that it is worth it. “I’m looking for votes even under the rocks to get the improvement of pensions, or the measures in favor of women and equality”.
Today, one of the strangest campaigns closes, according to those who have lived through many of the calls that have been held so far.
While the PP is threatened by uncertainty, on the left there is growing hope to turn the situation around. Today there are many more Galicians who say that change is possible than there were a fortnight ago, when the electoral campaign began. A change that everyone preaches, but in which it is not at all clear that everyone wants to be part of it if it comes.
The campaign has left Sumar, the party of Yolanda Díaz, cornered, which a month ago everyone considered essential to bend the absolute majority of the PP and which can now be said to have disappeared from the political agenda and accompanies Podemos in its fall.
