The leader of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, is the opening act for Gabriel Rufián in the last major pre-campaign event of the independence party. From the Plaza de los País Catalanes, in Badalona, the former vice president also wanted to surf the wave of electoral change in the United States. “What is most similar to us has won in Brazil, Israel, Serbia and Texas,” Junqueras assured before about 2,000 people.
The Republican recalled that Elon Musk put 200 million euros into the Republican campaign. “But people like Gina Hinojosa [the first Latina president of Texas] have won, with nothing, just with the vote of the people, like you,” he explained.
Before giving the floor to Rufián, Junqueras insisted on the need to concentrate the vote not only to win an eventual coalition of the Popular Party and Vox but to be in a better position to demand from the socialists. “We cannot trust a PSC that always drags its feet and never takes things seriously,” he said.
He has also charged against Junts, for “putting spokes in the wheels” to measures such as the transfer of the Free Zone Consortium or financing. “We cannot trust the Comuns, who whenever possible have agreed with the PSC or with Manel Valls to prevent ERC from governing in Barcelona.”
Pedro Sánchez has committed to protecting the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI in the Constitution in the next legislature. “We are going to demand it from all parliamentary groups, so that no one plays with the future of pensions again,” the President of the Government stated at a rally before 2,800 militants and sympathizers at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao. In this way, Sánchez has once again put the focus on questioning the current pension system that the PP has implemented. Its parliamentary spokesperson, Ester Muñoz, said that it was going to “hit the ground running,” while Vox promotes its privatization. "We have shown that pensions can be revalued and the pension piggy bank filled at the same time. 20,000 million euros compared to the 5,000 million euros that we are going to leave in the pension piggy bank in 2026," said the PSOE candidate on 29-N, who gave as an example the retirees who demonstrated every Sunday "for decent pensions" in the Basque Country: "What most What was exciting about those demonstrations is that, above all, those retirees were demonstrating not for their pensions, but for the pensions of tomorrow, those of their sons and daughters, their grandsons and granddaughters.” As it did a few weeks ago, it has also reiterated its commitment to protecting the right to abortion in the Fundamental Law, in another nod, in this case to the female vote.
The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has focused on some of the statements that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made to “translate” them into what, in the opinion of the socialists, those words hide: a setback in rights and freedoms and cuts to the Welfare State. "Feijóo says: How is it possible that the majority of sick days are on Fridays or Mondays? Translation: You workers are idiots and you don't even have the right to get sick. He says: We are going to reopen the euthanasia debate. Translation: He doesn't want anyone to have the right to have a dignified death. Another: The pension system is going to fail because it is unsustainable. Translation: They want pensioners without pensions. They are going to go back to "They want poor pensioners," the territorial leader gave as an example at the PSOE rally at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao. Andueza has also warned of the danger that a PP and Vox Government would have for women's rights. "Feijóo says: I am a feminist because I grew up with more women than men. Do you know what that means? That the Ministry of Equality is over, that they are going to deny sexist violence and vicarious violence, that they are going to eliminate the offices for caring for victims of sexist violence, that they are going to repeal the abortion law." "And the last one: he is going to ask you for sacrifices. And you already know who pays that bill: the workers, the women, the young, the dependents, the pensioners. You all pay that bill to benefit a few," Andueza concluded. After giving all these examples, his conclusion is that "Feijóo has become the best asset of the PSOE, we just have to let him speak. On 29-N the choice is between sacrifices or social justice. There is no possible tie."
The PSOE holds its third consecutive rally of the pre-campaign in Bilbao, where Patxi López has brought 2,800 militants and sympathizers to their feet with his demand for the party and Pedro Sánchez. "We have been surrounded by propagators of hate. They have attacked us by land, sea and air with bad tricks. They believed that they had already defeated us and we were not going to get up. That we were defeated... They did not seek to win us, they sought to destroy us. We socialists have had an enemy, the terrorist group ETA. We did not give up, we beat them, and we are going to win again against the propagators of hate!", he stated at the Euskalduna Palace. Several hundred people have been left outside due to excess capacity and have followed the event on screens outside.
The socialist spokesperson in Congress and remembered as the lehendakari when ETA announced its surrender in 2011, has given “thanks as enormous as Bilbao” to Sánchez. "You have been governing for eight years and from minute one they have gone after you. With everything we have endured, they have attacked us, insulted us, even attacked us, but especially against you, your family, Begoña, your closest core, and you have not stopped working for this country for a single day. Even facing the powerful, the satraps, the warlords, the techno-oligarchs," López said.
