The PP is still euphoric. The face-to-face debate between Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sanchez that opened the week has launched the conservative party, which has recovered the initiative after a pre-campaign in which it was stunned and confused by the negotiations with Vox in town halls and autonomous communities. Now, the popular consider that They’re setting the pace they have the PSOE behind them and they feel capable of capturing Vox votes.
These last two days, Feijóo has managed to mark the public debate after casting doubts on the cleanliness of the general elections. The PP leader did so for the first time on Wednesday at a rally in Murcia, when he asked the postmen to deliver all the mail-in vote envelopes “regardless of their bosses & rdquor ;. And this Thursday, although he went so far as to say that he is not talking about a “push” but about a “jam” of the system, he influenced the matter in an interview on Esradio: “We don’t even want to look at the stage because it would be one enormous political and legal significance. Votes cannot be left in the bags.”
According to socialist sources, this “hoax” about voting by mail damages the image of the institutions and the PP has launched it to divert the focus from the two investitures that it has achieved thanks to its coalitions with the extreme right of Vox: that of Carlos Mazón in the Valencian Community, which was held this Thursday, and that of Maria Guardiola in Extremadura, which will culminate this Friday. The circumstance occurs that in this second community Feijóo is going to default, as in Canary Islands or in town halls such as Valladolid and Burgos, their slogan that the list with the most votes should govern. In all those territories, the party that got the most ballots was the PSOE.
The leader does not condemn the chant “That I vote for you Txapote” in an attempt to please the far-right electorate
The unionist friend
In an interview on Cadena Ser, Sánchez said that the Post Office staff have been reinforced and pointed out that Feijóo is “muddying” the campaign to “not talk about what matters to the citizens, so that the two new governments are not seen with Vox”. PSOE sources recalled that the PP leader has even boasted publicly of being “friend” of Regino Martín, representative of the CCOO postal sector, for 20 years. Feijóo was president of Correos between 2000 and 2003, at which time they began their friendship. On Tuesday, on Telemadrid, Martín accused Correos of “encourage abstention“. “I know that they are cheating unions, workers and the population“, he came to affirm.
In the PP they deny that Feijóo is sowing doubts and stress that he is denouncing the accumulation Postmen work. And although the leader of the conservatives spoke of the “legal significance” that thousands of Spaniards could remain without voting if the corresponding documentation does not arrive, in Genoa they believe that “nothing would happen in the courts” because “nothing has happened these years ago when thousands of citizens were left without voting abroad” due to the arduous process required by the so-called voto rogado (already changed in the law a year ago now).
The popular ones, strengthened after the debate with Sánchez, are trying to widen the electoral base, trying to fish in Vox’s fishing ground to take away its power of influence after 23J. For now, the polls indicate that they will need those of Santiago Abascal to carry out the investiture of Feijóo. To please them, for example, points out one of his advisers, the leader of the PP has not condemned the song of “Txapote vote for you” that popular and Vox followers shout against Sánchez and whose use has divided the victims of terrorism. The motto refers to the ETA assassin who killed 13 people.
“Irregular circulation of envelopes”
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Much more forceful than Sánchez due to the doubts of voting by mail, two of his colleagues in the Council of Ministers came out: Yolanda Díaz, Vice President of the Government and Sumar candidate, and Raquel Sánchez, Minister of Transportation. On Antena 3, Díaz demanded that Feijóo show respect to the post office workers and added that it is the PP that is “vote manipulation expert” and have a problem with the “wagon“, as the accompaniment to vote with a selected ballot for the elderly and disabled is known in Galicia. “I have seen it and I have filed a complaint in my autonomous community, in Galicia, in Lugo, because people with disabilities voted, with certificates of not be able to vote This is called PP and therefore be careful with what Mr. Feijóo is doing, “he complained.
Minister Sánchez, in the assembly of the employers’ association SMEsin Barcelona, warned Feijóo that “it may be that in the PP they are used to this irregular circulation of envelopes, but in the Government of course not, much less the public workers of the Post Office”, reports Gabriel Ubieto.