Sánchez and Feijóo fight the battle on the same day in Extremadura due to the uncertainty of the results on Sunday

With five days to go before 28-M, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo met this Tuesday at two rallies in Extremadura, a traditionally socialist stronghold with the exception of a single legislature, that of 2011-2015, where José Antonio Monago governed ( PP). Both national leaders also did so at the same time, in the afternoon and at 7:00 p.m.. One in Badajoz, the socialist, and the other, the popular leader, in Cáceres.

Mere coincidence? In politics, nothing is coincidence. It is true that the President of the Government postponed his first campaign visit to Extremadura lands that was scheduled for last Friday due to the serious fire that Las Hurdes and Sierra de Gata have suffered these days. And he moved it to Tuesday, just when Feijóo was also doing it, just 11 days after having also chosen Extremadura, in this case Badajoz, for the first campaign act, the pasting of posters.

What is behind this interest? The main thing is that Guillermo Fernández Vara would win elections in number of votes but would lose the absolute majority next Sunday and would need United We Can if this party maintains its current position (four deputies).. That would allow the governance of the left block in the face of the advance in recent months on the other side of the board.

Feijóo, in Cáceres with the PP candidates María Guardiola and Rafael Mateos. V. Rose EFE

According to the majority of published surveys, including those of the CIS (it gives 28-29 deputies to the PSOE and 24-25 to the PP), the center-right bloc is given serious options (it would be one or two deputies in the sum) before the advance of María Guardiola, the new leader of the PP in this region and the entry for the first time in the Vox Assembly. The absolute majority is 33 seats.

So the PP believes it has a historic opportunity like it did in 2011. And this is how Feijóo expressed it: “I realized when I came to the rallies in Monago that we were going to govern Extremadura and the last times I have come I have bought that you are going to have a woman for the first time at the head of the Junta -in reference to María Guardiola- and that we are going to do double in Badajoz and in Cáceres”, predicted.

The national president of the popular called for a vote in favor of “normality because we are not perfect but we are infinitely superior to the government we have, Sanchismo, which in these five years has only caused division and confrontation among the Spanish people”. For Extremadura, he also promised that his Minister of Transport will visit this region every three months when he governs to “give an account” of the work to complete the AVE route.

In Badajoz, and also saving the rain, Pedro Sánchez stressed that his government has had “many difficulties”. In fact, the socialist leader baptized his presidency as “the legislature of the pandemic and of war”, thus evoking what “we could do with the wind in favor and not against it”. And he stuck out that the legislature “of employment and rights” has been despite the “apocalypse that the right always announces”. And he gave as examples the increase in the SMI “by 47%”, the labor reform, the increase of 2,520 million euros in scholarships for young people or the increase in ICU beds in Health or health professionals with respect to the governments of Mariano Rajoy.

“We will never say that this is a miracle, nor that Spain is doing well because there are many problems to be solved,” even giving the Extremadura train as an example, which promised to improve it in the coming years.. “We govern Spain better and we govern the economy better because we do not think of the elite, of those above, and we do it with social peace”. For this, he gave as an example the more than 20 million members of Social Security.