Madrid (EFE).- The die is cast. It’s over. Two weeks later the campaign comes to an end. Fifteen days that end almost, almost, as they began. With the crossed lies, the removable tolls, the uncomfortable photos of the past, the law of yes is yes, or the abuse of the Falcon, like electoral battering rams.
The Socialists, led by Pedro Sánchez, started out depleted of strength after the debacle experienced in May in the regional and municipal elections, but now, at least in public, they trust the “comeback”.
In Ferraz they say that they have gone “from less to more” while Pedro Sánchez himself has warned that “even the tail is all bull”.
His “pool” is that the PSOE is the first force and Sumar, third, which will allow “another four years of progressive coalition government.”
In contrast, the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo went to the polls with the inertia of his victory in May and the wind in favor in the polls.
With some ups and downs, all the polls have maintained that trend. The PP would clearly win, although everything indicates that it will need some kind of collaboration from Vox to be able to invest Feijóo.
That, as long as the PSOE does not facilitate its investiture with an abstention, which is highly unlikely, at least with the current protagonists.
Avoiding risks, Feijóo raised a conservative campaign, with only one face-to-face debate with Sánchez from which he came out stronger according to analysts.
However, the PP candidate has once again been persecuted by those photos from the 90s with Marcial Dorado, for which he has had to respond day in and day out.
Photos that always come back
This Friday, the PP candidate was forced to give explanations again for his relationship with Dorado and he has done so once again raising controversy.
Feijóo confessed that when he met him, Dorado “had been a smuggler, never a drug trafficker” and that “never, ever” had “nothing to do with the final activity of this man.”
A relationship that Sánchez sees as “disturbing” as long as there is no “clear” response from Feijóo, while for his Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, it has been shown that the PP leader knew of Dorado’s illegal activities since he has acknowledged that he knew that he had been a smuggler.
Even the ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras, without much prominence in the campaign, has intervened this time in the controversy and has considered that the fact that Feijóo tries to excuse himself by distinguishing between a drug trafficker or a smuggler “gives a good idea of his ethical and moral level”.
Removable tolls
Feijóo took it from Sánchez in the debate, but there was no response. Days later, the general director of Traffic, Pere Navarro, warned that tolls would have to be paid on the highways in 2024 due to an agreement with Brussels. Hours later he was discredited in a whirlwind by the Government, which categorically denied that a payment was going to be imposed for the use of State highways.
Despite this denial, days later it was the European Commission itself that recalled that the recovery plan, as proposed by Spain and approved by the commission, “includes the commitment to adopt a law on sustainable mobility and transport financing by December 2023”.
Sánchez, however, has reiterated this Friday that no toll will have to be paid for the use of the highways despite the insistence of Brussels that the recovery plan proposed by Spain included a commitment in this regard.
The president has recognized that this plan incorporated this possibility, but has specified that it has been withdrawn in the addendum that is being renegotiated with the European Commission.
Clarifications that Feijóo does not believe, who has stated that personally he would not know where to go if the EU had disavowed him with the tolls, as, he denounces, it has happened to Sánchez.
Not everything is PSOE and PP
Everything indicates that there are only two candidates, Sánchez and Feijóo, who can be sworn in, but there are two other candidates who will almost certainly have the key to Moncloa. Add to the left, and Vox to the right.
After a somewhat weak start to the campaign due to the harsh agreement with Podemos to form the candidacy, the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has acknowledged that in the last week of the electoral campaign, in which polls cannot be published, “everything changed” and now the left can win.
“Everything changed this week, I say it from the bottom of my heart, we can win, I’m not a great fan, I’m telling you with data… It’s true, I have data,” Díaz emphasized, who believes that this turnaround is due to “all the Feijóo disaster” in the last days of the campaign.
Vox, for its part, warns of the danger of the useful vote that the PP is demanding and has asked its voters to trust its candidacy as the only sure way to evict the “sanchismo” from Moncloa.
Will the vote by mail be decisive?
In the absence of knowing the definitive data, the elections of 23J will be the ones with the highest participation of the vote by mail of democracy.
A general election had never been held in the middle of summer, with many citizens away from home on vacation, which has triggered requests to 2.62 million voters.
Although the laggard voters remain to be counted, it is known that at least 94 percent of the applicants have deposited their vote at the Post Office.
Although the law establishes that whoever has requested the postal vote but then has not delivered it, will no longer be able to vote at their school, the Vox candidate, Santiago Abascal, has proposed that this provision be deleted.
“The most important political right that we citizens have is the right to active suffrage, it is the right to vote. I think exceptional decisions would have to be made ”, she warned.
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