From Brussels, Sánchez redoubles his strategy against Feijóo and Ayuso: "They want to muddy politics because they are full of mud"

Raúl PiñaSpecial envoy Brussels

Brussels Special Envoy

Updated Friday, March 22, 2024-15:34

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The "behavior" of politicians is increasingly worrying Spaniards. According to the latest

CIS

data , it is now the third problem for citizens, only behind the economic crisis (29%) and unemployment (18%), and recording its highest since the summer of 2021, 16.8 %, almost five points more than in February, when it was in sixth place. But the decibels continue to rise. The Government and the PSOE have decided to clash with the PP. Attack by attack. The decision of the Justice Department to accept the Prosecutor's complaint and open a case against Ayuso's partner for tax fraud leads Pedro Sánchez to redouble his strategy against Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso from

Brussels

.

"Neither Mr. Feijóo nor Mrs. Ayuso have any excuses to demand his dismissal or resignation. Let the PP assume its responsibility and demand Ayuso's resignation," was, once again, the message from the President of the Government, this time from the capital. European Union, where he traveled this week to participate in the

European Council

. In

Madrid

, Brussels or wherever, the dialectical escalation of Spanish politics crosses borders and persecutes the leaders of the main parties. But the strategies do not change. And the noise continues to increase.

The President of the Government presents himself as a victim and offloads the responsibility for the polarization on the PP. He speaks of "asymmetric polarization: there are people who insult and people who are insulted; people who attack and we are attacked; people who lie and others who try to make the truth the way of doing politics. There can be no equidistance." A message in which he has also put the media in the spotlight: "It is not an issue that only affects the parties that suffer from this way of doing politics. It is a challenge that concerns everyone. There are media that "The silence is clamorous in the face of the attempt to intimidate colleagues and the media by the Madrid PP and the national leadership of the PP."

The sessions seen this week in Congress have provoked criticism and discomfort even from the parties that support Pedro Sánchez. For the head of the Executive, in a strategy supported by his ministers and by

Ferraz

, the burden of blame lies with the PP. "They want to muddy politics because they are full of mud. And it is evident that there is a party that, when unfortunately we have a case of corruption, acts forcefully, exemplarily and quickly; and other parties choose to raise the noise so that the silence cannot be heard. of what they don't do."

Pedro Sánchez talks with other leaders in the family photo before the European Council, in Brussels.Olivier MatthysEFE

The Government and the PSOE consider that the attacks they are receiving from the PP are intended to "demoralize" and "demobilize the electorate." Specifically yours. They know what they are talking about because, for example, they consider that this is what happened in the regional and municipal campaign of May 2023, where the socialists suffered a debacle. Therefore, now they have decided to counteract. Reply. Don't let go. Make visible what you consider "the lies" of the PP. "It is important to reveal strategy," said Sánchez.

Sánchez's approach, despite the parliamentary fragility of the coalition, and that the Catalan elections are going to define "a new playing field", is to try to advance in the legislature, with a term horizon until 2027. It frames the criticisms of the opposition in the "frustration" that they could not govern after the general elections of July 2023 and that what "underlies is a non-recognition of the result of the polls in 2019 or 2023." He speaks of "absolutely destructive opposition", of which "there is no known proposal, solution or offer of an agreement." "Toxic opposition," is how Sánchez defines the PP, which tries to "inoculate hatred in Spanish society to polarize and confront."

Let the decibels continue to rise.