Pedro Sánchez Advances General Elections to July 23 as Right-Wing Gains Momentum

Pedro Sánchez announced yesterday the advancement of the general elections to July 23, without giving PP and Vox respite to celebrate their respective successes at the polls. Sánchez, without a doubt, does not stop, in this way, wanting to make profitable that the right and the extreme right are condemned to agree.

Although Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero received theirs in style, the contagion effect of the successful Trumpism and other populisms such as those that gave rise to Brexit, the process and similar anthological failures ended up shooting the right-wing campaign to previously inconceivable limits. against Pedro Sánchez, a true political animal who managed to seize the reins of the PSOE despite the opposition of the aforementioned González and Rodríguez, but also of the then untouchable Andalusian socialism, represented by Susana Díaz.

In their eagerness to regain power, the right wing that lost the government with Mariano Rajoy due to institutional corruption to which the Socialists are not unfamiliar, has resorted to all kinds of tricks such as the popularization in related media of terms such as perrosanche or that so terribly contemptuous for the victims of the ETA criminal gang such as “Txapote vote for you!”, regardless of the fact that the murderer who hides behind that alias, Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, took the life of Gregorio Ordoñez, as brilliant as he was emerging leader of the Basque PP and brother of Consuelo, the president of Covite, one of the main associations of victims of terrorism.

Be that as it may, the results of 28M are unquestionable and the majority of citizens have decided that the majorities for governance go through pacts between the PP and its uncomfortable split, the extreme right of Vox, whose longing for Francoism is reflected in proposals as unconstitutional as their rejection of the mere existence of the autonomous communities, even though this is not an impediment for them to gladly accept the charges of said administrations.

With his ears on the wolf that threatens his power, Sánchez has not taken even 12 hours to bring forward the general elections to next July 23 after personally assuming, yes, the electoral defeat suffered by the PSOE in the regional and municipal elections of the past Sunday. In an institutional statement without questions in Moncloa, the President of the Government of Spain reported yesterday morning that he had already notified King Felipe VI of the convening of an extraordinary Council of Ministers scheduled for today where the dissolution of the Parliament will be approved. “I accept the results”, said the president of the Spanish Government.

The meaning of the vote
From the official perspective, it is necessary to point out that Sánchez assured that he is making this decision in view of the results of the elections held despite its municipal and regional scope, given that, in his opinion, “the direction of the vote conveys a message that goes beyond. And, for this reason, as President of the Government and also as Secretary General of the Socialist Party, I assume the results firsthand and I believe it is necessary to give an answer and submit our democratic mandate to the popular will ”, he concluded.

Nobody knows if such progress will favor the interests of Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE or not, nor does it escape anyone that this 28M is also a triumph for both, given the collapse of Podemos and its alliances, which will undoubtedly mean a barn of votes that can return to the social democratic formation.

Vox is still inconsequential in the Canary Islands

Except for a crazy cascading pact ordered from the Peninsula and obviously doomed to failure, the notable irruption of Vox in the main institutions of the Canary Islands will be irrelevant when it comes to forming majorities for governance, given that the numbers are enough for the other conservative forces, as the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, to ensure it. Of course, the advancement of the generals affects the Islands.

As well predicted yesterday by a specialist in these trades such as the historic leader José Manuel Barragán, who expressed his wish that the negotiations end “as soon as possible” so that all the parties can dedicate themselves to the general elections.

If this is the statement made by someone whose coat of arms is not to admit orders from Madrid, it is easy to deduce what happens in parties like the PSOE or the PP of the Canary Islands.

In summary, there is a rush to close agreements in the Islands in the face of the new political tsunami that implies risking the representation of the Archipelago in the Cortes.