Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz will compete to revitalize the left with two parallel 'listening processes'

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The first of the battles will take place in the squares.

The upward trend of the Popular Party in the polls and the economic uncertainty that threatens the country force the left to take to the streets, approach "the people" with a multitude of acts before the end of the year and "listen" to the demands of citizenship as the main slogan to restore confidence to the electorate in the face of the polls.

Time, in fact, is running against both the PSOE and the plan that Yolanda Díaz is designing.

The electoral race until the general elections will have an intermediate level in May, with the regional and municipal elections, which will serve as a thermometer for the examination of the parties at the national level at the end of the year.

Therefore, the left starts the course from now on with the intention of reconnecting with its bases and achieving a mobilizing effect that stops the momentum of the right.

Thus, the Executive and the PSOE have designed a marathon of events until the end of the year.

Pedro Sánchez will participate in at least thirty of them in order to "be even closer to the public to explain his policies and listen to his demands," say socialist sources.

The Government and the leadership of the PSOE work with the perspective that the war will continue over time and, with it, its effects: a socioeconomic and energy crisis.

PSOE sources explain that "they understand the fatigue that the pandemic has generated and the concern that comes from seeing that, when we seemed to come out of it, the economic perspectives are darkened by the war."

But they oppose that the Government is taking measures, they insist that some are "uncomfortable for certain powers", and the Government of the people has designed the strategy to try to recover that harmony with the street that now the polls show that it does not have.

The mobilization affects the entire Government and estates of the PSOE: presidents, presidents, mayors, mayors, candidates, both the autonomous communities and the city councils, because, detailed from the direction of

it is these people who are closest people and know their problems first hand.

But the campaign will be led by Sánchez himself.

In fact, the president's first stop will be in

the only major mayor's office that the socialists maintain in

after the debacle last June at the polls.

It is about changing the trend not only demographically, but of perception among citizens: trying to move away from the image of a president on the Falcon, as illustrated by the opposition, with a preference for the international agenda.

They want to show a Sánchez without the suit, a Sánchez who walks down the street, talks to people, goes into shops... While teaching about government action.

From there, as they say in the socialist leadership, until the end of the year the president and general secretary will participate in some 30 events throughout Spain, most of them will be territorial days hand in hand with the local world.

A strategy that will be approved in the Executive of the party that is celebrated next Monday, August 29.

Diaz's case is even more complex.

The vice president, who began her phase of rapprochement with citizens in July, also has the challenge of articulating a political project in which the weight falls on civil protagonists and the political parties play a secondary role.

An ambitious but complicated objective, knowing also that Díaz seeks with her platform the reunification of the forces to the left of the PSOE through a conglomerate that forms a broad front with electoral power.

But the truth is that so far the process of listening to Díaz has barely taken its first steps.

Despite the fact that two months ago the second vice-president of the Government officially presented the

which to carry out this approach to citizens, only one more act has been held.

It was in

just two weeks after the starting gun.

The Minister of Labor will concentrate her approach to citizens in the last months before Christmas, in parallel to how the PSOE plans to do so.

Next week, in fact, he will take his listening

where he will meet with "unpopulated" Spain in

(Lugo), and it is planned that from then until Christmas he will visit various points in Spain before addressing, already in January, the political gear of his project.

In the

branch of the Executive, it is considered that the General State Budgets, whose negotiation has already begun, are the opportunity to win the first votes for the following elections.

The also Minister of Labor has started the political course harshly, attacking businessmen and urging them to support the next increase in the SMI that Díaz intends to achieve in these public accounts.

The committee of experts delegated to study the operation, in fact, will meet next Friday, just one day after Sumar's act in

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