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“Bruce Sprinter” in Spain, the fastest rock singer in the 100 meter dash. Those of Betis want Sevilla to win in Europe. Murcians become La Rioja. In Badajoz, he said that he was in Andalusia. In Valencia, he came out to say that it was Barcelona. He mistook the AVE for the Falcon. The “impressive” light of Cádiz dilated his pupils. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has had a campaign full of comic moments and missteps caused by how much he suffers when he does not have a role in front of him. And sometimes even with papers. Those attending his rallies might have been tempted to comment: look at his pupils, I want what that guy drinks. Even if it’s not legal.
The same has been a tribute to Siniestro Total, the band from Vigo that began its farewell concert in Madrid with an energetic “Good night, Santander”.
Feijóo’s first national campaign in which his neck is played has not been exactly a success. He had to improvise. The economy left him stranded. The script that he had been preparing since the summer with a “very deep” economic crisis that was going to make things easier for him ended up in the recycling container.
He only had the option of adopting the manual by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. The moderate who came from Galicia, the moderate Juanma Moreno, her Andalusian friend of hers, and the moderate Borja Sémper as party spokesperson ended up dancing to the rhythm that Ayuso has been playing since the pandemic.
It may not go bad. Narciso Michavila, president of the GAD3 polling company, has convinced the Popular Party that the bloc of the right has victory within reach in the Valencian Community and Aragon. As has been said for months, what happens in the first community will condition the interpretation of the results. Once the PSOE has suffered a hemorrhage of votes in Andalusia that it does not seem capable of stopping, if the left loses Valencia, it remains in the bones. Other outcomes, such as those in the cities of Barcelona and Seville, will be important, but they will not have as much weight in the headlines.
In any case, in the end it may turn out that a few thousand votes in two regions and two cities will make the difference between victory and failure. It can also happen that the headlines do not let us see the forest. Of course, in Madrid the trees will not be seen because Almeida has already taken care of them.
In a country where surveys show that Spaniards are above all concerned about inflation and where more than 60% of people say that their personal economic situation is good or very good, according to the CIS, the PP put all its chips in the box of the national crusade against sanchismo.
“Between sanchismo or Spain, Spain,” Feijóo said at the final campaign rally in Madrid, a slogan with unmistakable aromas from Miguel Ángel Rodríguez’s factory of ideas. Those who are not with the PP are the anti-Spain that is riding again. Those who are not “good Spaniards”, as Feijóo had already said in the Senate. The good ones and the bad ones. The manifest destiny of the nation is at stake at the polls. Because we already know that the Saracens came and beat us to death, that God helps the bad when they outnumber the good.
The PP opted for paths already traveled in this convulsed legislature. Ayuso was there to remember him on May 18: “ETA is alive, it is in power, it lives on our money, it wants to destroy Spain.” Did ETA win the elections in this country in 2019? Why didn’t the media cover it then?
As the nationalist left has done on other occasions, Bildu lent a hand to the right by placing seven murderers on their electoral lists, which were later withdrawn. How could the PP waste that gift from the north. The television program ‘Polònia’ made people laugh, but the political advantage went to the PP.
Therefore, Bildu must be outlawed, proposed Ayuso. Or at least study it, as if something like that was not clear after reading decisions from the Constitutional Court or the Supreme Court. Actually, Génova said later that it was not legally possible, but Ayuso did not care about that. He wants Vox voters to give him an absolute majority in Madrid. He cannot get less than Juanma Moreno in Andalusia. He spends his life on it.
“Ayuso does not have a democratic culture,” Consuelo Ordóñez, sister of the councilor assassinated by ETA, replied. “How can you say that ETA is alive? Is ETA the same killing as it is now? No. Saying these atrocities, which are very painful for the victims, is disrespecting their own murdered comrades, those who died for that word they She likes it so much: freedom.”
Ordóñez and his association, Covite, dedicate themselves every day to remembering the police, civil guards, military or politicians who were assassinated by ETA. Will such disavowal have any impact on PP voters? None. It’s all worth it. If graves have to be looted to attack the government, it is done. There are shovels for everyone.
