The PSOE trusts achieve a new comeback against the PP in the European elections and stop the right and the extreme right again, as in the 2023 general elections, also hoping to activate his electorate after the indictment of Pedro Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez. The PP also uses the case defending that the European Union “does not tolerate corruption”, and they accuse the socialists for “singling” the judges.

“Let’s say loud and clear that we Spaniards do not endorse shenanigans and that we are decent people,” said Albero Núñez Feijóo. The president of the Popular Party has encouraged voting for the party that in Europe “does not even tolerate the political corruption of the amnesty nor the economic corruption that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating.

The announcement in the final stretch of the campaign the summons of Begoña Gómez to declare as investigated on Friday, July 5 in the case opened for alleged crimes of corruption and influence peddling has outraged the PSOE, as Ferraz sources acknowledged.

The socialist leader and President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, said in a new letter sent to citizens through social networks that both Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP) as Santiago Abascal (Vox) They try to interfere in the elections with this type of hoaxes.

Something that Feijóo wanted to refute this Thursday by highlighting that “the vote for the PP is the response to the letters of recommendation that were written in La Moncloa so that some companies took public funds.” “Let us not allow this free nation and our freedom, our dignity and our freedom to be subjected to these letters of recommendation,” he maintained.

For her part, the head of the PP list for the European elections, Dolors Montserrat, has disgraced the socialist candidate, vice president Teresa Ribera, for having “indicated” to judgeslike Juan Carlos Peinado, who is investigating the wife of the President of the Government, Begoña Gómez.

Presence of Begoña Gómez at a rally

Furthermore, in line with other members of the Government, he commented that it seemed to him “strange“that the summons to his wife was announced only five days before the elections, but he preferred not to qualify that decision and let citizens draw their own conclusions. And one day after the announcement of the summons, at an electoral rally in Benalmádena (Málaga ), Sánchez came accompanied by his wife and thanked the militancy for all the support received.

In the party they avoid making predictions about the way in which Begoña Gómez’s summons could affect the votebut they hope that it will end up being a stimulus that encourages the progressive electorate to go to the polls on June 9 to support the PSOE, which won 20 seats in the 2019 European elections.

In fact, the PSOE is taking advantage of the summons of Begoña Gómez to insist on his great electoral campaign demand for the Europeans: the need to stop the right and the extreme right, in reference to the PP and Vox.

It is the same message that the PSOE used in the general elections of July 2023, in which Sánchez ultimately failed to win. although he mobilized a vote in the final comeback, to the point of adding, together with other parliamentary partners, more support than the right-wing bloc in order to be invested as a new president.

They trust in a new comeback

On this occasion, the PSOE is confident in a new comeback that will even allow it to win votes and seats over the PP, despite the fact that all the polls place the socialists in second place after the popular ones except that of the CIS, which gives victory to Sánchez’s party. Ferraz sources affirm that they are very few points away from the PP and consider that in this “comeback” they are favored by what they describe as “contradictions” of the popular party, such as the fact that Feijóo now encourages the possibility of a motion of censure against Sánchez for which he would need the support of Junts.

The PSOE has put everything on the table in these European elections, the next ones that take place throughout Spain after the general elections almost a year ago and for which Sánchez has opted as the head of the list for the third vice president and minister for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, who aspires to become a commissioner, according to sources close to her.

And although sources from Ribera’s candidacy and Ferraz’s leadership insist that the European elections are not a plebiscite on the Government, The truth is that Sánchez’s involvement in the campaign is being very intense. Initially, the PSOE reported that Sánchez had planned to support Ribera in at least five events, but finally he added another five more, with the peculiarity that in one of them (last Monday in Gijón) he was without the head of the list. , who at the same time had another rally in Palma de Mallorca.

Despite being a European election, the campaign It is heavily influenced by national politics and the PSOE itself is taking advantage of the events to take advantage of the work of the Sánchez Government. in Spain and in the European Union, with special emphasis on the progress of the economy and the approval of measures such as the Iberian exception. Foreign policy is being another of the main axes of the PSOE’s discourse in the campaign, with praise for the recognition of the State of Palestine by the Government and attacks on the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the “far-right international.”

Milei has become one of the protagonists of this PSOE campaign, to the point of inspiring the motto ‘Vote left-handed‘, with which the socialists turn positively the term used by the Argentine president to refer to the left.

And although in the campaign the right is using the recently approved amnesty law to attack the PSOE, sources from the social leadershipThey assure that this issue is amortized and is even positive for them, because they point out that the recent The victory of the PSC in the Catalan regional elections has proved them right with their policy in favor of “coexistence”.