The leader of the PP says that being “in the environment of 150 deputies” would be “a magnificent result”
After a weekend of euphoria, in the middle of the campaign for the general elections and with the leader of the PP and other leaders speaking of an absolute majority, Alberto Núñez Feijóo moderates expectations. There are five days left to vote, three for the campaign and a debate between leaders that you will not attend. On Monday it had the first slip as a result of the entanglement of pensions and the CPI.
The strategy continues to be to concentrate the useful vote, but today’s message in ‘Espejo Público’ has gone one step further: “My problem is that in the provinces where we are playing 3-1 the vote is concentrated on the PP ballot. It can be a 3-1 in favor of the PP or a 2-2 tie with the PSOE. Because in those provinces the 5,000 that Vox has they will not serve to get a deputy”. This is the case of 10 provinces in Spain and there are another 8 that distribute five seats. The so-called small provinces in which the PP sees the key and needs to eat a piece of the Vox cake.
Feijóo once again insisted on the idea that “whoever really wants change & rdquor; will have to opt for the acronym of the PP, ensuring that everything else is a risk. He spoke of ruling alone, but did not use the unleashed optimism of the last days.
And he even lowered the public bar that he himself set at the beginning of the month when he assured that his objective “was not to get 150 seats & rdquor;, but “a sufficient majority that is greater than that figure & rdquor;. “From 160 seats we began to speak & rdquor ;, he assured him two weeks ago. This Tuesday, however, he lowered those expectations: “If the PP is in the environments of 150 seats, everything that goes up from there is a magnificent result. I know it’s hard, which doesn’t mean it’s not possible & rdquor ;, she said.
Just yesterday Narciso Michavila, president of GAD3, the PP’s leading pollster, stated in an interview on the ‘Cope’ channel that Genoa had to “forget about & rdquor; of an absolute majority. That prediction also coincided with Feijóo’s scuffle on TVE on account of pensions, which he ended up qualifying himself.
All the polls (except the CIS) show the PP as the winner. But the popular ones aspire to have an incontestable result that allows them to leave Vox out of a future government. And therein lies the main headache for Feijóo. As this newspaper publishes, the dialogue with the far-right party is practically nil and the affinity, with the rise of tougher ‘heavyweights’ within Santiago Abascal’s party, has diminished.
Vox tries resist the onslaught of the useful vote of the PP and Feijóo works hard to convince the voters that the only sure way to end the PSOE and Podemos government is to give him a clear majority. In the interview this Tuesday in ‘Espejo Público’ he did not hesitate to distance himself again: “I am not from Vox and I have nothing to do with Vox& rdquor;he said twice.
He reproached the PSOE for “its double standards & rdquor; for harshly criticizing the possibility of Vox entering a government and, at the same time, “does not gain anything by avoiding it & rdquor ;. “We have the possibility of having a strong government, without a coalition. But we need to unite the vote & rdquor ;, the conservative leader repeated without sparing himself in attacks on his rival on the right: “Vox says that he wants to govern with the PP, but asks for a vote that is not for the PP. If we concentrated the vote, everything seems to indicate that there would be an absolute majority of the center right. But when that vote is broken there is a risk that it will not join and we will return to sanchismo. Now, more weakened, and with Bildu, ERC and the strongest independentistas& rdquor;.