Salvador Sostres had already written it in April in an ABC column with praise for Ayuso that was also an undisguised warning to Feijóo: “He is in our war. He markets like an Arab, entangles the Catholics, he has a Jewish soul and nobody wins it stabbed in the back. It is wild and pizpireta”. It is a war and Ayuso is the best with stab wounds. How is he not going to win in Madrid with those credentials.
Only the crisis caused by the racist insults to Vinícius upset the PP, which preferred to look the other way. “Spain is not a racist country,” Feijóo and Ayuso said in chorus. And they continued to do their thing. We are all Vinícius and therefore we should not feel concerned by these attacks.
The campaign did not take place in the coordinates provided by the PSOE in another example of the failure of the Moncloa strategy since the beginning of 2023. It seems that Pedro Sánchez’s mojo only works outside of Spain. In recent weeks, he has dedicated himself to pledging public money for multiple destinations. An effective political strategy cannot be put together with just pasta. If that were the case, governments would always win elections.
To the left of the PSOE, a space has always been reserved for fratricidal struggles, as is their trademark. Podemos continued preparing its future negotiations with Yolanda Díaz with the complaint against the “cuqui left” in relation to Más Madrid. It is strange that the party chooses that confrontational terrain in a community in which it obtained 7.2% of the votes in 2021 (Más Madrid had 17%). If that difference holds, what conclusions will be drawn about the type of left that voters prefer?
The last gift for the PP campaign came from far to the south. The alleged electoral fraud with voting by mail in Melilla is a very serious case, the most worrying that has occurred in an electoral process in Spain in decades. Other minor cases of possible illegalities were added, which have occurred before in this country and which have almost always been nipped in the bud. But in the Almería City Council of Mojácar there are socialist leaders involved and the PP saw the open sky. ABC featured a photo of Minister Félix Bolaños at a rally in that town a few days before on its front page. Aha, surely he had gone there to plan everything. Investigative journalism, ACME brand.
The PP has also relied on its history of accusations of fraud in some localities -such as the PSOE, local cases of little national importance-, not to mention the hauling of elderly people from residences in Galicia with the ballot well protected by the nuns or the financing outside the law that spread as an official practice in the Valencian Community.
The response of the PP is now different. It is about planting doubt about the cleanliness of the electoral process, as a Supreme Court prosecutor did who resorted to Indra’s hoax at the meeting of the association of conservative prosecutors with Feijóo.
Everything elevated to the maximum expression in the final rally of the PP. “Sánchez is going to leave as he arrived, with an attempted punch,” said Ayuso. He was referring to the pathetic attempt to place a ballot box behind a curtain in the tumultuous Federal Committee of the PSOE in 2016. All of this was of no use to Sánchez, because he was forced to resign. As a punch, he left a lot to be desired.
The PP took care of extending the evident stain of what happened in Melilla to all of Spain. “I think there is a plot to buy votes in these elections in Spain, to buy votes by mail that involves the PSOE or its partners,” said Esteban González Pons. The extreme right moved the word “pucherazo” on Twitter to establish suspicions. And that a year ago the PSOE and the PP competed among themselves to affirm that Spain is a “full democracy”.
It is not worth denouncing the ideology of the opposite. As has been seen in the United States with the agitation and propaganda of the Republican Party and its media allies, the political rival must be described as an enemy of freedom and democracy, willing to even contaminate the ballot box to obtain his goals.
If there’s no evidence of a national conspiracy, that’s not a problem either. The important thing is to sow fear of massive fraud, in the same way that in the pandemic it was even said that the measures with which to prevent the terrible number of deaths from continuing to increase were a way of endangering the rights of citizens .
Some journalists have complained bitterly about the “mud” of the campaign, about the verbal violence existing in the Spanish political confrontation. They are right, but they have no reason to be surprised. It is the inevitable culmination of the extreme polarization that has taken place in this legislature.
We have come full circle in our progressive and persistent approach to US policy and its worst vices. We are already like them. It’s not all of our fault but we will all pay the consequences.
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