More than a million and a half viewers were tuned to La Sexta on Tuesday night when Greater Wyoming asked the Prime Minister live if he wears boxer briefs, slips or thongs. “Come on, what if I tell you that I'm not wearing any of that…”, an uninhibited and smiling Pedro Sánchez replied, an image that the citizens who will have to decide on July 23 whether to continue or not are not exactly used to. in La Moncloa.
His time on the set of El Intermedio was the culmination of a key week for the electoral expectations of the PSOE, since they consider that it has allowed them to “gain momentum” before the campaign that will begin in just 10 days. They have not had to put out any fire -such as the one that caused them, for example, the inclusion of 44 convicted of terrorism in the Bildu lists for the regional and municipal elections- and they have been able to “place” their messages “by two lanes “: that of management, which is the “soil” on which they want to establish their strategy, and that of the “explosion” of the PP and Vox pacts.
“What has happened is the endorsement of what we have been announcing for a long time. It is not only necessary to warn that the wolf is coming, it is that it is happening, it is not a toast to the sun “, they argue in the national address of Ferraz. His analysis is that “the ultra-right is going to a program of maximums”, alluding to the demands that Santiago Abascal's party is putting on the table in exchange for his support for the formation of governments, which in the ranks of Alberto Núñez Feijóo they are “taking it naturally.”
This circumstance, as they point out in the socialist leadership, can already be “verified empirically in many municipalities”, starting with the 52 in which their list was the most voted for and the PP and Vox have reached agreements for the constitution of coalitions , as in Valladolid. Among the direct consequences of these first alliances, they cite the elimination of bike lanes and the removal of LGTBI flags from public buildings as a preview of the environmental and social rights policies that they predict will be applied.
At the moment, the exception to the pacts signed between the right-wing formations has been Extremadura, where the failure of the negotiations has also allowed Guillermo Fernández Vara to step forward and announce that he will appear for the investiture despite the fact that in the same night of the recount, he took it for granted that he had no chance of revalidating his mandate. The PSOE candidate and winner of the elections still does not have a real chance of success, since he only has insufficient support from Podemos, but in his party they highlight the “exercise of responsibility” that has allowed “starting the clock” to the constitution of the Government or the electoral repetition.
In Ferraz, they are also very satisfied with the result of the interview with Sánchez last Monday on Onda Cero because they understand that it has served them to demonstrate in “non-affiliated” media with a “more conservative editorial line” that they have “answers” and can “explain them to other audiences”. Among them, that of the pardons for those convicted of the process, which was one of the questions that Carlos Alsina raised on the air as an example of the “lies” of the president, and that his interlocutor justified because “Catalonia today is not one of the principals of the citizens and yes it was five years ago”.
And after his participation in El Intermedio, the head of the central executive will attend El Hormiguero this Tuesday with Pablo Motos. In the PSOE engine room, they justify that this casual search that they had not resorted to during the rest of the legislature because “it was not the time” due to the “difficult management” that they have had to face now allows them to reach a “Different public” that is not aware of political programs or news programs and on prime time television.
In addition, Sánchez's team believes that the conditions that the popular ones are setting for the electoral debates with “all kinds of hits” and “strange formulas” in the end will “negatively affect” Feijóo and will be “positive” for them. “In Genoa they assume that they are going to wear out, but it is not because they are ahead in the polls, but because their candidate does not navigate well in that format,” they underline.
The “favorable wind” to which the president appealed in all the regional and municipal campaign rallies and which in that scrutiny turned against him is now blowing in the right demographic direction for left-wing options. In recent weeks, the polls have reflected a narrowing of the margin between the sum of the votes of the PSOE and Sumar -the brand with which Yolanda Díaz and Podemos will attend the appointment with the polls- to the detriment of that of PP and Vox, which Even so, it continues to touch the absolute majority.