In mid-May, the PSOE believed that they were going “up.” They verified that the right-wing voters were already mobilized and that theirs were “diesel”, that they were going to more and that the horizon was positive because they would be gaining ground thanks to the undecided and the abstentionists. But the results of the municipal and regional elections have reflected what the CIS already anticipated in the middle of the campaign: the PSOE, despite a campaign marked out with advertisements and investments led by Pedro Sánchez, did not mobilize. “We need to mobilize more than we have done on this occasion,” they admit in La Moncloa.
Pedro Sánchez decided at dawn from Sunday to Monday to terminate the legislature and his Government to advance the elections with a double objective: to stop the bleeding of votes and to prevent an internal rebellion in the PSOE that was fueled on 28-M. The socialist leader has asked his people to “work to win” because when they see the numbers, his analysis is that “the PSOE has lost institutional power” but that in the national vote of the municipalities it has remained three points behind the PP: 31, 5% compared to 28.1%. “It is not an excessive stick in the face of the generals,” they say in Ferraz. His calculations are that half a million voters stayed home. “You have to get them back.” “Surely we have needed a greater advance in the mobilization”, has recognized Isabel Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Government, in an interview in La Sexta.
“There is a lot of room for recovery,” said Rodríguez, in a positive message towards his team in the face of a comeback. “There is a social majority that we are sure is going to demonstrate at the polls. Spain is not going to resign itself to the extreme right roaming freely through all the institutions. And it must be stopped at the polls.” The purpose is twofold: on the one hand, to try to concentrate the vote of the left, in view of the fact that on 28-M the fragmentation of the left prevented it from adding in many places – “That the vote be concentrated in the PSOE”, they are already asking ” – And on the other hand, that his people do not stay at home: “There are many people left to mobilize in Spanish society who do not identify with that right and that extreme right that Feijóo and Abascal represent.”
them or us. It is the approach with which La Moncloa is launching into the general elections to be held on July 23 in search of that mobilization. The President of the Government and his team believe that a campaign must be raised in terms of polarization: either an Executive that raises the minimum wage, for example, or one with the PP and Vox ministers. The framework is already launched from the presidential complex: “Combat the wave of reactionary populism” that “devastates Spain”, which they identify with Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal.
Although in the PSOE there are leaders and positions who consider that the strategy of “excessive confrontation” has not gone well, it is admitted that now it is what they are obliged to propose. The message is that Feijóo “has assumed” the “populisms that are sweeping countries around us” and that the leader of the PP and Vox “are the same.”
Pilar Alegría, Minister of Education and spokesperson for the PSOE, has also insisted on the idea that the elections will serve to “verify if this “ultra-conservative wave” has also reached Spain, so it is “important that citizens clarify what they want”. because, for the PSOE, there are still “challenges that we have to face and policies yet to be deployed.” “We presented ourselves with this decision to win and to be able to continue developing progressive policies,” she deepened.
Sánchez himself seconded this strategy. In a message on his social networks, he has assessed the drop in inflation in Spain to 3.2%. “The social democratic measures work and benefit the social majority of this country. That is what the extreme right cannot support.”
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