“The extreme right and the extreme right are emboldened”, warned Pedro Sánchez yesterday after a huge blue wave overflowed the containment dike that for the socialists should have been the municipal and regional elections. “But in Spain we can stop this reactionary current, for our sons and daughters. The PSOE must stop this reactionary current!”, he cried before the last dike raised in the race – the general elections of July 23 -, to prevent Alberto Núñez Feijóo from reaching Moncloa.
The leader of the PSOE warned that the war will be total in the new campaign: “The storm will be tremendous.” The one on 28-M was only an “appetizer of filth, insults and lies”, and for the one on 23-J he warned that the right “will try to tighten up to unsuspected limits so that the arguments are not heard, with the “the only concern is that we lower our arms and demobilize the majority”.
But Sánchez already hardened his speech with a strong ideological attack against the right-wing and the denunciation of the use of Trumpist strategies and all his media power. “From the position of dominance they have in big companies and the media, an even fiercer campaign of insults and disqualifications will be unleashed, barbarities and a cascade of lies will be invented.” The same methods, he assured, of Trump and Bolsonaro.
Sánchez deployed a class speech in front of the right and to try to concentrate all the left-wing vote around the PSOE. “Our party was not founded by seven ex-ministers of a dictatorship with the financing of a few bankers”, he denounced, referring to the PP, “it was founded by some workers in a tavern”. “These are the people we represent, who we defend and on whom we depend to win the PP and Vox”. And he pointed out that, despite the powers that want to bring him down, the vote equals everyone: “The vote of a bus driver is worth the same as that of the owner of a television channel, the vote of a supermarket cashier than a bank president”.
“We have made mistakes and stumbled, but the successes have been greater”, he alleged. And he warned that the achievements achieved are at risk if the “coalition of the extreme right and the extreme right” reaches Moncloa. “Repealing Sanchismo, as the PP and Vox say, means destroying everything that has been built, dismantling everything that has been conquered and putting an end to social progress”, he warned.
“I like to win and it hurts me to lose”, he admitted three days after the “serious institutional setback” of the PSOE, which lost most of its territorial power on 28-M. “A punishment so undeserved and so unfair” suffered by so many regional presidents and socialist mayors, he lamented.
But, faced with the final battle of the generals on 23-J, he tried to inject morale of combat, and even of victory, into the socialist ranks to prevent them from giving up their arms before the push of the right: “We to battle We have to fight”, he asked. Quite a touch of submissiveness before the socialist deputies and senators of this last legislature -many of them still in a state of shock-, whom he brought together in Congress yesterday. “Sunday’s elections are not an end point, they are the starting point”, he warned. And, despite the bleak forecasts, he assured that they will win the elections.
The president raised the new appointment with the ballot boxes as the definitive battle to try to stop the push of the “extreme right-wing tandem, because there is no distinction between the PP and Vox”.
And, far from throwing in the towel, he asked for more support than ever: “For the next four years I need to have strong and resounding support, with the most important social support to continue the path of progress and transformations that will make a better Spain” .
