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  • PP.Pablo Casado takes advantage of Pedro Sánchez's "gift" in the debate: "He made it very clear that he will again agree with Torra and Junqueras"

Rise in the PSOE after the only electoral debate of the campaign. In the April elections, Pedro Sánchez managed to get out of the two that were held alive but were not used to escalate in votes. On the contrary, its progression was paralyzed. Yesterday he decided to face it with more ambition, launching a series of proposals aimed at combating indoctrination in the classrooms of Catalan independence and the "sectarianism" of TV3 , in search of the center vote that Citizens have been able to leave orphaned and convince those who choose the ballot in the last days. He omitted to specify whether he will rely on ERC or JxCat to form a government, if his support or abstention is necessary, but the final balance of the Socialists is that he won the debate. In the previous ones they only said that they were not so important and that the impact on the undecided was minimal.

Now, on the other hand, they consider that they have been able to attract the dubious and that, according to party sources, after the poise shown by the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, when explaining his proposals, fleeing an exalted tone, despite Of the hardness of some of his ideas such as the questioning of gender violence or the link between immigration and crime, the president of the PP, Pablo Casado, has to be "very worried". In the PSOE they think that Sanchez was the "clear winner in substance and form". But they place Abascal as the winner on the right.

To agitate the internal tension in this block, the President of the Government in office and a socialist candidate has been dedicated today in a brief rally in Valladolid, after an electoral walk through the city. Sanchez said that in the debate last night two things were seen. One, to a "ultra-right emboldened", in reference to Vox, and to a right, in reference to PP and Citizens, "flattened". "They said things like abortion, the gender violence law, had to be repealed, it was banalized by the inequality that women suffer, it was said that the autonomous communities had to be suppressed," he said, about some of Abascal's approaches . And before that, he stressed, "the right was silent and did not raise his voice." According to Sánchez, this happens "because they have done the opposite of what the PP does in Europe and the centrists in France, in Germany and in other European countries, which is to combat the extreme right by isolating it." "Condemning its Francoism, its machismo, its xenophobia, everything that represents values ​​contrary to democracy," he added.

Therefore, the acting president said, "we have to win this battle on 10-N and we have to win it well." "To overcome the blockade, because we need a strong government and to demonstrate to the right that the only way they can regain the confidence of the Spaniards is to isolate the extreme right and not veto the PSOE."

Sanchez has asked the socialists "to mobilize" and "talk to all the undecided." As he pointed out yesterday in the final minute, he has repeated that "it is not true" that he had a pact with the independentists, as Cs said, or that he will have it after Sunday's elections with the PP, as United Podemos suggests. In the debate it was verified, he said, that there are only two options: "Or vote for the PSOE so that there is Government or the rest so that there is not." That is why he has called to "concentrate" the vote in his party.

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