In addition to being happy, yesterday in the PSOE executive they observed a Pedro Sánchez whom they had not seen "so relaxed" for a long time. The result of the Basque elections, they recognize in Ferraz, was exactly what they would have signed: “The PNV's mood is lowered, Bildu does not put us in a commitment, we go up and we have the key, the PP does not matter, Sumar enters and Podemos is left out,” they highlight.
Sánchez warned that the scrutiny of the polls in Euskadi dilutes the change in the political cycle that Alberto Núñez Feijóo encourages. The Galician elections in February, in which the PP revalidated its absolute majority, encouraged the thesis of the end of the cycle that Feijóo predicts to dislodge Sánchez from Moncloa. But the “residual and irrelevant” position in which the polls keep the PP in Euskadi, said PSOE spokesperson Esther Peña, deals a “blow of reality” to Feijóo.
And Sánchez is already accelerating ahead of the campaign for the elections on May 12 in Catalonia, in which he will be involved “by land, sea and air”, and where the socialists predict that their candidate, Salvador Illa, will win even more decisively. than in 2021. Instead, they assure that Feijóo's “erratic territorial policy” will once again pass a heavy toll on the PP.
Uncertainty is maximum before the Catalan elections, Ferraz admits, and although some leaders entertain the possibility that Illa will manage to govern as a minority, others admit that this will be “very complicated.”
In any case, there are also those who highlight that a new coalition government between Junts and Esquerra in Catalonia would not have to threaten the continuity and stability of Sánchez's mandate.
The analysis shared in the meeting that Sánchez held with the PSOE executive is that the Basque elections represent a boost to face the appointment with the Catalan polls. And, above all, they send the message that in the struggle between the PP and the PSOE “everything is not done” nor is there a red carpet rolled out for Feijóo to inevitably arrive at the Moncloa.
“The PP does not understand Spain,” they insist in Ferraz, to ensure that Feijóo is incapable of understanding the political plurality and territorial diversity of the country, which would explain, in their opinion, its “irrelevance” in Euskadi, Navarra or Catalonia. where his speech generates a “reactive vote.” The PP, however, already governs in 11 of the 17 autonomous communities, and with an absolute majority in Madrid, Andalusia or Galicia.
