• RAÚL PIÑA

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    Madrid

Updated on Tuesday, 27April2021-02: 04

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The elections in the Community of Madrid for the left-wing parties are played in a week.

This week.

The entire campaign of the PSOE, United We Can and More Madrid has been reset as a result of the knowledge of the death threats to public officials - the last one, this Monday, to Minister Reyes Maroto - and the encounter between Rocío Monasterio and Pablo Iglesias, when The Vox candidate questioned the veracity of the threats.

"The campaign changed," they explain from these parties, who see in these threats the option of confronting the right wing and mobilizing their voters.

A change that has forced the PSOE to turn its strategy towards polarization.

"Today all Democrats are threatened with death if we don't stop Vox at the polls."

The phrase, pronounced this Monday by Minister Maroto -who would be Ángel Gabilondo's economic vice president if he managed to govern in Madrid- at the door of Congress while showing a photograph of the knife -with blood, supposedly- that they sent him in an envelope, embodied the claim.

The left combines a message of the extreme right / fascism or democracy in an attempt to promote participation, since they consider that only if it exceeds 70% and approaches 75% could they have options to add against the PP and Vox.

At a rally, by Adriana Lastra

The letter of threat with a knife sent to Maroto served the PSOE to prop up the strategy outlined days ago of joining the framework advanced by United We Can and presenting the elections as a plebiscite on democracy and under this leitmotiv to point out Vox as the enemy: ultra-right / fascism or democracy.

A turn in the campaign to try to overcome in a context in which the polls predicted until now a constant decline of the Socialists.

The sending of the letter with the threat was announced by Adriana Lastra, deputy secretary general of the PSOE, in an electoral act on diversity in Ferraz.

Minister Maroto went to report to the police station that is in Congress and appeared before the media showing the knife that contained the envelope she received.

Almost at the same time, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, gave an interview on television, which was not on the government's agenda for the day.

"From here, to fascism: You are not going to pass. It is over. This is about democracy," said Lastra at the Gabilondo campaign event.

"I encourage all the democrats in Madrid and those who believe in the values ​​of the Constitution and social justice. You have to get wet on 4-M."

Two messages that summarize the approach that the left parties are betting on and that after the turn given, the PSOE now wants to champion.

The messages of the PSOE

On the one hand, point to Vox as the culprit of generating a breeding ground that causes actions such as death threats.

On the other hand, appeal to their voters to cast the ballot.

It should be remembered that, according to the Sigma-Dos Panel for this newspaper, the socialists had a voting fidelity of only 50.2% and had the largest pool of undecided: 230,780 people who voted for the PSOE did not know which party to vote for.

In the afternoon, the police investigation determined that the person who sent the threat is a neighbor of El Escorial (Madrid) who suffers from schizophrenia, and that he did not hide his identity as it was on the envelope.

The person was not detained, only identified, pending what the judicial authority may decide.

Moreover, police sources separated this letter from those received at the Ministry of the Interior for Minister Grande-Marlaska and for Pablo Iglesias, in whose interior there were bullets.

"Now it is being said that the person who threatened Reyes was one who was not well, who had a deficiency. I don't know, that is still to be resolved, I don't want to anticipate anything and I wonder, what if that person is like this ? Is it possible to threaten if one is not well? Or do we not know that events that have happened in the history of humanity with tragic consequences are sometimes these people who are isolated, who are carried away by hate speech and exclusion What are they planted as seeds? ”Gabilondo explained at the rally held this Monday in Fuenlabrada.

The focus, on Vox

The sources consulted by this newspaper explain that the turn that the PSOE has printed on its campaign and its speech, placing Vox in the spotlight again, seeks to seek the leading role that the Socialists had not had in the campaign until now.

The fact that Isabel Díaz Ayuso first imposed a framework of confrontation with "communism or freedom" did not make them feel comfortable.

But what happened in recent days - the threats, added to the fact that the strategy of attracting voters from Ciudadanos did not bear fruit as they expected - has allowed for a turnaround that even the Government is good for because it is no longer the theme and axis of the campaign. the management of the coronavirus pandemic or the possible tax hike, which had created discomfort.

"There is a lot at stake, it is not only about Madrid, it is not even about Spain. It is about democracy. It is about our freedom and coexistence," was one of Lastra's reflections, which they link to the video disseminated by United We can from various leaders of Europe and reinforce the idea put forward by Pablo Iglesias that the 4-M is in danger of democracy in Madrid.

Sánchez's words

In the parties that share space with the PSOE, especially in United We Can, the meeting that Pedro Sánchez gave on Sunday caused astonishment at first, in which he stated that democracy "has a problem" for "normalizing" Vox.

In the

purple

formation they

consider that the PSOE, in its attempt to try to fly back, is "copying" its strategy and putting Iglesias as a reference.

They believe that Sunday's words mean recognizing that in Spain "there is no democratic normality", as Iglesias says.

They recall that, at the time, Socialist ministers came out in a whirlwind to charge against the then Vice President of the Government, but that now the head of the Executive himself makes that circumstance explicit.

The sources consulted recall that only a few months ago it was Sánchez himself who normalized Vox, exhibiting the formation as an example of a "sense of state" against the PP, because he supported the decree of European funds in Congress, thus saving his approval.

And now it is once again "ultra-right" and all forces are asked to make "a sanitary cordon to Vox".

A "sanitary cordon" that the PSC also promoted in the Catalan election campaign, but which, for example, was later executed when preventing the formation led by Santiago Abascal from having a senator by regional appointment.

"We will not break the law," they argued just a few days ago.

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