• Galicia 2020 Elections Special
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Former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero today made what he defined as his first public appearance after being confined by the coronavirus, to join the Galician election campaign in Santiago . Specifically, to cross a rainbow zebra crossing, visit a couple of statues in the Alameda, and pose with views of the cranes that surround the cathedral of Santiago, before going to eat.

Zapatero thus joined Mariano Rajoy for the Galician campaign, and for a particular lapse duel. During a rally on Saturday, the former PP president pronounced with a faltering cadence that "very few are ... those who today ... do not ... agree with everyone ... that Galicia improved ... and much since then ». A phrase that went viral and that, according to Diario de Pontevedra , "could make sense." Something that Zapatero did not achieve today when he promised that the socialists will dedicate their days to "that the minimum wage be more and more minimal."

While the worst poll for the PP gives Alberto Núñez Feijóo the absolute majority, the worst for the PSOE says that they will not even be second forces due to the advance of the Galician Nationalist Block. Zapatero was highly criticized this week for defending, in an interview on elnacional.cat, the presence of pro-independence ministers in the Government of Spain; and yesterday he rescued the Never Again formula several times, with which at the time they governed Galicia at the hands of the nationalists.

After the Prestige collapsed, Zapatero became the Prime Minister, and the following year, the PSOE and BNG avoided Manuel Fraga's fifth term. "I do not want to dramatize, it is not my style," she said after releasing, 17 years after the sinking of the ship, that now "the Nevermore must be carried to its ultimate consequences."

Zapatero promoted the candidate for the Xunta, Gonzalo Caballero, nephew of the media mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, as a man of "deep convictions"; and the aforementioned did not disappoint him by pronouncing the most Galician phrase of the entire campaign: "I could be LGTBI or not." Much better was left to the former president to compare the aspirations of his candidate with those of Núñez Feijóo: "Behind Gonzalo Caballero there is only Galicia, there is no hidden strategy, nor an unrealized ambition."

The former Prime Minister dedicated a large part of the morning to taking advantage of gay marriage, of which he said, "justifies a whole political life, and almost a personal life." Perhaps that is why the socialist party spent a good time in the most vindictive statue of Santiago, the two maries, two sisters who dressed in a strident way, and that just at the time that the socialist mayor of the city, Xosé Sánchez Bugallo, Explaining the statue to Zapatero, they strolled off stridently dressed to flirt with Santiago's students, becoming icons of social abuse during the dictatorship.

Much less time were spent chatting next to the sitting Valle-Inclán, sculpted in haughty bronze, as if about to release the Romance of Wolves to passers-by: «Who is speaking to me? Are you voices from the other world? Are you souls in pain, or are you sons of bitches? ».

At the same time, the other former president in campaign, Mariano Rajoy, was walking a few kilometers further north but in the same province, in Mugardos. This time the former popular president avoided the statements. He just strolled through the town, took photos with passersby who asked him, and then had a drink at a bar in the port with some senior officials of the local PP.

Zapatero, who also gave a rally in the afternoon in Arteixo, took the opportunity to lash out at the attitude of the PP during the coronavirus pandemic, which has been "proof of what each one is like, who gets their shoulders or who trips." And later, although without naming him, he dedicated the phrase to Pablo Casado: "Poor aspiration of a politician and a party that waits for things to go wrong so that he can get ahead."

In fact, he also accused Feijóo of taking advantage of the coronavirus to call the elections in "haste", almost "during the state of alarm", and thus curb a progressive majority that says it exists in Galicia. It is true that in April the socialists advanced to the PP, but in November the Casado regained, albeit narrowly, the first place.

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