If Punky and the Pope go to vote... Sánchez says that you also have to do it
MadridThe latest CIS survey, considered by many experts to be not very credible, gives a whole host of good news to the PSOE. The most voted party, the one that can solve Spain's problems, the one that has the leader, Pedro Sánchez, whom Spaniards prefer as president... but there is a key piece of data that the socialists are focused on fighting against. A majority of respondents, despite there being an overrepresentation of left-wing voters, have a conviction: that the PP will win the elections. 54.4% of the more than 45,000 people asked believe this.
Dismantling this perception is the PSOE's primary objective. In fact, the fact that the CIS, which depends on the Spanish government, has provided such a favorable survey for the left contributes to doing so: it reinforces the message from Ferraz that not all is lost, that there is still a game to be played on November 29th and that mobilization is necessary despite the corruption cases affecting the party and the many problems, such as housing, that have not been solved in eight years.
To do this, Sánchez has three different plans: to appeal to the pools of voters who have traditionally supported the PSOE —he started the campaign in Seville and called for the female vote against Vox—; use the Moncloa as a lever to exemplify the measures it would take with a majority in Congress, and appeal to international benchmarks: the mid-term elections in the United States where the Democrats have knocked out Donald Trump, and also Lula da Silva in Brazil, who will finally not be able to be in Madrid this Monday due to illness.
On Thursday, at the start of the campaign, Sánchez entrusted himself to figures as different as Leo XIII and the singer Patti Smith to ask the progressive voter to move: “If the Punky and the Pope have voted by mail in the United States, we will not stay at home on November 29th. [...] If we vote in mass, we send Feijóo and Abascal home”. It has been a long time since elections were won by whoever mobilizes the most.
