The calls for the movement speak volumes about the PSOE’s gloomy expectations in the elections in Extremadura, where the socialists have governed their entire lives since the restoration of democracy, except under the legislature of José Antonio Monago (2011-2015) and under María Guardiola, the current president of the Junta. All polling stations affirm that the government party, whose candidate Miguel Ángel Gallardo is being prosecuted for allegedly being swallowed up by the brother of Pedro Sánchez in the Badajoz Deputation, will obtain its worst result and around 20 scans, much lower than the current 28. pucherazo” that the PP candidate agitated in the home stretch of the campaign, in which he questioned the reliability of the democratic system behind the theft of a strong box of 14,000 euros and 124 votes in a postal office in a town of Badajoz, to try to activate Sunday for the progressive electorate.
“They call themselves democrats and warn against an alleged authoritarian drift of the dictatorship… Guardiola did not understand that his cousin, his driver, had been convicted of gender violence. He also did not understand that the mayor of Navalmoral de La Mata was attacking, or in this case accusing him at work, one of his advisors. But that was all, before the Civil Guard overcame all this, they knew that a robot of a few ordinary delinquents was a complete idiot”, Sánchez reproached him during the opening of the PSOE campaign, in which he called on Sunday for “all to vote socialists”. Abstention is Ferraz’s main fear, as he is unable to recognize the different positions within the PSOE. “We must move our hearts. Punto,” summed up a panel before the meeting, which brought together a thousand people at the Villanueva de la Serena Congress Center, where Gallardo served as mayor for 21 years (2003-2024).
“It’s the PP forever. Electoral results are only valid when they are victorious. And yet it is a pucherazo,” wrote Sánchez, who attributes the PP’s strategy to its attempt to divert attention from the cases of misfortune that happened in Genoa. sprint The end of a since calm campaign for Guardiola, who made the elections with the objective of obtaining the absolute majority so as not to have to depend on Vox and take advantage of socialist weakness. The campaign coincided with sexual abuse and corruption scandals of some of Sánchez’s biggest supporters since the primaries (José Luis Ábalos, Santos Cerdán and Francisco Salazar).
“They – through the PP – practice the technique of espejo. It is criticizing the adversary what they do themselves. We have seen Guardiola trying to hide his scandals of abuse and harassment at work by propagating the bubble of pucherazo”, insisted Sánchez, even if the PP has expressed to the maximum the worst criticisms of the PSOE since his departure to La Moncloa for the management of the complaints against Salazar, ignored for five months by those in charge of the gone. Antiacoso office.
The proof that the trial conditioned the socialist campaign is that Sánchez defended Gallardo for the “bulls” and the “zancadillas” after being prosecuted. The affectionate treatment surprised various leaders consulted, who are aware of it the next day if the result is catastrophic. “Dear Miguel Ángel, during all these months you have tried to lose your calm and you have not succeeded. Thanks to this, you will win this Sunday with the votes of the extremeños and extremeñas, thus becoming the next president of the Junta of Extremadura”, supported Sánchez. “You won the primaries and the activism of the socialist party confirmed you twice as leader of the extreme socialist party,” Sánchez said. The positions present at the Palace of Congresses took note of the way in which Sánchez approached Gallardo, in an act in the presence of the Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo; Rebeca Torró, secretary of the PSOE Organization; and Borja Cabezón, Ferraz engine room assistant.
The manner in which Gallardo assumed the role of deputy, which gave him the status of aforado, also angered the socialist electorate and fueled its demobilization. “I must make an effort so that people can have a decent government,” insisted the candidate. Meanwhile, the PP and Vox concentrated their last artillery in Badajoz, the most populated city in Extremadura -150,000 inhabitants, followed by Cáceres (100,000 inhabitants) and Mérida (60,000) – the socialist candidate took refuge in Villanueva de la Serena, a municipality of 25,000 inhabitants of which he was mayor for 21 years (2003-2024) and its moment of national fame with the aborted attempt to merge with the former Don Benito (38,000). “I have the same strength as when I run for mayor, I don’t give him the dudéis, and the guy, I can’t wait for him to trust you! I commit to leaving the skin for this time for four years, I want to be mayor of Extremadura of the moon”, he affirmed.
The start of the campaign in Extremadura coincided with a period as impartial as the spirit that reigned in the socialist ranks. The extremeño PSOE federation, accustomed to governing – the PP has never governed consecutive legislatures of the Junta – has mentalized to establish a new negative vote that will be good in the previous worst mark, the 28 deputies with which Guillermo Fernández Vara won the autonomous elections of 2023, tied with him PP but with bad votes, but this was insufficient to revalidate the Executive.
The scenario does not currently prevail, although the PSOE hopes that the PP will be defeated at least by an absolute majority, due to the attrition of accidental cases that have also occurred in its ranks. “This campaign has gone from bad to worse for the right. The PP in public, in front of the public, defends equality, but in this way, because the reality is that it is a threat to machismo, the shame of having a president who hired his cousin and who for eight months took her to Extremadura and was convicted of violence against gender”, declared Gallardo, focusing the shot on the case of Guardiola’s driver, whose conviction for gender-based violence was heard this week. “These are the lessons that Guardiola gave us throughout this campaign: protect the aggressor and re-victimize the victims by saying that these were light coercions. No! Violence against women is never light!”
Gallardo also expressed the case of a council of the PP of Navalmoral de la Mata, which had been harassed by the governor. “We, in the PSOE, have a strict tolerance towards the violent. And I am in solidarity with the council of Navalmoral who had to leave the PP… It seems that the government has been protecting him for 25 years now that Nevenka Fernández had to come under the influence of a mayor and the leaders protected him. Because Guardiola knew since December 1 that a Concejala was hosted and that the entire leadership of the PP protected the mayor of Navalmoral and they are not fallen in the face of shame. We know why Guardiola disappeared from the electoral campaign,” he concluded, trying to pay tribute to the last dark weeks of the PSOE.
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