The Socialists had designed a campaign that, at least at the present time, consisted of announcing specific measures for certain profiles of the population. From the meeting to the Council of Ministers. And there they framed the concatenation of announcements on housing, which went on to measures for young people and, later, to fight against the drought.

Until now, Moncloa and Ferraz have been sticking to this strategy because it helped them set an agenda and differentiate themselves from a PP that they accuse of not having their own project.. It even served them to catch United Podemos on the wrong foot, which has been finding out about these measures in the press, and to try to steal some of the flags of the purples, such as the one for housing.

[Sánchez avoids talking about Bildu at his first campaign rally and focuses on ripping off the local vote]

But now the focus has shifted. Proof of this is that this Saturday in Seville, at his first official campaign rally, Pedro Sánchez announced that he is going to carry out a legal reform to implement the right to be forgotten oncology and the measure, which would surely have the support of many forces policies, has gone completely unnoticed. Sánchez has not mentioned Bildu.

The collateral damage can even reach the housing measures that the PSOE has been promoting after the approval of the Housing Law: not only has Bildu been essential to carry out the norm, it is that it was the Basques together with ERC who presented the agreement .

This situation has served the PP to catch air and even find a vein in trying to pit the PSOE candidates against the leadership of the president. “If neither Sánchez nor Sánchez's candidates defend the dignity of our nation, of our democracy, of our Constitution and, above all, of the victims of terrorism, the PP will do so,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo said this Saturday in an act in Getafe.

And he added that “it would be interesting” to know “how many barons” of the PSOE have pressured Sánchez to change parliamentary allies. He did it a day after, on Friday, asking the socialist barons to demand that the Prime Minister break with Bildu or, if not, say that they were tearing up the PSOE card.

Vox has also joined this electoral front, which this Friday registered a parliamentary initiative to approve the banning of Bildu in the Congress of Deputies. He assures that the party is “the current political arm of ETA”.

A sign that the Bildu affair has caught the PSOE on the wrong foot is the absolute silence that the party maintained for a whole day. The news was released on Tuesday and, during the government control session in Congress on Wednesday, no one wanted to say anything.. Some ministers, such as spokeswoman Isabel Rodríguez, literally ran to avoid questions from journalists.

[Núñez Feijóo replies to the president: “The indecent thing is that you, Sánchez, agree and govern with Bildu”]

In the end, Pedro Sánchez himself had to talk about the matter during his visit to the US White House and said that “there are things that can be legal, but not decent”. However, he did not respond to the journalists' question as to whether this made him reconsider his agreements with Bildu.

The barons, upset

Now all eyes are on Pedro Sánchez's rally this Sunday in Puertollano. The President of the Government will coincide for the first and only time in the electoral campaign with one of his most critical barons: the President of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page.

The Castilian-Manchego has been one of the most critical, if not the most, within the PSOE with respect to the pacts with Bildu. The team of the regional president has not yet wanted to reveal if he is going to make any mention of it. Doing so could be interpreted as a direct affront to the President of the Government and not doing so would be amending part of the discourse that he has been leading.

Until now, the one who has gone the furthest has been the president of Aragon, Javier Lambán, who has said that the PSOE “must break any relationship with a party that includes murderers on its lists.”. But he has not been the only one.

[The Prosecutor's Office is studying the complaint about the 44 ETA members convicted of the Bildu lists on 28-M]

The president of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, has said that the presence of ETA members on the Bildu lists causes him “disgust”. “It disgusts me, it disgusts me… all I can say is little,” his fellow president of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, has also said.

Also the president of La Rioja, Concha Andreu, has said that it is “disgusting” and has described the movement as “not decent”.. Only the Navarrese president, María Chivite, has spoken in favor, who has praised the fact that the party went “from violence to impose its ideas on words.”

Many PSOE barons had tried in recent months to distance themselves a bit from the figure of Sánchez and that the electoral campaign should not be considered as a national issue. They had succeeded and the CIS has shown that local issues had gained weight, but this situation threatens to derail everything.