The leader of the Basque socialists, Eneko Andueza, ironically said this Sunday, at the rally he shared at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao with Pedro Sánchez and Patxi López, that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has put two campaigns behind him, in this electoral race towards November 29: "His and ours." "Because every time he speaks, he does us a favor. It's the only thing we can thank him for. He has become the best asset for the PSOE," he joked. Whether you're talking about the future of pensions or sick leave... or Donald Trump. “Disrespecting the president of the United States is a mistake,” warned the leader of the Popular Party.
And Feijóo has once again paid for, according to socialist strategists, Sánchez's electoral speech. “They are brave, they are very brave,” the Chief Executive assured about the president of the PP and also about the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. Both are, in the opinion of the general secretary of the PSOE, the incarnation in Spain of the “far-right wave” that is sweeping the world, but which has just suffered, as he has highlighted, two serious setbacks with the re-election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and with the defeat of the Republicans in the mid-term elections in the United States that could anticipate the beginning of the end for Trump.
Sánchez has thus warned that if Feijóo and Abascal were to govern after the next 29-N, they would bow to all the demands of the president of the United States. And he has pointed out that, contrary to what he has done, the leaders of the PP and Vox would not dare to oppose Trump: “These swallow everything!” he cried. With the increase in military spending up to 5% of GDP at the expense of the welfare state, with the war in Iran or with the “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “With anything!” he warned.
“That is why on November 29 we have to vote strongly, to have a brave government that defends the interests of Spain,” Sánchez demanded. “We are going to tell him, who believes he is the sheriff of the world – in reference to Trump – that what happens in Spain is decided in Spain, and that it is not decided in Washington or Tel Aviv, nor in Buenos Aires or Moscow,” he assured, putting the president of the United States in the same bag with the Israeli Beniamin Netanyahu, the Argentine Javier Milei or the Russian Vladimir Putin. “Spain is a sovereign country, and it is not going to be the backyard of any far-right international,” the socialist leader stressed.
Sánchez has once again appealed to the mobilization of the progressive electorate to repeat the move of the general elections three years ago, when most of the polls also already showed an incontestable absolute majority for Feijóo and Abascal, which in the end was not such and allowed him to be sworn in again as President of the Government. "We have shown that hope is much stronger than hate, thanks to the strength of the people. In 2023, when they said that everything was lost, the people mobilized and defeated the involution," he recalled. “And then Brazil arrived, and the people mobilized and defeated the involution,” so that the progressive Lula was re-elected and the ultra Flávio Bolsonaro chose to emigrate. “And then the United States arrived, the epicenter of the entire far-right international, and the people have mobilized and defeated the involution,” he insisted.
Faced with "these hard years of the far-right wave", Sánchez has vindicated his refusal to increase military spending to 5% - "we said no to Trump because we want to continue paying for our children's education", he alleged -, and his rejection of the war in Iran like the war in Iraq twenty years ago, or the denunciation of the "genocide" in Gaza. “Those of us who have been the lighthouse among so much darkness, next 29-N we are going to mobilize again and we are going to defeat the involution again,” he encouraged. “We were the first in 2023, and in 2026 we will be the next,” he confided.
“No society advances by traveling to the past,” the socialist leader warned against the PP and Vox, in an intervention in which he no longer made any reference to the Urda railway accident or the resignation of Óscar Puente. And he highlighted that Feijóo is asking for the vote for Vox in Guipúzcoa, Girona and Tarragona, on the Senate lists. "To go sooner and further in social achievements, I do not ask for a simple majority, I ask for a broad and progressive majority in the next Parliament. "We are going to do as in the United States on November 29, we are going for the Congress and we are also going for the Senate," he encouraged, in reference to the joint lists of the PSOE and Frente Amplio for the Upper House.
