• PP.Pablo Casado sends two million SMS asking for the vote "for a new majority of change"
  • 10-N. Pablo Casado sees winning options: "There is a technical tie and the decrease in participation reduces the reliability of the polls"

There was a huge symbolic burden in the election of Las Ventas as the venue for the closing meeting of the Popular Party campaign. On the arena of the bullfighting cathedral, covered with a glazed tent as a greenhouse -or igloo, such was the cold- Pablo Casado raised last night, in his last electoral act, a binary election for 10-N: blockade or government , paralysis or reforms, independence drift or unity of Spain, crisis or employment. PSOE or PP, without third ways. Kill or die, as the bullfighting adage that best sums up the hour of supreme luck for those who play it properly.

Married to the point. «Soon and in the hand», as Antoñete used to say - who was literally raised in this place -, the PP candidate launched his idea of ​​strength to try the most difficult one: to overcome the PSOE «by a deputy». «I want to start by addressing those who voted for the PP and at some point decided to stop voting. Some have opted for Citizens or Vox, and given the seriousness of the situation in Spain, I tell you with all humility that we need your support to throw Sanchez. We agree that Spain is at stake; its historical continuity is played, so we have to join forces ».

The polls published until Monday - deadline - predicted a result of between 95 and 100 seats for the PP, in a generalized way. Some less. But Casado wanted to invoke the drag effect of the useful vote: «Polls cannot be published, but I inform you that we are already in a technical tie. We cannot divide the vote, we cannot fragment all the momentum that Spain has. With all due respect to Santiago Abascal, Albert Rivera and their voters. If we have to agree to a tax cut with Vox, we will already reach an agreement in Congress, if we have to reach agreements with Cs in education, we will do it, but now it is about winning »and for that we must" unite The vote". In return, the PP proposed not to facilitate any investiture of Pedro Sánchez. "It is consistent," he said, one day after calling Rivera and Pablo Iglesias (We can) "comparsas" for having proposed facilitating Sanchez to continue in La Moncloa.

On his speech - much better compacted and with more claw than the one he gave at the end of the April campaign - he continually flew over the phrase of the hopeless Iván Fandiño, a bullfighter very pleased with Madrid: «Sometimes, it is now or never». Paraphrasing that motto in different ways, Casado appealed to add now, and not "in two or four years."

To make himself understood, the popular candidate pulled two metaphors, one football and one bullfighting. “Now he can only win one team or another, there can't be a third shirt in this final, because he could score a goal in his own goal. And we are in Las Ventas: when you have to give the ear, all the public has to join with the white handkerchief », because if there are some lines that do not take it out, it is much more difficult for there to be a majority and therefore, triumph.

On the hunt for that useful vote, Genoa was launched yesterday in tromba, which sent 2 million SMS to potential voters: «Hi, I'm Pablo Casado, I ask for your vote to add a new majority of change in Spain in the face of the economic crisis and to the separatist challenge, ”says the message. In Casado's environment they believe they need a final boost, given the atony (and final rebound) of their internal surveys during the week.

«They call it a useful vote, but I call it an urgent, necessary, united vote, to make history. I want an agreement with those voters to put the urgency in what unites us and we will leave for later what we do not agree. I want to appeal to the illusion, ”Casado agreed.

In the Venteño event - which ended with the anthem of Spain -, all the speakers emphasized that the election is dual, or Casado or Sánchez, and that is why the voters of Vox and Citizens must "vote to unite Spain." This was said by the popular candidate at his entrance, at the Great Gate, before the crowd crowded to jelly him. There were 1,500 people who had to stay out of the thing, which in this type of non-bullfighting events reduces its capacity to 2,000 spectators. In total, 3,500.

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