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In United We can have finished the campaign tired. Not only because of the kilometers, the acts and the debates, but because they have spent the last weeks pushing Pedro Sánchez to the right of the political board. The goal of the effort is to manifest the perennial flirtation, they believe in Podemos, that Sanchez stars with PP and Citizens - coining concepts like "soft coalition" - to be invested president with his abstentions, which allows the purples to present themselves as the only party with 100% leftist DNA and the only one facing the "economic oligarchy." Iglesias is sold as the guarantor that the PSOE does not agree with the PP.

Iglesias and his team have intensified this exercise in recent days, in a mixture of strategy and political unease. In the purple dome it caused astonishment how Sanchez, in the electoral debate, blamed Pablo Casado and Albert Rivera for the political blockade, for the electoral repetition, and not for Iglesias. What could be a dart in the form of contempt for Podemos, this formation has made it his leitmotif: «Sanchez, has made a decision: to seek an alliance with the right». And based on this conviction they have coined a new term. The creators of "caste", "plot" or "plan" have championed the term "soft coalition": agreement between PSOE and PP, by which the popular would facilitate the investiture of Sanchez with his abstention, in exchange for agreeing the policy in Catalonia and economic measures before the recession.

A formula that causes fear in Podemos, as it could make them irrelevant - they assume that Cs would add to the equation - could make their deputies unnecessary for the PSOE and, therefore, drown their aspirations of a Coalition Executive . The only thing would open the door to fight for being opposition leaders.

The message, beyond identifying the PSOE with the rights, seeks to mobilize the disenchanted, annoyed left-wing electorate, angry with Sánchez's management and way of proceeding. In the general elections of April, the PSOE managed to agglutinate the useful vote of the left. The campaign of fear of Vox and the excessive surrender of Podemos to the PSOE was successful. With the Santiago Abascal party integrated into political life and with Sánchez "asking Casado to lift the sanitary cordon," they lament in Podemos, they believe they have before them a scenario to recover left-wing voters: those who voted for them and returned to the PSOE; those who doubted whether to vote or not; or those who vote PSOE but are disappointed.

The published polls did not reflect a collapse of Podemos - that is why the purses boast, because they believe that it was one of Sánchez's arguments to repeat the elections - but that Unidos Podemos could remain in the environment of the 42 deputies, perhaps with a Little fall Experts point out that the formation hit the ground in the April elections, which it reached after important internal battles, and that it has achieved that in public opinion it warns the feeling that Sanchez and not Iglesias were the culprit. But if the leader of Podemos wants to have enough political muscle to force the PSOE into a new government negotiation, he needs to fish in the socialist electorate. It is your only way to grow, because we can not drink any of the right formations. "You are seeing the transfer of many people who with a PSOE could really vote for Sanchez, but with this PSOE they will vote again for United We can," said Iglesias yesterday. "Talk to your friends, your family members of the PSOE and tell them to give us a chance," he repeated during the campaign. «Even the Socialists know that what is consistent with being leftist is voting We can».

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