Ministers Bolaños, Robles, Marlaska and López join together to try to attract non-PSOE voters in their first campaign event without Sánchez
Margarita Robles, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Félix Bolaños appeal to uncarded PSOE and centrist voters at an event in Madrid.
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Three PSOE ministers running in the 29-N elections in Madrid have asked moderate citizens without party cards to vote to stop the "ultra-right", in an event without the presence of Pedro Sánchez.
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Why It Matters
PSOE ministers on the electoral list for Madrid seek to expand their voter base by appealing to the political center.
In a non-rally format, the three ministers who are participating in the 29-N elections to Congress on the Madrid list headed by Pedro Sánchez, absent from the event because he was at a rally in Bilbao, have asked this Sunday to vote from those like two of them - Margarita Robles and Fernando Grande-Marlaska - who do not even have a PSOE card and those who support other political options. And not just those located to your left.
The most explicit in the attempt to attract support among citizens ideologically situated in a center position has been Félix Bolaños, number three in the candidacy. "Democrats, sensible, moderate, reasonable people, who do not raise their voices, do not insult, do not hyperventilate... have to choose the socialist ticket to prevent the ultra wave that has already stopped in Brazil from also occurring in Spain," proclaimed the head of the Presidency and Justice portfolio at an event at the Conde Duque center in the capital.
The general secretary of the PSOE of Madrid, also minister Óscar López, has also focused on the strategy of appealing to the useful vote. The argument he has put forward is that in the region there are "more than a million and a half progressives" who are mobilizing in the elections but that the only formula to stop "the extreme right" in the face of a PP that "has become a photocopy of Vox" is to support Sánchez at the polls: "It is the way. The end."
During his speech at the presentation of his candidacy for Congress for the Madrid constituency, of which he is number two, he appealed to "millions of Spaniards who, whether they have a license or not, feel that they are in solidarity, that a more just society is necessary." "Here we have been working for 10 years with feeling, heart, empathy... and only we know that," said the Minister of Defense, who declared that she continues to believe "firmly" in the president's project of which she has been a part since her return to the Ferraz leadership in 2017.
Open Questions
- How will centrist voters react to the PSOE call?
- Will the progressive mobilization materialize in Madrid?







