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The legislature has already been liquidated without hardly using it and only a few days before, with the dissolution of the Courts on Monday and the electoral call on November 10, everything starts again, in Congress it was speculated on Wednesday already with victories and defeats. Who will improve your result, who will bleed. The Socialists outline their call to mobilization with the banner that they have "taken away" the Government without a real alternative. They will not give truce to United We can and will blame the failure of the negotiations to form a new Executive to the intransigence of Pablo Iglesias. For his high pretensions, for his rejection of the coalition when he was offered.

The PSOE goes "to expand its support" on 10-N. On his left, with those who have not understood the commitment of Iglesias to enter the Government. But for that flank they have already won almost everything possible, that is why their attack on that flank is aimed at being more palatable on their right. It will appeal to the vote "of common sense, moderation, the need for stability and governance." He will go for the disenchanted with Albert Rivera.

And for them the PP will also be launched. The popular understand that in an electoral repetition they benefit from the useful vote and their proposal of reunification of the right center under the Spain Suma brand. And they, in addition, have not flirted at the last minute with a possible abstention to the investiture of Sanchez. They claim as the PP, serious, predictable.

"The great fishing ground"

The PSOE intends to convince the citizens of the center of Citizens, those who are suspicious of the right turn, those who did not hear in the campaign that Rivera would never facilitate a Government of Pedro Sánchez or did not want to believe it. The internal debate that has resulted in the march of leaders such as Toni Roldán and Francisco de la Torre is reflected in the polls. Almost half of Citizen voters do not know if they will back it up, according to polls. About two million votes outdoors. 45% of its electorate. Those are the accounts of the two great parties. Even Citizens admit that 35% of their votes (more than a million and a half) will not be settled until the last week.

Socialist sources explained Wednesday that "there is the fight, the great fishing ground". They think that Rivera has found the "electoral" movement of the last hours towards abstention inoperative because, they think, it is not enough to convince the moderate voter. And that it will not be credible to defend now that he tried to get Spain out of the blockade. In that thesis they claim that they will not be able to recover center electorate.

With the speech very overturned in this space, the PSOE continues its departure from ERC - this Wednesday Pedro Sánchez pointed to a new 155 if the Constitution is violated - and also reinforces part of the combative attitude with Podemos. Sources of the party maintains that the message that they have not yielded to the claims of Iglesias even if it has supposed that there is no Government, serves to arm their traditional electorate for reasons but also to seduce that of Citizens. "Where is the alliance with populists and separatists? Where is the band Rivera alluded to?"

And one last argument goes to the Socialists to fight both Iglesias and Rivera: "The new parties have not brought anything different" and "many people begin to relate fragmentation to instability and blockade." Both PP and PSOE point to a "reinforcement" of 10-N traditional parties, to a revaluation of what they call the "mother mass."

"Everything can get better"

The PP was not in favor of the electoral repetition, but, given the facts and under the polls, he opted for optimism: "Now everything can get better," they say in Genoa , where they are convinced that the center-right electorate will swing towards the useful vote. Hence, they have focused on recovering voters who went to Citizens in April. Half of the undecided orange electorate - around one million people - is likely to "return to the mother house," say the PP.

That is why the PP is going to constantly insist on the idea of ​​the electoral confluence with Citizens, under the Spain Suma brand. In his meeting with Rivera on Monday night, Casado already brought up the subject. And he saw Rivera "something more dialogic," according to the same sources. Although Cs completely rejects the coalition, the popular have hopes that it can occur in the Senate. That is why they will try to open a formal negotiation with the orange leaders.

In the PP they want to redouble their commitment to the economy, as a counterpoint to Citizens, who has hardly any management experience. At the dawn of a new crisis, the popular want to rearm on the economic flank, and for this they will hold a convention in the coming weeks. At this point and in its response to Brexit , the PP believes that it can scratch a lot of electorate to Citizens, for its greater "institutional profile".

The popular believe that they take the lead to Citizens because they have proven to be "the only alternative" to Sanchez, and the only party that has not "flirted" with giving support. Married has planned "not to enter the fray with Rivera or Vox", but wants to fish in both fishing grounds. It will try to move Citizens to the center left. "There are another million voters who doubt PSOE-Citizens and could oscillate," they say in Genoa.

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