The spokesperson for the socialist group in Congress, Patxi López, called this Sunday for mobilization in the general elections on November 29, appealing to the “power of the people.” “We are people who do not resign ourselves, who are not willing for anyone to come and take away our rights, because we do not want anyone to take away our freedom, because we do not want anyone to come and propose a setback of more than 40 years,” he said from an event in Bilbao, in which he was accompanied by the President of the Government and socialist candidate for re-election. “In this country, the strength of the people exists and is unstoppable and it is the strength of the people that has raised the containment dam that has stopped in its tracks the wave of extreme right in Serbia, the student movement in Brazil with Lula, in the United States with the Democrats, and is going to do it again here in Spain with Pedro Sánchez,” he added.
The general coordinator of IU and representative of Frente Amplio, Antonio Maíllo, assured this Saturday at an event held in the Plaza del Castillo in Pamplona that the “useful vote” is for his political formation, which represents “the left that gets wet and rolls up its sleeves.” “What has made the PSOE turn has been politics, first from Unidas Podemos after Sumar and now from Frente Amplio,” Maíllo declared to journalists. In Frente Amplio, he stated, “we are, and the people know it, the ones who determined a structural change in the reform that the Socialist Party does not dare to follow in the case of housing, which is the people's greatest concern.” The PP and Vox “defend the speculators, and the PSOE does not dare to confront them,” emphasized the Frente Amplio spokesperson, who recalled that they were the ones who had to “sit a sit-in in the Council of Ministers so that the royal decrees will be approved thanks to the mobilizations.” “The usefulness of our vote is to continue making structural reforms in the State that the Socialist Party, because it has demonstrated, when it governed alone was not capable of doing, and of course the PP and Vox are not only going to not do it, but they are going to retract the reform and the achievements achieved,” he highlighted. For this reason, “we have a very large space of people who are never going to vote for the PSOE, because they know that they are not going to get anywhere,” Maíllo commented at this event, in which he was accompanied by Navarrese candidates from Frente Amplio and representatives of the Contigo-Zurekin coalition, of which IU is a part. Maíllo has stressed that, if they achieve 15% support in the elections, "evidently the character of audacity in the reform of the policies that have to be carried out, the protection of public pensions, the defense of public services, will be guaranteed with the support and presence of the Frente Amplio in Congress and in the Government." “And in the face of another left that will never get involved in governing, we do roll up our sleeves,” said Maíllo, who pointed out that “in the general elections the determining and distinctive fact of what is going to happen is going to be the result that Frente Amplio obtains.” If citizens "want to reissue the progressive governments and prevent the reactionary government of the PP and Vox from taking over the Government of Spain, they have to vote for Frente Amplio," he highlighted. In that sense, he stressed: "The PP and Vox do have a plan, which is to govern, and we do not want them to do it. And the capacity we have to govern is not going to be giving it to a sovereigntist or regionalist party or of any other nature that will never be part of the governments." “We are the left that gets wet, rolls up its sleeves, that breaks the ceilings of what until now was not allowed,” he concluded.
The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has been in favor of pensions being paid and has denied that his party wants to privatize them, which he considers a false debate generated by the Government: "Pensions are at risk and will stop being paid if Pedro Sánchez continues in power," he noted. "I am in favor of pensions being paid, of the rights acquired by the elderly being paid in any way. The discussion of whether this can be done through one formula or another, I think is a much more technical discussion than political," he said in an interview with El Periódico this Sunday. According to Abascal, the current Government is a risk for pensions because “it is destroying the private economy” and is causing workers to lose purchasing power. "I am not going to commit to one system or another, or to some type of formula that does not exist, that can be proposed, so that there is more income and so that pensions are guaranteed. What I want everyone to know is that I don't care about the system; what matters to me is that pensions are paid. That is what is sacred and that is our commitment," he stressed. Regarding the train accident in Urda (Toledo), he has said that he is not surprised by the resignation of the former Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, and assures that “it was a fuse” for the President of the Government. "I believe that corruption kills, just like other political attitudes. I believe that ideological fanaticism kills, I believe that the migratory invasion kills and that it brings ruin and lack of prosperity and, in the case of Adif and Urda, I believe that there are already too many elements to be very concerned and to link corruption with the accidents that end up occurring," he added. On the other hand, he has defended that Vox respected the mourning for the accident despite maintaining his pre-campaign, and has stated that he will not attend the state funeral for the victims: "I think that families should be allowed to say goodbye to their dead in privacy and I think that politicians often only get in the way." Asked about his party's policies on housing, he maintained that more public and private housing must be built and he sees it as necessary to "face overregulation and taxes on housing." "And, on the other hand, I believe that we must open the door for those who do not have to be in Spain to leave Spain. I am referring, of course, to those who are here illegally, who must be repatriated and who occupy homes," he expressed. Regarding the proposal of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to build one million homes, he has assured that it is a “tremendous mistake” to promise a specific number. Regarding immigration, he advocates expelling those who, he says, are in Spain illegally and “doing a complete audit of all social assistance” that he believes should not be given to these people. Regarding unaccompanied minors who are in Ceuta, he considers that “the first thing to do is put them at the border” and hand them over to the Moroccan authorities.
