Borrell rolls up his sleeves in the final stretch of the PSOE campaign for the European elections

Josep Borrell was presented in Vallecas as the Mbappé of socialism. His emergence into the European campaign coincided with the announcement of the signing of the French player, who arrives with an empty service record at Real Madrid compared to the Catalan politician, who five years ago achieved 43% of the votes in that Madrid neighborhood. votes. They were ten points more than the national result of the PSOE which, with 33%, won a victory that even surpassed Pedro Sánchez’s result a month before. And the high representative of the EU has been one of the great assets of his career: he supported him when the socialist leadership turned its back on him in 2016, he led the demonstration against the independence movement in 2017 and, after being part of his first Government and reaping that result, has been one of the main faces of Spain in Brussels and the world.

Unlike what happened in the Catalan elections, Borrell has now rolled up his sleeves to campaign for the Socialists in the final stretch of the June 9 fight. Those of the PSC did not see him in Catalonia and, beyond his agenda as head of European diplomacy, his reluctance about the amnesty explains the absence of the person who ruled himself out as the headliner for these elections. “Everyone understands that I have a job that I cannot leave,” he justified in April, when many socialist leaders saw him as the ideal candidate. He now defends that socialists need someone “younger.”