This Saturday has meant the unofficial start of the Galician pre-campaign with the simultaneous disembarkation of Pedro Sanchez and Yolanda Diaz. Both government partners They are aware of the importance for the left of this electoral event to try to snatch the absolute majority to the PP at a time of maximum political tension that will also have another round in the european elections.
Both have stressed the need to join forces and fueled the expectation of a possible change of political color in the Xunta which for now the polls do not predict. However, the division of the left vote threatens to weaken his strength at the polls. Even more so if we take into account the presence in this territory of the BNG, an ally of the coalition government in Congress.
The PP is also aware of the importance of the Galician event to reinforce the leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóowho left the Xunta in the hands of Alfonso Rueda to make the leap to national politics.
In this context, the President of the Government traveled to Santiago this Saturday to support the PSdeG candidate for the presidency of the Xunta, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, and stated that 2024 “is going to be the year of political change in Galicia.”
“We have an extraordinary leader in the figure of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro,” claimed Sánchez, who revealed that He had offered Besteiro to be a minister in the newly formed government. Sanchez said that Besteiro, despite the tension that could exist due to giving the President of the Government a refusal, resigned from being part of the central executive. “Look, Pedro, no, I aspire to be the next president of the Xunta,” was Besteiro’s response that Sanchez himself has revealed.
For her part, the vice president has chosen A Coruña to start the pre-campaign by making a direct appeal to the PSdeG and the BNG to “work together to win the Xunta” and highlighting that, despite the fact that “We have differences, we must transmit hope and the ability to work together to reach the Xunta the same as for the Government of Spain, because it is possible and necessary.”
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Díaz has emphasized the gala performance of Sumar Galicia, which also featured his spokesperson, Paulo Carlos Lopezthe recent incorporation of the former socialist Juan Diaz Villoslada and the feminist and social educator Rocio Nunezthat change in Galicia is “possible” for a government of “hope, enthusiasm, feminism, culture, the Galician language and a country in favor” and has given the results of the last general elections as an example.
“No one believed that we could win and they told us that it was done, that Feijóo was going to win and his vice president was going to be Abascal. It was not like that, friends, we have to believe in ourselves, we can win in Galicia!”, he emphasized in a speech in which he stressed that In the general elections there were 800,000 progressive votes and Feijóo’s last majority was about 627,000 supports. “We need to make the people of our country believe that we can win,” he said.