Pedro Sánchez assures every day that in this legislature he had to “look for votes even under the rocks” to approve his agenda of reforms and advances in rights and freedoms. But, already in the final stretch of this electoral campaign, the leader of the PSOE is determined to scratch until the last seat in play throughout Spain to try to prevent a majority that allows Alberto Núñez Feijóo to evict him from the moncloa
This was evidenced by the President of the Spanish Government on Monday, when he was absent from the dinner held in Brussels on the occasion of the summit between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to lead an impromptu meeting in Notch And so he made it clear again yesterday, when a delay of more than three hours over the initially planned schedule forced Sánchez to leave Brussels hastily once again, without attending the final joint appearance of the summit, to lead a rally in Sant Sebastià, where the socialists fight for the seat that dances.
Like the eve in Huesca, the leader of the PSOE also arrived late yesterday at the meeting in San Sebastià. But just in time to announce “the minute and result”, in his opinion, of this campaign, just five days before the appointment with the ballot boxes on 23-J. “The right installed in the lie, and us in the comeback”, he assured the 1,500 supporters, according to the organization’s figures, who filled the Kursaal auditorium.
Sánchez presented himself in Euskadi, in any case, as the only bulwark against the irruption of the PP and the ultra-right Vox. “The right and the ultra-right have one goal: retrogression. And they have an obsession: the PSOE”, he assured.
And if they fear the PSOE, he resolved, it is because it is “the only one that can slow them down and the only one that can accelerate progress over the next four years”.
The President of the Government made a singular impact on the warning sent yesterday by the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, in which he predicted that “what will happen in Catalonia if they govern with the PP will be even worse than what happened in 2017” . “Spain is much better than Feijóo and Abascal and that’s why we will win the elections”, he emphasized. “Because Spain must always look forward and not relive its worst moments”, he replied to Abascal.
Sánchez also took the opportunity to challenge Feijóo to attend tonight’s last electoral debate of the campaign, organized by RTVE, in which Abascal and Yolanda Díaz will be present, but not the leader of the PP. The head of the Executive insisted on denouncing “the lies and manipulations” that he attributes to the leader of the opposition, after his statements about the revaluation of pensions or the pacts with Vox. “This policy is called the policy of lies”, criticized Sánchez. “Feijóo has a great opportunity to clarify these lies by going to the debate we will have on RTVE. He has the great opportunity to clarify all his lies by going to the debate that we will hold on public television!”, he cried.
Sánchez insisted, despite most demographic forecasts, that “victory is closer”. And he celebrated the “so formidable mobilization” of the socialist militancy in recent days. In an electoral video also released yesterday, Sánchez called on militants and supporters to “continue pushing” until 23-J.
And, at the same time, a large representation of former socialist ministers from the governments of Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero signed another manifesto of support for Sánchez yesterday. Among the undersigned, Javier Solana and José Bono, Joaquín Almunia and Manuel Chaves, Ramón Jáuregui and Carlos Solchaga, José Montilla, Narcís Serra or Joan Clos.
