Sánchez clings to Trump's defeat in the US and Lula's victory in Brazil and calls for "crushing the wave of the extreme right in Spain"

Pedro Sánchez has clung to Donald Trump's defeat in the US midterm elections and Lula's victory in Brazil to ask for "a large majority to stop the PP and Vox" in the general elections of 29-N and to be able to continue four more years as President of the Government.

The socialist candidate for reelection has predicted that in Spain "the wave of the extreme right will also collapse, as it has collapsed in the US and Brazil" and has accused the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and that of Vox, Santiago Abascal, of proposing "a trip to the past." "Spain needs progress and the best recipe against regression is called mobilization. If we vote en masse, we will send Feijóo and Abascal home," Sánchez predicted this Saturday.

The acting president has based his argument on identifying the Spanish right with that of Trump, Milei or Netanyahu. "On 29-N we will tell them with our vote that Spain is governed from Spain, not from Washington, Argentina or Israel," said the socialist, who has claimed to be "the lighthouse against the war in Iran or the genocide in Gaza." "We told Trump and the warlords that we were not going to spend 5% of the GDP on Defense and now we will tell him with our vote that we are not going to be the backyard of the far-right international," he added.

The general secretary of the PSOE has also tried to incite fear against the right, maintaining that "they will review abortion and euthanasia" if they reach the Government and has promised to continue advancing in rights if he manages to remain in La Moncloa: shielding abortion in the Constitution, with new increases in the minimum wage or with a greater revaluation of pensions. "They destroyed democracy in our country, so, if they call us left-handed, very proud to be left-handed," Sánchez brandished.

The President of the Government has tiptoed over the Urda railway accident and has only mentioned it to blame the PP for not having made sufficient investment for the maintenance of the railway network during his years of presidency. Thus, the socialist has alleged that "it has taken 15 years to reverse the cuts in railway matters" to exonerate himself from the accident that left 69 victims. "We need to reinforce services and not cut them. That is also what the 29-N elections are about," he argued at a rally held in Tarragona.

Taking advantage of the location of the event, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, who acted as opening act for Sánchez, wanted to remember that the Catalan province is one of the three, along with Gerona and Guipúzcoa, in which the PP has withdrawn its candidate for the Senate by virtue of the agreement with Vox to control the Upper House. "Tarragona is kilometer zero of the PP's surrender to Vox," observed the first secretary of the PSC, and then predicted that "Catalonia will be decisive" in these elections.