Marisa Cruz Madrid
Martha Belver
Madrid
Updated Thursday, February 1, 2024-20:38
Elections Yolanda Díaz and her ministers disembark in Galicia to save Sumar
CIS The Tezanos survey once again stands out from the rest and calls into question the absolute majority of the PP in Galicia
The electoral campaign begins in Galicia and the battle between parties is presented as the first test to gauge the strength of the two blocks that fight on the political board. On the right, the PP is fighting alone to retain its absolute majority. On the left, BNG and PSOE, with a clear predominance of the former, are trying to combine enough force to break with a coalition the long cycle of popular reign in the Xunta.
The PP, with
Alfonso Rueda
, heir to
Alberto Núñez Feijóo
, at the helm, harbors a fear: the burden that the candidacy of Vox, a party to which no poll grants representation but which could wastefully monopolize between two and three percent of the votes that, in its absence, would mostly be added to the popular
harvest
.
Despite this inconvenience, which Rueda will try to avert by making continuous calls for useful votes, the PP believes that it will enter the campaign backed by the satisfaction that Galicians have shown with their politics since 2009, when Feijóo obtained an absolute majority that has been confirmed. till the date.
Rueda has stated before the Steering Committee of his party that he intends to show off all the management of recent years, thus trying to neutralize the economic and social discourse that they expect the PSOE to deploy and the reproaches for not having supported measures such as the increase in pensions. To do this, the candidate will have the presence of Feijóo himself, who will participate in a large event in Pontevedra and in others closer to the population throughout the community.
Furthermore, the
popular ones
, once they consider the pellet crisis on Galician beaches averted, intend to use the great national debates in their favor. They consider that the amnesty sponsored by the socialists in exchange for
Carles Puigdemont
's support for the investiture of
Pedro Sánchez
and its controversial processing in Congress could be an electoral asset, to which they will add the list of concessions to the Catalan independence groups, placing them as example of discrimination towards the rest of the territories.
In this sense, the PP will insist on the message, already launched by Feijóo, that the loss of its absolute majority would imply for the Galicians to have a Government like that of the nation, that is, subject to the interests of formations such as Bildu, Junts and CKD. The
popular
Galicians will defend that it would be better for national politics to resemble the Galician one and not the other way around.
In Genoa, however, they do not give significance at the regional level to the argument, which they assume will be used by both the socialists and the nationalists, of the lack of renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (
CGPJ
), even though the next meeting that is due maintain
Félix Bolaños
and
Esteban González Pons
with the mediation of Commissioner
Didier Reynders
, coinciding with the halfway point of the campaign.
For their part, in the PSOE they expected to reach this campaign with the amnesty approved in Congress and the public debate around it overlapped by the economic and social measures that the coalition Government has implemented in just over two months that have passed since its constitution. However, Junts' decision to overturn the law in its first vote keeps alive the latest controversy generated by Puigdemont's demand to extend forgiveness to cases of terrorism and treason.
Even so, Ferraz's management considers that the national key to these elections will benefit their candidate,
José Ramón Gómez Besteiro
, arguing that this will increase participation and, therefore, the mobilization of voters located on their ideological spectrum. In the last call to decide the Presidency of the It surpassed the hegemonic party of the right by more than six points.
The situation that the socialists face on
February 18
entails the risk of worsening their current representation in the Galician Parliament, where they have
14 of the 75 seats
, a figure that to date has marked their bottom. At the same time, they hope to be able to access the Government through a coalition with the BNG in which they would be the minority partner, since they have had to discard their objective of snatching second place from the nationalists, of whom they recognize that " "They are very strong."
What is worrying now for Sánchez's team is that Sumar and Podemos will not win any deputies - as many polls predict - after having decided to run separately in these elections, which could hinder the option of a left-wing alternative. After the attempt to equate the pellet crisis with the
Prestige
spill in 2012, they are now going to revolve their messages around the fact that the PP voted less than a month ago against some decrees that have allowed pensions to be revalued, extend free public transportation and maintain the reduction in VAT on food, as they did this Thursday at their campaign opening rally in which Besteiro was supported by the First Vice President, María Jesús
Montero
.