Natalia Puga Santiago

Santiago

Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-9:31 p.m.

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One week before the polls, the PP mobilizes its territorial representatives to support Alfonso Rueda and spur the campaign. The weekend belonged to Juanma Moreno, who came to "push together" and warn of the risk of considering the elections won before the 18th, since "trust is one of the biggest traitors to electoral success." On Thursday, Isabel Diaz Ayuso will take over, who already in the pre-campaign warned in

A Coruña

about the risks of dividing the right-wing vote and will lend her support to maintain the absolute majority.

To redouble his efforts and convey his message, Alfonso Rueda already has Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Mariano Rajoy, who tour Galicia with their own caravan. The

popular

candidate has thanked the presence of Juanma Moreno, "the caliph", as a "representative" of all the regional presidents, who, according to him, call him daily "and want to be here."

This landing of the party is a clear example of the importance of these elections at a state level, the first meeting after 23-J and the investiture agreements, and Rueda has assured that the barons of his party, in those daily calls, tell him that It is "the hope and the thermometer of what Spain thinks of [Pedro] Sánchez."

Juanma Moreno, who did a double this Saturday with a rally in

Santiago

and a dinner-rally in

Sanxenxo

, has confirmed that this electoral event will be "one of the most important that will be held in Spain in the coming years" and has shown his confidence that they will win "handily."

The Andalusian president has appeared as the candidate's "opening act" before 500 people in the capital of Galicia and has revealed that, since he joined the PP, he has looked at Galicia "with a point of admiration" because with

Manuel Fraga

, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and now Rueda, "has always been a beacon for all the

popular people

of Spain", a reference, "the mirror where we all look at ourselves to grow."

In addition to praising the "great policies of reform, momentum and progress" of the successive PP governments since 1990, he has asked for the vote so that Rueda remains president of the Xunta and that the community does not go beyond "stability, seriousness and political rigor" to the "instability of the biggest political mess that there could be in Galicia" with a left-wing multiparty government.

The Andalusian president defines it as "a cocktail of parties without the capacity to govern that are going to get the citizens of Galicia into trouble" and remembers that, for the elections to go well, they have to "put all their effort into the bargain." and "that no one should be left without voting, because they may regret it the next day."

Looking ahead to the last week of the campaign, Rueda redoubles efforts to fight against this excess of confidence that can demobilize the

popular

voter . "I want no one to be overconfident," he asked, and confessed that he always prefers to stick with the most negative polls, with special mention to that of the

CIS

, which in its polls cast doubt on the majority of the PP in such a way that, facing the last scrutiny, scheduled for Monday, "it will send the message that the PP is better off not presenting itself because it is not going to win any deputies."

The PP candidate has hardened his tone towards the BNG, his main rival in these elections, which he wants to remove "the mask" and insist that "it is being whitened", but the identity issue is the priority point of his program. He has contrasted his separatism with the PP's respect for the territorial organization of the State: "Galicia is part of Spain and we all want to be equal."

Rueda began by ironically saying that the BNG has rescued the "old glory of

Beiras

", the historic leader with whom in January it sealed the reconciliation of Galician nationalism, to move on to direct criticism of its links with Basque nationalism. "If they were brave, sincere and transparent," Rueda insisted, they would invite

Arnaldo Otegi

to Galicia .