The President of the Government and candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, has already immersed himself fully in the electoral pre-campaign for the elections on November 29 and this Sunday he has insisted on one of the nails to which he is clinging: the expansion of the electoral roll thanks to the so-called 'Grandchildren Law', on which the Supreme Court must decide.
The leader of the PSOE reproached PP and Vox for "never liking" this rule and assured that these 400,000 Spaniards who are now prevented from voting and whose nationality was recognized, "have already voted in 2023, in 2024, in 2025 and also in the elections held in Castilla y León." According to Sánchez, given this temporary suspension of the Supreme Court, it is worth asking if "it is constitutional."
The socialist candidate has not hesitated to refer directly to the high court: "From here I ask the Supreme Court to stop this attempted attack by Feijóo and Abascal because in a democracy the right to vote is not prohibited, it is guaranteed."
According to Sánchez, these citizens have already voted in several elections since 2023. "Feijóo doesn't want it and Abascal doesn't like it. What does that mean, that the grandchildren of the exiles of Franco's regime will not be able to vote and the grandchildren of the Franco regime will be able to do so?" he asked.
Sánchez has said that what "smells like mothballs is the political project of Abascal and Feijóo. Reaction, cuts and a lot of resentment. Spain needs four more years of progress and fewer insults from the right and the extreme right."
Furthermore, the socialist leader has joked that Feijóo criticizes the directors of the Post Office on account of voting by mail, when he was president of the public company: "Feijóo does not even trust Feijóo." "It's going to be true that he's not president because he doesn't want to be," he said ironically.
He has also criticized the opposition leader for asking for "sacrifices" and the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, for saying that he is going to "repeal everything that smacks of sanchismo."
Sánchez spoke at a rally in Ponferrada, León, where he was accompanied by the general secretary of the PSOE of León, Javier Cendón; the deputy secretary general of the PSOE of Castilla y León, Nuria Rubio; and the general secretary of the PSOE of Castilla y León, Carlos Martínez.
The event was also attended by the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, and the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and the MEP and president of the Social Democrats in the European Parliament, Iratxe García.
"It is important not to forget the right that citizens have to vote by mail because if we fill the ballot boxes, the people win, and if we do not fill them, of course those at the top will win," said Sánchez, who maintains that a Government of Feijóo and Abascal will be one of "cutting, cutting and cutting."
Sánchez has asked his voters to put their "foot on the wall" in the face of what he describes as insults and hoaxes from the PP and Vox and has maintained that social progress has been made after eight years of "progressive government."
"They give us an impossible dilemma, it's like scare or death. If they are in the opposition they insult and if they are in the government they cut back. Well, let them stay in the opposition for four more years insulting us because we are going to continue governing and moving forward so that people have rights," he said.
Takes up the cause of housing
As he did on Saturday in Seville, Sánchez has also embraced the cause of housing: "Each generation has its cause, ours will also be that of housing," he said.
"Today, the social cause bears the name of an 87-year-old woman who died hopelessly and who told us something very important during all these days and the years that we will have in Government after November 29. The message that 'what I have suffered, (may) no one else suffer,' repeating the words of the Dos Hermanas rally.
