In a start to the campaign marked by controversy due to the inclusion of 44 convicted of terrorism in the Bildu lists, the PSOE is determined to continue with its cruising speed in terms of advertisements to try to take initiative and overcome the controversy. First it was a battery of advertisements on Housing, with a focus on the construction of real estate for social rental. After millionaire investments in Education every Tuesday. Now the focus is on Health. Announcements to confront the cuts that, exposed from the PSOE, were made at the time of the PP government. And again Pedro Sánchez anticipating a measure of the Council of Ministers in a socialist act.
In Valencia, in what is considered the central act of this campaign for the municipal and regional elections, the President of the Government and leader of the PSOE announced that next Tuesday, the Council of Ministers will approve a final game of 580 million euros to improve infrastructure and Primary Care equipment.
a game already approved
This ad is actually not new. On April 17, the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System approved the criteria for the distribution of more than 579 million for Primary Care infrastructures, corresponding to the Plan for the Improvement of Primary Care Infrastructures and the Strategic Framework for Primary and Community Care. Sánchez's announcement introduces the novelty that this game will be approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers. The date is new.
In this regard, socialist sources consulted by the millions that Sánchez is announcing in this campaign state that all the items are included in the budgets
The autonomous communities, according to government sources, must allocate these 580 million euros to modernize and improve the more than 13,000 centers that already exist in our country and finance with this item new physiotherapy, radiodiagnostic and emergency rooms to avoid waiting, saturation or unnecessary travel.
The PSOE appeals to health as an electoral asset against the PP, with the intention of opposing the discourse of defense of public health against that of privatization and cuts. An issue, that of health, which is a matter of concern and concern in Valencia, but which, above all, is currently hot in the Community of Madrid. On the other hand, the President of the Government has not mentioned other issues that are the cause of demand in Valencia, from his own candidates, such as regional financing or water.
In this argument of appealing to Health as an element in opposition to the PP, the President of the Government wanted to emphasize in his rally that “three of the four communities that spend the least per inhabitant are led by the PP and none by the PSOE. The first is Madrid.”
Sánchez is already immersed in the request for the vote, in a strategy to mobilize his own, and that is where the cascade of announcements that he is making in the campaign come in, with which the Socialists want to encourage their electorate, while trying to capture votes of the undecided and moderates. And this approach contributes to giving the feeling that the leader of the PSOE is monopolizing the leading role and turning these regional elections into a first round of the general elections.
“What matters on 28-M is to defend public health. We choose between public health or cuts. Public health or privatization”, has been his call to vote from the City of Arts and Sciences, in an act, where according to the figures provided by the PSOE, 6,000 people have gathered.
“Now that we have to decide the vote and some are thinking about whether it is important to go to vote, we have to see that the vote we choose does matter, whether the one that privatizes the health system or the one that reverses the cuts in dependency or builds hospitals public. The vote that imposes co-payments or lifts pharmaceutical co-payments”, Sánchez explained in his speech.