“Nadia or no one”, raises the leadership of the PSOE as the first electoral slogan of this pre-campaign of 23-J. Pedro Sánchez himself advanced this contrasting framework, in which he seeks to trap Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in the federal socialist committee, by brandishing the figure and management of his economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, against a Popular Party that, at his In her opinion, "she has no economic alternative" nor does she have a powerful profile in her team that, at least for now, can be measured face to face with her. “We have a plan and they have nothing. We have Nadia, and they have no one," warned Sánchez.
The president considers that Feijóo has a hole in his economic flank, for which he wants to attack to take the initiative and set the agenda, and for this he will give Calviño a lot of prominence -despite the fact that he did not join his electoral lists-, in this campaign. From today.
Sánchez will preside over a meeting today in Ferraz with the coordinators of the PSOE electoral program for 23-J, and then it will be the economic vice president who will appear to announce the main lines of her economic project. “We are going to put a lot of weight on the economy, as opposed to a Feijóo without a team and without proposals. With four set phrases he will not be able to endure the entire campaign ”, warn the socialist strategists.
State economist and senior official of the European institutions until Sánchez appointed her as Minister of Economy in 2018, Calviño (A Coruña, 1968) has recently arrived from New York, where she received the Foreign Policy Association medal and gave several interviews. , to CNN and Bloomberg, to highlight the strength of the Spanish economy and its role on the European and international scene. Just the opposite of what Feijóo was doing at the same time, who at the South Summit meeting in Madrid warned international investors that the Spanish economy is “in decline and stagnant”, as denounced by the Government in a torrent.
“The Spanish economy is not only doing well, but it is going like a motorcycle. It is not stagnant, as Feijóo says, I don't know if due to ignorance or bad faith. The Spanish economy is growing well above the European average and, for the first time in decades, on robust and fair bases", Sánchez replied, in line with the data that Calviño uses and that is ratified by international organizations such as the ECB, the IMF or the OECD. Above all, with the growth forecast of 2.1% in this 2023. The same that the Government used to prepare its latest State budgets, which the PP branded as "unreal". "The only unreal and ghostly thing is the economic alternative of the PP," Sánchez settled.
The president will push Calviño even more, to focus the campaign on management. And he will do the same with the third vice president, Teresa Ribera –his electoral ticket for Madrid–, to focus on the climate emergency, or with the minister José Luis Escrivá, to deploy his electoral program. All of them will be at the Ferraz meeting today, along with the Minister of Finance and PSOE Vice Secretary General, María Jesús Montero, and the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
Sánchez is designing a different electoral campaign at the same time, according to his team: "Less rallies, but very powerful." To concentrate efforts. With a lot of economy and a lot of management.
