Spain is once again showing its complexity, but also the demand for pacts and the Spaniards are making it clear that they do not want a government of the far right. Contrary to the assertion, it is a problem for the PP if the PP can only negotiate with Vox. The other conclusion does not concern popular power as much as its leader. What will Feijoo do? The Galician candidate had raised too many expectations: that is the key word of the evening and of these elections. Fueled by a hyperventilated right-wing media that provided the crucial framework from the start, anything that got out of the picture became pathetic from then on. The PP won, it’s not a bitter victory like in 1996, but it’s useless because the blue formation doesn’t seem capable of governing.
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What happened to make the most unlikely option finally materialize? If the Socialists still had one campaign week left in the regional and local elections in May, this week was left in the popular elections. Starting with an ace up your sleeve has its perks if you know how to use it, but that winning range as a starting bonus, fueled by most polls, saw them craft a campaign that was overly comfortable, even overbearing. However, politics does not react to natural phenomena. There is no tsunami value; Not even the blue winds blowing from Europe can undo a fundamental maxim: Victories are earned and Sánchez wanted to win, as always. If there is a tsunami in these elections, it will likely be because of the extraordinary mobilization of the left that has taken place over the last week.
Sánchez delivers the umpteenth proof of his resilience, beating 2019’s result by half a million votes in a frenzied PP campaign and remaining close to the blue formation on the vote. Impartiality is strengthened, although we have not restored it. Vox gains at least third place: it loses 19 seats compared to the 7 lost by the space represented by Podemos. Yolanda Díaz weathered the guy very well. But these elections will stand for three reasons. Poor management of expectations of a PP that previously won the game with a landslide against a PSOE campaign that was reasonably good, also due to the management of expectations. The campaign will be remembered secondly for the lies and meanness that Muñoz Molina described with the precision of a surgeon: “You cannot openly ignore the truth while at the same time losing respect for a journalist who does her job well.” And above all, the use of expressions that were part of the impassable red lines that we set ourselves as a country must not be trivialized. All. The additional chapter is that of the resistance of Sánchez, who could rule if he manages to get junts to abstain.
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