10:06 a.m.
Sánchez accuses the PP of using a referendum in Catalonia as a “scarecrow” and describes the independence movement as an “outdated ideology”
The PSOE candidate, Pedro Sánchez, insisted this Friday during an interview on Spanish Television that while he is president of the Government, referendums on self-determination will not be held in Catalonia or the Basque Country. “It is an old debate that the right wing always takes as a scarecrow to see if it can scare any socialist voter, when in reality the referendums have been held with the PP in government”, he said.
The President of the Government has also described the independence movement as an ideology of the past. “It is an outdated ideology from the political and efficiency point of view. The pandemic has taught us that we are facing global challenges that require common responses. Not shut ourselves in a small corner and see if we have a few more powers ”, he stated. Sánchez has also assured that, in his opinion, if a coalition government with Sumar is reissued, “the internal noise will probably not be repeated”
inform Jose Enrique Monrosi.
9:54 a.m.
Feijóo equates his years of vacations and trips with Marcial Dorado to Sánchez’s greeting to Delcy Rodríguez at the EU-CELAC summit
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has defended himself against the photos that testify to his relationship with the smuggler Marcial Dorado, equating them to those that Pedro Sánchez or Yolanda Díaz may have with “dictators” in reference to Latin American leaders or political leaders. And even with the protocol greeting with two kisses between the president and the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, at the start of the EU-CELAC summit.
“I expected nothing more than for the president to use this garbage to try to discredit the political adversary. I am not going to talk about photos, because it seems inappropriate to me and because I would fall into their own trap if I took the newspaper library of the photos of Sánchez or Yolanda Díaz are there, with dictators, with people accused of drug trafficking, people who could not enter the EU because they were prohibited from entering the Schengen area, and that, nevertheless, they were treated in Barajas [ha dicho sobre la visita del exministro José Luis Ábalos a la vicepresidenta venezolana, que un juez aclaró que no podía considerarse que hubiera pisado suelo español sino que estuvo en zona de tránsito internacional durante una escala]. people whom he kisses now in a public and notorious way now at the CELAC summit”, Feijóo defended himself in an interview in Cope.
Feijóo has hidden behind his good results in Galicia after those photos were published with Marcial Dorado, who has said that he was a smuggler and not a drug trafficker at the time he met him, although he assures that he was unaware of his activities, despite the fact that he had been even arrested and there were dozens of news items in the media about it. “Galicians know very well the difference between knowing a person or having a commercial relationship or a relationship of complicity with that person,” said the PP candidate, who shared trips and vacations with Marcial Dorado in the 1990s.
“This is in a summary of the Hearing and they make it clear that there are many people with photos with this gentleman from all political parties and no politician was even called to testify in relation to this gentleman’s pending issues,” it has been justified.
inform Irene Castro.
We remind you of other related news about Feijóo and his relationships:
9:32 a.m.
Sánchez: “The PSOE is in a position to win and be the first force”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has been interviewed this Friday on TVE. During the interview, Sánchez has defended the chances that his party has of winning the elections, except that all the polls except the CIS have pointed to a victory for the PP. “The PP is broken, the PSOE is in a position to win the elections and be the first force,” he assured.
Sánchez has pointed out, in fact, that the coalition with Unidas Podemos is a strong point for victory. “The management has been good and it is one of the main arguments for which the PSOE will win,” he defended.
9:21 a.m.
Feijóo supports ultra Meloni as part of the European PP
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has shown himself inclined to have the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, form part of the European PP. The far-right politician has campaigned for Vox ahead of this 23J, with the appearance in an act of Santiago Abascal. “It depends on Mrs. Meloni’s attitude, but I think, from what my friend Antonio Tajani tells me [Forza Italia, ya en el PPE] It is taking steps towards a position that in the European PP worries us much less than it did when she took office as prime minister”, he assures In an interview with ‘El Mundo’. “It would be good for the EU if Meloni ended up in the PPE, yes,” he concluded.
“The time for the patriots has come,” Meloni assured a week ago at a Vox event. The European extreme right, including the European Prime Minister, trusts that Vox will play a relevant role in Spanish politics after 23J. However, Feijóo is not the first time he has winked at that extreme right. A few days ago he came to normalize the coalitions between the right and the extreme right in Europe.
8:46 a.m.
The period to vote by mail ends today at 2:00 p.m.
The period to vote by mail in the general elections of July 23 ends this Friday at 2:00 p.m., after the decision of the Central Electoral Board (JEC) to attend to the request of the Post Office and give a few more hours of margin to be able to deposit the postal vote.
For these elections, which are going to take place in the middle of the summer holidays, the record for postal vote requests has been broken. Specifically, there were 2,622,808 people who requested it.
8:25 a.m.
What we expect from Friday: last campaign rallies, interviews and end of term in Correos
The parties will cast the rest today on the last day of the campaign. They will speed up their opportunities to ask for the vote and the mobilization of their constituents before the elections on Sunday. Our agenda for the day is marked by it.
- Of the four candidates, Feijóo is the only one who concludes his campaign outside of Madrid, in A Coruña. Pedro Sánchez will hold his last campaign rally in Getafe. Santiago Abascal will do the same in the Plaza de Colón. Yolanda Díaz bets on a festive act in the Tierno Galván park in the capital.
- The vote by mail will be the protagonist until the last day, since the Central Electoral Board has extended the term to be able to deposit it in the post offices until 2:00 p.m. this Friday
- The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, is interviewed on TVE.
To all this will be added acts prior to the closing that the candidates will carry out and that you can read right now and in elDiario.es.
8:11 a.m.
Good morning! The end of the campaign, interview with Yolanda Díaz and the transition from hate to love between PP and Vox
Good morning! Today is a special day for everyone. The electoral campaign is over. We will live the last campaign rallies, the die will be cast. The parties (and the newsrooms) will have a rest day tomorrow after the madness of the last month. But that will be another day, today we start loaded with interesting topics.
- Ignacio Escolar interview with Yolanda Díaz, Sumar candidate: “If the progressives mobilize, barbarism will not govern.” Díaz has raised the tone in the last week of the campaign and this is appreciated in the interview: “Feijóo is really dangerous because he has no scruples, because he does politics with lies and because he has no project for the country.”
- We have also interviewed Félix Bolaños, Minister of the Presidency. “Women risk not being the bargaining chip of an ultra government and Catalonia, the basis of coexistence,” he said during the interview conducted by Esther Palomera.
- With whom we have not been able to talk has been with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Despite the fact that this medium requested an interview with him, the PP candidate has vetoed elDiario.es and other media that are uncomfortable for him in his round of media.
- We have not been able to ask him, therefore, about his relationship with Abascal. A relationship that has moved from hate to love since the alliance between the two is necessary for the right to govern.
We start with these themes, but there will be many more who fall for this minute by minute. Follow us throughout the day to not lose detail.
