Madrid, Jul 10 (EFE).- Leaders of the PSOE and the PP have heated up the face-to-face this Monday between the candidates of both parties, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, while in the background the disagreement between popular and Vox in Murcia that has led to the second defeat of Fernando López Miras.
With Sánchez and Feijóo in custody preparing the debate organized by Atresmedia, the campaign has gone down a step and has been populated by second swords, among which the Vox candidate, Santiago Abascal, has appeared to say in an interview on Antena 3 that the face to face is due to “a strategic decision of this house, which is committed to bipartisanship.”
MURCIA TESTS THE PP-VOX AGREEMENTS
On the star issue of the pre-campaign and so far this campaign, Abascal has indicated that he will negotiate a possible pact after 23J with the PP “without proposing blackmail or red lines”, but likewise “without accepting them” and without allowing his voters are disrespected, as he believes has happened up to now in Murcia.
Quite the opposite of how the PP sees it, which has accused Vox of activating “the countdown” for an electoral repetition in Murcia after joining their votes to the PSOE and rejecting the investiture of their candidate in the second vote, which Feijóo’s They consider playing “the game of Pedro Sánchez” in the middle of the electoral campaign.
SÁNCHEZ ARRIVES “STRONG” AT THE DEBATE
Among the members of the Government who on this fourth day of the campaign have returned to the electoral tables, the Minister of Finance and Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has assured that Sánchez arrives at the debate “strong” after having prepared it in a “meticulous”.
He has said that he hopes that the leader of the PP does not go with “false news” to provoke the confrontation and has criticized his “scorched earth” policy, while other ministers have pointed out that the debate will be “decisive”.
“HUMILITY” VERSUS “PRIDE”
In the PP, the party’s general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, has stated that Núñez Feijóo goes to the Atresmedia set “calm and with exhaustive knowledge of what it means to govern Spain.”
Along the same lines, the general coordinator of the PP, Elías Bendodo, has said that the face to face will contrast the model of “arrogance” that, in his opinion, represents the socialist leader and that of “humility” and the “street ” who, in his opinion, embodies Núñez Feijóo.
PROPOSALS TO ADD ON AIR TRANSPORTATION
Since she will not be in the debate, the coalition led by the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has continued to present her program, in this case her intention to eliminate internal flights that have a rail alternative of less than three hours, which would affect , among others, to the Barcelona-Madrid route.
This has been highlighted by Sumar’s campaign spokesman, Ernest Urtasun, who has also indicated that his formation wants to “limit private ‘jets’.
AGREED REFERENDUM
From Barcelona, the head of the Sumar-En Comú Podem list, Aina Vidal, has specified that she wants the dialogue table to be used to endorse agreements on infrastructure and that there is an “agreed referendum on the horizon”, although she has recognized that this “It will not happen in fifteen days.”
In this regard, the head of the list of the PDeCAT-Espai CiU to the Congress for Barcelona, Roger Montañola, has ruled out that Catalonia can vote in 2024 on a new political agreement resulting from the dialogue table, as Yolanda Díaz has promised.
FIFTH DAY OF CAMPAIGN
Once the face-to-face has passed, the candidates will return to the filming track, with that of the PP in Ciudad Real, that of Vox in Malaga and that of Sumar in Madrid, in an act on feminism.
For his part, the President of the Government will leave the campaign to attend the NATO Summit in Lithuania.
Eduardo Sobreviela
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