The face to face was not the turning point that the socialists craved for the comeback of Pedro Sanchez in the polls. Without hiding this reality, the PSC, convinced that Catalonia is once again key to tipping the balance, has rushed to the rescue of the PSOE by increasing the decibels of its campaign against the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. In an angry tone unusual in his way of practicing politics, Salvador Illa has accused the popular candidate at a rally in Rubí of “lie like a scoundrel” during the debate and if “hostage” of vox.
A long list of reproaches for what they consider it seemed more like a “combat” that a debate to which the head of the PSC list, Meritxell Batetwho has defined Feijóo as the representative of “the worst of a PP” surrendered to the “ideas and ways of doing” of the extreme right. Special emphasis has been placed on the “indiscriminate use of the exacrable terrorist violence of ETA” despite the fact that the organization dissolved 12 years ago and the “inability” to represent women for their lack of “firm” commitment to the fight against sexist violence and the rights of the LGTBI collective.
And it is that the Catalan socialists consider that Feijóo played dirty when it comes to shaking off the responsibility of the agreements with Vox by putting the name of Miguel Angel White to charge against the agreements of the PSOE with Bildu – whom he has defined as the “political arm” of ETA – or taking out a document to ask Sánchez to commit to facilitating his investiture if he came first. “AND why didn’t he abstain in Gran Canaria, in Extremadura or the two times he won in Sánchez in 2019? Less wolves, little hood! Illa snapped.
I don’t know, the leader of the PSC has remained here, who has continued to gloss the profile exhibited by Feijóo, calling it “cold” and loaded with “cynicism” and whom he has accused of “torpedoing” the debate to turn it into the “discussion” that ended up being amid “lies and half-truths”, which he has attributed solely to the popular. His judgment is that “crossed red lines” before his “lack of arguments”.
Call to “sweep” in Catalonia
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On the other hand, it has claimed the “credibility” which in his opinion Sánchez retains after managing to “generate prosperity” in an adverse context due to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine and “protecting citizens” with his measures. Batet has added that, in addition, Sánchez “has risked it” to get Catalonia out of “the dark years and the wheel” of the ‘procés’ even knowing that “I could penalize you in other places” from Spain.
For this reason, the PSC has called on the Catalans to return the favor to the current Prime Minister and mobilize en masse so that the socialist vote “sweeps” the July 23th. The candidate has made a special appeal to women, whom she has asked to stop the advance of the right and the extreme right in the face of the real risk that their rights will be undermined. “That no group feels slighted and less free. We will not allow it”, he has concluded.