Government and PSOE believe that France "puts Feijóo before its worst mirror": "Capitulates before the extreme right"

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The results of the first round of the elections in

, with Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen going to the second round, have spurred the

and the PSOE to continue their strategy of stripping Alberto Núñez Feijóo of the halo of moderation that he has wanted to print in its first steps and link it with the "extreme right".

They consider that the democratic cordon that the majority of parties requested against Le Pen "puts the PP against its worst mirror."

They remember that their French counterparts, the Republicans, did too.

"Far from putting a democratic veto on the extreme right, Feijóo has taken a definitive step by opening the doors to the extreme right in the government of

", said

, spokesman for the PSOE.

"They have to reflect and look at the European right that is putting democratic cordons on the extreme right while here in

it is embracing the extreme right," said Isabel Rodríguez, government spokesperson, referring to the PP.

In the Executive there is "concern" about the broad support garnered by Le Pen in France, which allows him to dispute the presidential chair in a one-on-one with Macron.

They believe that the fact that Vox occupies government responsibilities for the first time in

, as will happen in Castilla y León, is not good news.

They ask Feijóo for "a change of course" towards a "centered right that puts an end to the advances of the far right."

For this reason, he has considered that "all the alerts" should be turned on and that it is "an opportune moment" for the new Feijóo PP to undertake "a change of direction to a centered right like the European one that puts an end to the advances of the extreme right " in

.

Since Feijóo took the stripes as the new leader of the PP, the strategy of the Socialists is to present the president of the main opposition party as an "ally of the extreme right" of Vox and is accused of "covering up" the "corruption" of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José Luis Martínez-Almeida regarding the commissions in the purchase of sanitary material.

The arrival of the Galician leader supposes a competition for Pedro Sánchez in the space of moderation and the center, a turn that he decided months ago and whose maximum expression was the crisis of government and socialist federal congress.

And the PSOE is pressing to push Feijóo out of that suit of centrist and moderate leader that Sánchez wants to wear.

"Feijóo's PP capitulates to the extreme right and to the astonishment of its European partners. That the PP wants to cover up its corruption has a price: giving way to the extreme right and that our rights and freedoms are in danger", Sicilia has reeled , in an appearance without questions.

"In order to maintain power, Feijóo is willing to give the governments to the extreme right. This PP has nothing again, it is the same as

,

and

. It continues to be the party of corruption."

What no member of the Government or the PSOE has alluded to in their speeches is the blow that the socialist party has taken in France, where its candidate,

, has garnered a very poor 1.8% of the votes.

Pedro Sánchez worked closely with the mayor of Paris: she was one of the star guests at the 40th federal congress of the PSOE and the head of the Executive, in November 2021, shared a round table with her and the Portuguese Prime Minister,

, in

, at an event to support her role as a presidential candidate.

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