The right-left axis elections

The election campaign began at midnight, which is the same as always but better. Polls predict a comfortable absolute majority for PP and VOX, below 200 seats but clearly above the necessary seats, which are 176. All the polls? No. As if it were Asterix's Gaulish village, the CIS resists the invasive pessimism and left the PP and Vox without an absolute majority and with the PSOE as the winner, and able to join with the left to form a government. In favor of this survey, it must be said that it was conducted with 45,000 people, and that should make it especially reliable.

With or without CIS, the PSOE has gone all out (well, without Óscar Puente, or Ábalos, or Cerdán, or Montse Mínguez) because Sánchez never throws in the towel. To the point that tonight, at the start of the campaign, he had his wife come out, who is awaiting oral trial. And the rally has been about the vindication of women.

Begoña Gómez: “Let no one decide for us, for we define our own path, let it weigh on whoever it may and let them say whatever they say. What do we want? Well, what we want is to continue choosing our own path, choosing our own time, our dreams about our own body, without being continuously questioned, sisters, continuously questioned”.

Meanwhile, Feijóo has started the campaign in Badalona. Do not miss the chronicle written by Badalona native Toni Soler: “The Galician is a cold man, with little sense of humor; the production works miracles. The PP filled (almost) the pavilion in the Llefià neighborhood, in Badalona, which means a thousand people, mostly senior citizens, many of whom arrived by bus. Why did the PP decide to start the electoral campaign in Badalona? In part because Vox is strong in Catalonia. And also because Badalona has become, thanks to the popularity of its mayor, the state symbol of hatred towards squatters and illegal immigrants”.

Esquerra is no longer going to challenge Junts for the pro-independence vote. Rufián is seeking the left-wing vote, with the argument of urgency in the face of the enemy. And he must fight against the PSC, the beneficiary of the useful vote, and against the Broad Front of the comuns.

Gabriel Rufián: “There is no correct way to be Catalan. And we believe, because we are, the national left of Catalonia. And we embrace everyone. And hopefully, one day, the comuns will also come. Hopefully. We do not hand out purity cards, us”.

In fact, Rufián held two rallies yesterday. One in the morning, in Congress, in which he attacked Junts with his usual fury. And this one in the afternoon in Tarragona.

These elections do not look good for Junts, which is falling in the polls. Junts insists on the national axis (as a first step of the social axis) in an election that is about right versus left (Spanish), and its main asset, Carles Puigdemont, appeared again yesterday through a screen.

The debates will come and fifteen days are a world. We will be here to analyze it.

Good morning.