In the final stretch of the campaign, the strategies vary. What was not considered appropriate before, now is. It was one of the doubts of the face to face between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo: if the socialist candidate would refer to the photo of the popular leader with the narco Marcial Dorado. It did not. But the PSOE, just a few days before the vote, does resort to the snapshot. Sánchez has not done so, who has staged an express meeting in Huesca, arriving at 8:43 p.m. from Brussels and leaving at 9:05 p.m.. Yes, Minister Pilar Alegría, who served as the opening act in an act in which Javier Lambán, leader of the PSOE in Aragón, did not intervene, it being the usual trend that territorial leaders do have a presence at these rallies.
The Socialists have brought out all their artillery to try to make the Feijóo=liar association enter the collective imagination after the PP candidate gave erroneous information stating that his party when it has governed has always revalued pensions according to the CPI. “He defines himself as a politician with traceability. Today we already know what its traceability is”, Alegría exposed at the Huesca rally. “It is a lie, because he has lied to us when he said that the PP voted in favor of revaluing pensions […] he is even hiding his seafaring friends from us”, has been the reference.
A few hours before, the vice president Teresa Ribera had been much more explicit when criticizing the absence of Feijóo in the debate that is held this Wednesday on TVE. “What do you have to hide, Mr. Feijóo? Why don't you want to go? Are you a drug trafficker on a yacht? Is it your management at the head of the Xunta de Galicia? Is it your lack of ideas?”
The first prominent member of the Government to put this argument on the table, however, had been the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, who this weekend, for example, challenged the popular candidate to explain his “friendship” with the Galician drug trafficker and his photo on a boat with him. “Mr. Feijóo, come to the debate on the 19th and explain to the Spanish what your relationship with drug trafficking was.”
Sánchez has made an express trip from Brussels to participate in the event, interrupting his presence at the EU-Celac Summit and absenting himself from the gala dinner. An intervention of barely 20 minutes in which he has also influenced the idea of introducing the framework that Feijóo is a liar. “Feijóo does not tell the truth or to the doctor”, the socialist candidate has ironized. “The truth is that PP and Vox have systematically voted against the revaluation of pensions. Feijóo went to Brussels to tell them that the pension reform where the revaluation was shielded by law was a mistake and that the European Commission had to say no to the norm. That is what the PP has done: boycott the reform that shields the revaluation of pensions.
Upset in the PSOE of Aragon by the “veto” to Lambán
Javier Lambán, leader of the socialists of Aragon, did not intervene in the act. Party sources in this community explain that they found out about the celebration of this act from the press and that they did not receive an official invitation to attend.. However, he has attended it, yes, without speaking. In addition to Sánchez y Alegría, Begoña Nasarre, number one on the list to Congress for Huesca, has intervened. The usual thing is that the territorial leader also intervenes in this type of act.
The sources consulted describe this fact as “unusual” because, they argue, for example this weekend in the acts that Sánchez starred in, the leaders of the communities did intervene: Ximo Puig in Valencia and Salvador Illa in Catalonia. “He has been excluded,” they say. Lambán is one of the socialist barons who has been most critical of Sánchez and his policy of pacts with the nationalists.
Sánchez and Lambán have not greeted each other. The leader of the PSOE of Aragon has left the act after finishing the intervention of the candidate for the Presidency of the Government.