Sánchez weakens a PSOE in free fall

The turnaround that the national political board has taken in just half a term is quite

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and how the president has become a heavy burden that drags his party into the void.

Well, if today those 120 seats that the PSOE won in the November 2019 elections seem like

it is not so much because of

commendable opposition work -

ideological firm, without e

Yet wrong in actions such as the new partisan institutional distribution that it has agreed to - but for having neglected the management of the health pandemic, for denying the resulting economic crisis and for trying to lead a country through artifice and propaganda with a single objective: stay in the curul chair of La Moncloa.

Thus, when extracting

It must be concluded that not even using the Government as a loudspeaker for his demagoguery is helping Sánchez to recover an iota of the strength that he once treasured, since citizens, aware of the delicate situation that Spain is going through,

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The political attrition is enormous.

Neither the homage paid to him by his followers in the PSOE Congress, nor having seized European funds to irrigate budget items without control, nor even the announcement of such populist measures - and at the same time burdensome for the treasury - as the misnamed cultural bonus have served so that

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Thus, if elections were held today, the socialist party would not row beyond 99 deputies.

Nor would the horizon be fortunate for his government partner, who would continue to star in his particular free fall towards indifference.

The coalition bloc suffers the demographic setback that its administration deserves, with 4.5 points less than in the last elections and this is perceived, above all, in terms of seats: it would lose 31 and have no possibility of repeating the Frankenstein experiment .

Nothing is accidental, of course:

The data, on the other hand,

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The PP and Casado would today be the most voted option at a great distance from the PSOE.

The popular ones would arouse 28.9% of the intention to vote, leaving until the

we would find that they would add the majority necessary to govern.

Ciudadanos, unfortunately, would have almost no representation in Congress.

Another relevant note:

he stands as a well-valued leader among PSOE voters, when Pablo Iglesias was not even close to being approved.

It is becoming more and more understandable why from the socialist ranks they do nothing more than boycott Díaz: in the hypothetical case that she was a candidate, it seems clear that she would take over part of the land that the PSOE gives up.

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