From Ukraine on a lightning trip to a 5th grade classroom of a public school in Badajoz (Lope de Vega) and, later, to a party event, to present the socialist candidate of this city in front of street bands and Carnival jokes . Pedro Sánchez is already in the run-up to the campaign -if he has ever ceased to be-, but above all he is stepping on the accelerator to try to improve his image and get closer to the citizens in this election year.

In the capital of Badajoz, yes, he did not even need ideologically related retirees, nor did he need to have coffee with selected young people inside a house, but instead surrounded himself with carnival goers, a very popular party in Badajoz. And the chosen murgas, how could it be otherwise, were the ones that have shown the most criticism of the city council in the recently held Carnival contest, a municipal government chaired in the last two years by a former leader of Ciudadanos , Ignacio Gragera, recently signed by the PP and who will be the next headliner of the popular.

With tight polls in Extremadura and, above all, in the city of Badajoz, the President of the Government (during the day) and Secretary General of the PSOE (in the afternoon) gave a meeting -in a venue with a full capacity of some 900 people- where he again attacked Alberto Núñez Feijóo, focused on that term for which he is beating him this week and who has given him a story: “Good people.” Deep down, Sánchez assured, in the PP “they talk about privileged people, and they defend them with votes against the tax on large financial institutions.” “If it is about strengthening the Welfare State, then they no longer talk about good people there,” he assured.

The parameters that he used in his speech, and that will surely be the basis of the campaign, were based on the question: “What government do we want? A government of the people that is in charge of day-to-day life, of ordinary people, or a government that defends the minority of privileges of people who have everything resolved.

In this way, social policies were – and will be during these months – the center of his speech: «We have raised the Minimum Interprofessional Wage by 47% and revalued pensions according to the CPI (…). We will be next to the workers and workers who deserve decent wages. In this sense, he opted for a country “that competes in quality, talent and rights; and not one that competes in job insecurity, as the PP wanted to do.

And another example of which he was congratulated: “It is an immense pride that our Government has invested more than 2,500 million euros in scholarships to benefit more than a million students in our country.” In this regard, he pointed out that his Executive has increased “by 62% the financing of public education so that our young people are trained.”

His first reference in the act was, on the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, to his visit to the Ukraine. “One of the things that moved me the most was the recognition that the Ukrainian Parliament gave our country,” he stressed, puffing up the “solidarity and commitment of Spain to a people who are being brutally attacked.” Along these lines, I remark that “the main weapon we have against Putin is the unity of Europe”, in a clear message to his government partner, United We Can.

Before, the president of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, asked him for “more financing” in the coming years for the AVE in Extremadura. And it is that to arrive on time from Ukraine you cannot use the Extremaduran railways, but the Falcon.

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