Feijóo fights against abstention as the main threat to change

On the path that Alberto Núñez Feijóo had designed to reach Moncloa, he did not have an element that in the opinion of the popular could be the main obstacle to winning the general elections on July 23 with a sufficient majority to be able to govern: demobilization .

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
11 June 2023 Sunday 04:25
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Feijóo fights against abstention as the main threat to change

On the path that Alberto Núñez Feijóo had designed to reach Moncloa, he did not have an element that in the opinion of the popular could be the main obstacle to winning the general elections on July 23 with a sufficient majority to be able to govern: demobilization . The electoral date coincides with the vacations of two and a half or three million citizens, and the fear of the popular is that they will not vote.

For the PP, only abstention can prevent them from winning the general elections as they won the municipal and regional elections on May 28, and that the change they advocate is a reality. That it be an unstoppable change, like the one that the president of the PP saw possible on the night of the municipal elections.

To clear the obstacle of abstention, Feijóo asked yesterday for "an incontestable majority", during his speech at an event held in Galicia, where he met his countrymen again. The leader of the PP will focus on trying to mobilize his electorate, so that they do not give up after having won the 28-M. He asked them to vote, even if they are far away, on vacation, or "even if the break has to be postponed for a few days." This appeal has a special meaning in Galician lands, since the elections fall in the middle of a bridge, that of the day of Galicia, on July 25.

There are 42 days left for those elections, which is the time that "sanchismo" has left, according to Feijóo. Only 24 hours after the celebration on Saturday of the federal committee of the PSOE, the president of the PP assured that "Sánchez has not understood anything that Spain has told him on May 28, but he has not understood anything of what his party", in which, he stressed, "there have been purges in the lists, candidates who resign en bloc and barons who did not go", he said, referring to the presidents of Aragon, Javier Lambán, and of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Page.

Feijóo addressed both yesterday, to say that a victory for the PP is also convenient for them, because, he assured, “if the PP wins and governs, it will be a historic opportunity to rebuild the Socialist Party that existed before Sánchez. It will be a historic opportunity, and we are going to give it to them”.

According to Feijóo, getting that "unappealable majority" that he needs to reach Moncloa can make possible, he said, "a better government, a government for all, where the value of the word given is recovered and it returns to a government of the people , a government that complies”, and that does not celebrate defeats.

With this objective, the leader of the PP encouraged those who want him to be president of the government to vote. He once again insisted on mobilization, which is very necessary to "have a government that can be trusted, that there is no government that lies." Feijóo wanted to be optimistic and assured that "things are going quite well", but he stressed that nobody should be trusted.

Feijóo's barometer to know that the PP is on the right track to win 23-J, he said, is "the level of insults" that the Socialists dedicate to him, and especially President Pedro Sánchez. "Some say that I am soft, others that I am ultra", but always "insulting me", he lamented, while the PSOE leader "is more concerned with the lists than with his program", because, he insisted, he knows that he will not be able to govern .

"There are chances of winning," he stressed, in an optimistic tone, and predicted that it is the "end of fireworks of sanchismo." "There are 42 days left for all this to end and put an end to sanchismo, and we are going to do it," stressed the PP leader, who assured that his victory will demonstrate "that Spain is once again a reliable country, that it is abandoning the populism and the absurd independence movement of those who support the current government”.

But despite the good perceptions, Feijóo wanted to emphasize the need to go vote, not relax, not waste time celebrating the results of the PP on 28-M, but thinking about 23-J.