Merida, December 15 (EFE). – She defines herself as a “good person”, “empathetic”, incapable of betraying anyone, but above all with a high dose of work and perseverance, two qualities with which the PSOE candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, fights both “the big lie” that influenced the hiring of David Sánchez and “the fraud” of the early elections.
Gallardo knows that there are many voters in “no man’s land”, that the legal dispute against the brother of the President of the Government is being “made public” by the right and the extreme right in order to “win” what they did not achieve in the elections, and that the trail of his predecessors Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra and Guillermo Fernández Vara weighs heavily. He uses these two instruments to achieve – and this is what he aims for – winning with an absolute majority.
In an interview with EFE, the former mayor of Villanueva de la Serena (2003-2024) and president of the Provincial Council of Badajoz (2015-2025) talks about the election campaign and what could happen to the polling stations after the election on December 21st.
Although the group Barón Rojo sings in one of their songs: “Whoever wins will lose,” when it comes to the voter, Gallardo believes that “the one who really loses is the one who doesn’t vote.” “When you decide, you can make a mistake, but you always feel involved and can make amends in the next elections,” he adds.
If “there are people,” he affirms, “who feel disoriented, living in no man’s land and feeling represented by none of us, it is because we have given a message that is not the one that citizens want to receive.”
“I look people in the eyes,” sang Germán Coppini, “because otherwise they might accuse you of not looking at them, of not listening to them and of not getting involved.”
Logically, he asks to vote for the PSOE, because in Extremadura, after more than two and a half years of María Guardiola’s government, “the rights achieved are at risk” in the areas of health, education, dependency, social justice and justice.
“The right has never treated Extremadura well,” says Gallardo, who criticizes the entire political class for often failing to understand the role of politics as the only tool for solving problems and as a guide to progress.
And this is where the differences lie with this instrument. “There are those who prefer that a society make do with what it has, and others think that the market needs to be regulated so as not to leave behind those who have nothing” to avoid injustice.
He reiterates that he joined the PSOE precisely to fight against injustices, which, he strongly claims, include the campaign of “harassment, destruction and dehumanization” launched against him by the extreme right and the right after a “false” complaint was allowed to be processed regarding the employment of David Sánchez when Gallardo was president of the Provincial Council of Badajoz, and whether he had any influence on it.
He admits that he understands that there are Extremadurans who go to the election with doubts about whether this will be true or not. “The only thing I can do is tell the citizens that they trust me… I will not disappoint them because everything that is said about me is absolutely false.”
“If I joined, I would be fighting against injustice. If I had taken a step back – not been a candidate – I would be showing the right how to use lies to penetrate the bowels of a left-wing party in order to destroy it.”
Gallardo is convinced that the PSOE will achieve “a great result” and will be “the containment dam of the right”. Asked about the day after 21D, he is sure that PP and Vox will agree on it if they can agree on it. “They argue a lot, but they love each other,” he says.
If the PSOE does not achieve the absolute majority sought by Gallardo, an agreement – if possible – with Unidas por Extremadura would be “a pact of progress”.
In his opinion, the early elections in Extremadura have several aspects: they were ordered by Feijóo to “try to strengthen his leadership”, Guardiola “wants the greatest possible abstention” and were therefore scheduled on Christmas dates; and a hasty flight forward due to their lack of dialogue. EFE
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