The regional battle is so even in the polls that the national leadership of the PP believes that the “final key” will be which side “the useful vote of Ciudadanos” decides on.. That is, that “2% or 3%” who still think about voting for the orange formation. The main opposition party will appeal to them in the final stretch of the campaign, sources from the direct environment of Alberto Núñez Feijóo assure this newspaper.
«We have a lot, a lot of interest in the Cs vote. We have to try to convince the Cs electorate that Ximo Puig and Javier Lambán only leave if they are decisive with their vote. They shield that victory for the PP, “they analyze in the popular leadership. “They are not going to enter, but if their votes go to the PP, there is a change of government in both autonomies,” they insist. The same would happen in the Balearic Islands, add PP sources from this community.
Indeed, the internal polls of the PP in the Valencian Community, Aragon and the Balearic Islands suggest that the right-wing block could add a majority by just one or two seats, so that the refuge vote of the last of Cs will be crucial. “The remains of each province depend on very few votes and can easily dance,” says one of the main leaders of Genoa.
In the Balearic Islands, the Popular Party does not have tracking in recent days, but last week PP and Vox added within the polling range. In other words, “the result is very tight” and could depend on that “3%” that is predicted for Cs, and that at the moment of truth “it will fall below 2%”, because a large part of that orange electorate will turn “to an analytical vote”, according to sources from the Balearic PP. And they add that the orange defeat will be greater, because the national leader of Cs, Patricia Guasp, is Mallorcan.
In the latest Aragon survey, to which this newspaper has access, Cs is just below the 3% threshold that marks entry into Parliament. And in the Valencian Community it is 5%, with which the PP sees “100% impossible” for the oranges to obtain representation. That is why Carlos Mazón appealed on Tuesday, in his interview with this newspaper, in a “specific” way to Ciudadanos voters: “Not concentrating the vote means running the risk that there will be no change.”
In Genoa they assure that a Ciudadanos voter no longer has reason to be suspicious of the PP, after the nods that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has given to that electorate in the last year, since he assumed power in the party. And they reveal that a good part of their latest campaign movements are “messages to Citizens”. Which is it? The signing of the former orange MEP Luis Garicano by the PP foundation, “the central message of the Plaza de Toros de Valencia” or the act with Toni Nadal, who did not hide in the past his -reciprocated- sympathy for Albert Rivera.
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Not only in these three autonomous communities does the PP believe that the Ciudadanos vote will be crucial to tip the balance of the blocks between left and right, but also in the city of Madrid: “If Villacís entered and we needed a councilor, it would be more dependency on Vox”.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo appealed to all of them, at his rally yesterday in Palma. “If you want to elect without intermediaries, vote for the Popular Party and the president of the autonomous community will come directly from the polls,” he told the Balearic PP candidate, Marga Prohens, who was just turning 41.
For Feijóo, both the president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, and Pedro Sánchez can only offer “a sum of losers, because they have already recognized their defeat and because they know that their governments do not deserve victory.”
Before the almost 1,500 people who packed the Trui Teatre in the Balearic capital, Feijóo once again insisted on the appeal to the useful vote -the axis of his speech- and added that by voting for the PP this Sunday, Marga Prohens will be president “directly and without pacts” and without having to be “kidnapped by minorities.”
“I ask those who voted for the PP but also those of other parties to vote,” added Feijóo, in a very clear appeal to the voters of Ciudadanos. “If you want a stable government that depends on nothing more than the citizens, vote for the PP,” he insisted just over 48 hours after the end of the campaign.