The PSOE of Pedro Sánchez tries to summarize the catastrophe of Extremadura in these elections and does not see that it can be extrapolated to the rest of the elections that will take place in the coming months, starting with Aragon, where the prospects are not really encouraging. The analysis made by the leadership of the PSOE is that its electorate has stayed at home, despite the fact that PP and Vox represent 60% of the votes in what has always been its great stronghold, and it fundamentally attributes this to the situation of Miguel Ángel Gallardo and the “dirty game” of the right, but it considers that this has nothing to do with the management of the government, which faces every week a trickle of information about cases of corruption and, in recent days, also to cases of harassment within the government. PSOE. “We are stronger than ever,” repeated the spokesperson, Montserrat Mínguez.
“It is obvious, this has been a bad result for the PSOE. It is time to reflect and let the PSOE colleagues from Extremadura do their reading and make the appropriate decisions,” Mínguez began during the press conference that followed the executive meeting. Sánchez’s management thus attributes responsibility to Gallardo, who will resign this afternoon after meeting with the regional executive, according to elDiario.es. “The Extremadurians said we had a bad candidate,” they told the management.
From there, the story goes so far as to accuse the PP of having made Vox, the big winner of the election night, grow bigger with its “whitewashing”. “The results of yesterday’s elections clearly show one thing: the PP is nobody without Vox and Feijóo has no future without Abascal,” Mínguez said.
They cling to the burning point of Ferraz, where they consider that in national elections Feijóo would not obtain enough seats to govern, because any agreement would require the support of the PNV or the Junts, which for the moment they consider impossible. “They will be happy because they defeated the PSOE in Extremadura, but it is a serious mistake because the PP only needs the PSOE to perform poorly. We tell them that we are going to continue working so that Spain succeeds. The government is needed more than ever,” added Mínguez.
Causes: “dirty game” and no municipal push
“A government of Pedro Sánchez suits Spain well. Spain needs a government of Pedro Sánchez more than ever”, reiterated the spokesperson, who recognized that in this country “there is the fear of Vox”, but that it is the PSOE which is bypassing it at the national level with its policy of “containment barrier”: “Faced with its cuts, the climate, the denial of feminism and gender violence… faced with this, government of progress.” “If the reading made of it (the PP) is the beginning of the end of the sanchismwe’re going to laugh, what more could I want. He sanchism, who wants to sell it as this derogatory word, this sanchism He is the one who moves Spain forward. “He is stronger and more alive than ever,” he concluded.
And what is the analysis of the Extremadura debacle? What the socialist leadership analyzes is that it has failed to mobilize its voters back home, and it attributes this largely to the fact that this is the first time that these elections have taken place without municipal elections, where the socialists have great strength. “This vote is recoverable,” say sources in the socialist leadership.
And the other major cause they find is a “dirty game” which they attribute to the right and “a campaign of disinformation and attacks which have a very significant impact”. In this case, the prosecution of Gallardo for the alleged “cork” of Sánchez’s brother through the Provincial Delegation of Badajoz. “The truth will come out in the judicial process of Mr. Gallardo and others that we have underway. The truth will come out and put everyone in their place,” said Mínguez, who considers that Gallardo has been “dehumanized”, as the socialists denounce in the case of Sánchez.
What they are trying to frighten within the federal leadership is the specter of a change of cycle and punishment for Sánchez in the elections, that is, they argue that what happened in Extremadura cannot be extrapolated to other elections, such as in Aragon, despite the fact that panic has begun to spread in the socialist federations. “These are other regional elections. We won in each of them and what is clear for the next elections is where Mr. Azcón was,” he said of the Aragonese president, who followed the count of Extremadura in Genoa with the PP. “Maybe the one who should be afraid is Azcón, because he already has the example of what happened to Guardiola,” Mínguez said.
This is another of the premises that explode in the PSOE: that the PP brought forward the elections to get rid of its dependence on Vox, but did not succeed while the far right is on the rise. “Pedro Sánchez stays for a long time and the Socialist Party stays for much longer,” the spokesperson concluded.
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