With all this about the last parliamentary debate on the amnesty law, the recognition of Palestine, Taylor Swift and Real Madrid, the European electoral campaign is going to end without us having found out that it had begun. Almost better, because we are consuming choices beyond our mental possibilities. These are the fourth elections this year, of which we are not even halfway through, and each time it was said that they were essential for what was going to happen next. Then, not so much.
Don’t leave yet. There’s still more. The first year has passed since the electoral call that made the July 23 appointment possible. It is now legally possible to repeat the play. That is enough for the Popular Party, which had an alarm set to remind it of the day. Automatically, he began to demand that they be convened as soon as possible so that citizens can give their opinion on the amnesty law. What amounts to a camouflaged referendum. These anti-establishment people know no limits to their offensive against the Constitution.
In order to leave public opinion with its mouth open, it is difficult to find better examples than those offered by Alberto Núñez Feijóo. At his O Pino rally on Saturday, he was so happy to have Ursula Von der Leyen close that he lost his temper when referring to the July 23 elections, “where we won the elections and they didn’t let us govern.”
Didn’t they let them govern? But this is very serious. Who? The Supreme Court? The civil Guard? He will not refer to the other parties, because none of them were obliged to lend their support, especially if another candidate won the investiture with the necessary votes. So much desire to teach students lessons about the Constitution and the political system and it turns out that the leader of the opposition does not even know how a parliamentary system works.
But to the important thing. Ursula had come to Spain to see Alberto. Practically, a date. In Galicia, no less. She allowed Alfonso Rueda to pronounce several phrases in English so that she could understand him. Let’s say that the intention of the president of the Xunta was far above language quality. “We are going to eat octopus, listening to the pipers and enjoying very much.” There we are, Rueda, living the crazy life in O Pino to go blind with octopus. Nothing like that had been heard since Ana Botella and her café con leche. Feijóo didn’t even try.
In the previous legislature, the PP did not hide its discontent with Von der Leyen’s attitude towards Pedro Sánchez. The president of the Commission has the obligation to work with the heads of Government and reach agreements with them. Be kind to them and be happy with their successes, especially if they benefit the EU. She had neither the time nor the desire to be the speaker for the PP’s attempts to announce that the arrival of European funds was in danger or that Spanish democracy had come to an end.
But in the campaign you have to row in favor of your people and he agreed to come to Spain. After all, if she is in love now with someone like Giorgia Meloni, at least she should give Feijóo some love.
Núñez Feijóo, Von der Leyen and an octopus at the O Pino pilgrimage on Saturday.
Von der Leyen had to say something to please the PP and she did it. “I know there is concern in Europe about the rule of law. Let me be very clear: the European Commission, as guardian of the treaties, has the task of defending those values.” He pledged that the Commission will act to protect its citizens when those values “are in danger.” It is the least that the president of the Commission can say. She’s not going to say otherwise.
Always willing to stumble over the same stone every day, the PP assumed that this time it will get the European institutions to collaborate with its attempt to delegitimize Sánchez. It is the 89th chapter of the series ‘Europe will stop Sánchez’.
In the end, business as usual will happen. There is nothing more important for the EU right now than the war in Ukraine and the European Commission knows that Sánchez is a valuable asset in supporting kyiv.
The balloon that the PP had inflated before the campaign has been deflating. These European women had a very clear horizon. Without the mobilization achieved in July 2023, it was unlikely that the PSOE could aspire to win in June of this year. With the right so excited that it could hardly pass an anti-doping test, a five-point advantage could not be ruled out and could even be suspected of being greater very soon after the approval of the amnesty law.
The PP let time pass in the Senate so that the final ratification of the law in Congress would coincide exactly with the European campaign. As a garnish, they served Begoña Gómez’s head on another plate, so in her wettest dreams, winning by between five and ten points seemed like the perfect scenario. Felipe González had enthusiastically joined the anti-Sanchista front. The PP hoped that it would serve to make its never-fulfilled prophecy come true, which says that PSOE voters would abandon Sánchez for the concessions to the independentists.
What happened was not in their plans. The polls that had predicted an absolute majority for the sum of the PP and Vox in July and that tend to give excessive priority to the PP offer a panorama that will allow Sánchez to cope with the result. Both Sigma 2 and GAD3 predict a PP advantage of around three points. It wouldn’t exactly be a landslide victory. That difference between both parties It was almost nine points in January and from 8.4 in March in the case of the Sigma 2 survey.
The reasons could be many, not only the PP’s ability to deceive itself. Perhaps the PP has not lost electoral support in spurts. Perhaps it is all because the socialist electorate was not very motivated at the beginning of the year. Perhaps the kitchen of those surveys was as poorly done as those of the CIS. Or it is also possible that the PP has failed in its attempt to bleed Vox dry.
Santiago Abascal’s party lost 700,000 votes in July and stayed there. In the Basque and Catalan regional elections, it did not collapse, as the PP had led some media to believe it would happen.
Just in case, Abascal multiplies his racist messages. It’s sad to say, but he believes they are his life insurance when it comes to maintaining electoral support. He may not be totally wrong.
Meanwhile, Pedro Sánchez is no longer the depressed and haggard guy who wrote the letter of his non-resignation. It is seen that the campaigns put him at a boiling point. Up to levels sanxiandogs. Against those who say that Spain is sinking, this is what he said on Friday at a rally in Los Alcázares, Murcia: “But if we are growing more than the (EU) average, if we are creating more jobs than ever in our country. If Spain is the Taylor Swift of European economies!”
He passed through so many towns that he almost changed provinces. How to tell him what he says ‘Shake It Off’ lyrics –“the haters gonna hate”–, he starts singing it dressed in sequins at the next rally.
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