The face to face of a week ago between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo not only upset the socialist candidate, but also his team. Impotence and a lot of resignation. Waving, expressions of disbelief with the hands…. before what they understood to be a “mountain of lies” from the leader of the PP who “muddyed” that appointment and left the socialists discouraged and without initiative. The following days they tried to refute the arguments of the popular with a campaign to dismantle his statements, but the strategy did not materialize as expected. However, the erroneous affirmation that the PP when it governed always revalued pensions according to the CPI has once again opened a door to hope among the Socialists to dethrone the popular candidate from his predominant position in the axis of confidence and try to remove revenue among center voters who are still undecided.

Everyone in the PSOE jumped when they heard Feijóo say yesterday that the PP has always raised pensions according to the CPI, and that he himself did it in the Senate by voting in favor of a motion. It was not the first time, he did it a week ago, but now they do believe that the “lie” can grant them a good handful of votes.

“The lie is a framework that is being installed,” they appreciate from the PSOE engine room. “Among the undecided, the lie is devastating,” they add. According to data from the CIS flash survey published yesterday, 12.1% of voters still do not know which ballot to choose. This is, no less than 4.5 million Spaniards. If we zoom in closer and go to the guts of this poll, it can be seen that 648,286 people who voted for the PSOE in the last general elections of November 2019 state that they still do not know which party to vote for. A figure that among those who opted for the PP stands at 256,013 voters. Between the two parties there are almost a million Spaniards (904,299) who voted for them four years ago but have not yet opted for the color of the ballot this 23-J.

And that is the trick they want to play. Because those who are behind the scenes of the electoral campaigns explain that the one we are currently going through has had one of its keys in the axis of trust. Feijóo transmitted that value more than Sánchez who, in fact, on his media tour has had to put himself before his own mirror due to his “changes of opinion”. “That is not lying, it is rectifying,” he appealed to justify his twists regarding the depoliticization of the institutions or Catalonia.

Now, with the issue of pensions and the fact that Feijóo was forced to rectify, there is an opportunity to disposition the popular candidate of that axis. Trying to make up lost ground. “We are going to win the game that Feijóo lies without ruffling his hair,” state government sources.

“The truth is that the Popular Party, when it governed, did not revalue pensions and that it has voted systematically in recent years against the revaluation of pensions according to the CPI,” Sánchez said yesterday from Brussels, on the occasion of the EU summit -Celac. “This is what the Spanish deserve to know.”

In the PSOE they consider that now the argument that Feijóo is a “rogue and liar” can penetrate among the citizens because “the mask has been removed”. To this, they believe, is added that it has been possible to see the “true Feijóo” who, even giving erroneous information, challenged the journalist who asked him: “The pride that he displays is being seen.”