Feijóo affirms himself before his own 'plebiscite' prepared to "play poker" with Vox

• Feijóo raises his referendum on Sánchez at the end of the campaign: "Between Sanchismo or Spain, Spain"
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"It's going to photo finish everything." In the PP they have closed the campaign with a mixture of undisguised optimism and forced containment. Internal polls point to a narrow victory of the popular in key territories and a clear victory in local elections. It happens that, although everything goes well for the PP, the day after tomorrow another film will begin, that of the parliamentary sums with Vox. Alberto Núñez Feijóo dreams of leaving out of the equation of governance those of Santiago Abascal, there d d

Onde sumen. One of the star candidates sums it up like this: "We are going to play poker, because the alternative for Vox is to sink in the generals for not allowing the PP to govern."

Although Feijóo has told his candidates that they will be free to explore pacts, the truth is that these hypothetical negotiations would appeal directly to the opposition leader. The leadership of the PP wanted to turn the elections into a national plebiscite, and that, of course, has ended up putting all the spotlights on its leader. Feijóo, which is also played in good part tomorrow. That is why the Galician leader has multiplied during the campaign, with almost fifty acts – between the officials and the electoral walks – and about 20,000 kilometers traveled. So many, that sometimes that has played tricks on him, as when in

said to be in

. Yesterday, he tweeted an image of himself inside the car with the message "last hours in the office these weeks".

"The question is: does the party of

Sanchez

or the party of Feijóo?", they say in

. "And we believe that the answer will be that on Sunday the street of Genoa will be cut and not

", they reply. This has a back and forth reading: if this strategy goes well, it will strengthen Feijóo, but if the PP does not meet the expectations it set for itself, it will suffer a hard blow in the face of the definitive battle, that of the general elections at the end of the year.

And what are those expectations? Win in votes the municipal and snatch at least one of the great squares of autonomic power of the

PSOE

. In this order of importance and possibilities:

. In Genoa they clarify that "on a mental level it is not the same not to get a territory than to lose it". Yes

fails to unseat

Ximo Puig

"at first", it will not be "so serious", while if Puig stops governing in the main socialist fiefdom it will be "checkmate to Sánchez".

In addition, the

They see the absolute majority at hand in

and do not rule out

Give the bell

in other regions such as

and

or even

, although they privately acknowledge that this is a difficult hypothesis. And in Madrid and Murcia a comfortable victory is discounted, with the doubt of whether they will reach the absolute majority

Fernando Lopez Miras

and

Isabel Diaz Ayuso

, after sublimating Feijóo's strategy of taking the campaign to the national pitch.

That nationalization of the campaign

culminated last night

at the closing ceremony, in Madrid. Before the 2,700 people who filled the Ifema Congress Palace, Feijóo wanted to explain for the last time what "repealing sanchismo" consists of. "Between the lies or the word, the word. Between rapists and victims, victims. Between

Bildu

or dignity, dignity. Between the PSOE and democratic quality, democratic quality. Between Sanchismo or Spain, Spain," he summarized. "The alternative is chaos," he harangued his people.

Rise at the expense of the PSOE

As for the municipal, we must remember that the PP stayed in 2019 to 1.6 million votes of the PSOE. Slightly less than he got

Cs

. Now the challenge of the

It is to absorb that electorate and try to pierce socialist territory. In Genoa they are convinced that there is a part of the moderate voters of the PSOE who change to Feijóo. Of course: not so much now as in the general. "In the municipal elections the PSOE is stronger," says a leader who receives the

, which note "a rise of the PP at the expense of the PSOE" in recent weeks. But those same polls detect that Vox "remains strong", or "with a high floor".

"The campaign has served above all to mobilize the undecided, and there were more undecided leftists, because the vote fidelity of the right was greater. So this was to see how many of those people who voted for the PSOE four years ago were convinced by Sánchez to vote for it again." «To the PSOE

He has done poorly in the campaign

. The first week was that of Bildu and the second was that of

, that of the kidnapping of a councillor, that of the councillor of

Arrested for assault on a person who criticized him... and that of everything that has happened around the PSOE. When anything goes to be in power, these things happen and votes are bought in several places," they add.

PP

IN 2019...

It lost almost one million votes, to 5,154,728, 22.62% and 20,364 councilors (22,750 in 2015).

3 GOVERNMENTS

. In 2019, the alliance with Cs allowed him to keep the Executive in Madrid (alone Ayuso after the advance of 2021), Murcia and Castilla y León. At the end of 2018 it turned around in Andalusia (absolute majority already in 2022) and in 2020 it revalidated Galicia.

ASPIRE TO...

Unseat PSOE barons such as Puig, Lambán and Gª-Page. He seeks an absolute majority in Madrid – city and region – and to be able to govern in capitals such as Valencia and Seville.