In the PSOE, they not only minimize the importance of the flight of votes towards Yolanda Díaz detected by the Sigma Dos survey for EL MUNDO prepared after the launch of Sumar, they also categorically rule out that it could occur. “Our voter is not yours”, they settle in Ferraz, disregarding the fact that 12.6% of the citizens who opted for their ballot in the 2019 general elections – more than 855,000 – now express their intention to support the vice president second in the elections that will be called at the end of this year.
Ferraz’s argument is that what they have detected in recent weeks with the irruption of the new political brand located to his left is an “illusion” that translates into a “greater mobilization of abstention” and that this “is positive for the progressive space”, although they do not have internal polls that specifically measure the impact that it can have on its own supporters. “On the contrary, on the contrary, on the contrary…”, they add when asked if they should start considering the also Minister of Labor as a rival at the polls instead of as a complement.
The Sigma Dos survey published this Monday -which was prepared just after the official presentation of Sumar on April 2- reflects a drop of two points in the intention to vote for the Socialists in just one month, which would mean a loss of six seats -from 97 to 91-. Díaz, for his part, would achieve 35 representatives if he ran alone, compared to eight for Podemos, while with a single candidacy both would reach 45, two more, although an insufficient figure in any case to reissue the current coalition government .
“What would be desirable for the entire puzzle to be completed, but I frame this desire within the utmost respect for the decisions of other parties,” insisted Pilar Alegría, spokesperson for the PSOE, where they have not stopped calling for the confluence of all that political space under the brand of the vice president because they are convinced that fragmentation harms them. “The attempt to unify those parties that are to our left has a very high motivation and mobilization component. It is positive,” she added.
At Ferraz’s headquarters they recognize that abstention is “a problem for the left”, which in their case, according to the Sigma Dos poll – which they question because “it does not show the primary data” – stands at 8.2% of undecided compared to 6.6% among those who in 2019 supported United We Can, 4.4% of those of the PP and 4.2% of those of Vox. Even so, they argue that there are still eight months to go before the general elections and that the first thing that will have to be analyzed are the results of the municipal and regional elections in which the “constellation of parties” united around Sumar will compete against each other in most of the elections. plazas.
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