The electoral campaign for european elections comes to an end. An anomalous and tense race between candidates, with Begoña Gómez at the center of the hurricane, with several ongoing investigations and judicial decisions that are conditioning the last hours of the 9J campaign.

In recent days they have barely talked about anything else. Both Europe and the amnesty – the PP’s star issue – have been left in the background and it has been the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, who has monopolized the parties’ discourse. Thus, it has become a double-edged electoral weapon that both PP and PSOE wield to mobilize their electorate this Sunday.

This same Friday, at the end of the PSOE campaign in Fuenlabrada, the socialists distributed bracelets with the motto ‘Free Bego‘ in the purest ‘swiftie’ style.

Since Judge Juan Carlos Peinado announced last Tuesday that he was summoning Sánchez’s wife to be declared under investigation on July 5, mentions of his wife have featured in most of the rallies.

On Wednesday, in fact, Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez reappeared together at a PSOE event in Benalmádena (Málaga).

And the socialists want to take advantage of what they describe as a campaign against the Government. Without going any further, the wallpaper during the Catalonia rally was an image of Sánchez and his wife together.

That the socialists benefit from this issue is something unusual for the Popular Party. This Friday morning, the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, criticized that Sánchez takes his wife “to the rallies and applauds her, it is a surprising thing.”

But, for its part, the PP is also clinging to the investigation of Begoña Gómez to try to win Sunday’s elections. The popular leader has gone further and has assured that “it should be a shame for the family.” Meanwhile, the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has insisted that “fewer Kennedy-style photos and more explanations.” Even government partners have criticized that Begoña Gómez has monopolized the campaign. This Friday, the second vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, denounced that “they are talking about everything except what the people need.”

The PP goes from believing that it is going to win the elections to talking about a “tie”

The feelings at the end of the campaign are opposite in the two big games. The expectations of the PP have been decreasing throughout the campaign: they started confident of a great victory and have ended up talking about a draw. The PSOE, for its part, started with little hope and today they are convinced that they will win on Sunday.

The leader of the PSOE has ironically stated that the word most repeated by the popular party is “tie.” “A month ago the PP said that it was going to sweep and today they are already saying ‘we are going to tie’,” commented Sánchez. The socialists look much stronger and even talk about a comeback, leaving the Popular Party as the loser. As Sánchez commented this Friday, he has very “good vibes” for this 9J and has encouraged the “lefties” to go to the polls on Sunday.

Fear of the rise of the far right in Europe

The rise of an increasingly stronger far-right in Europe has also been one of the issues that has dominated the electoral campaign. The leader of the socialists insisted this Friday that the PSOE ballot is the only one to stop the extreme right, represented by Vox and the ultra group of Alvise Pérez.

“There is not a good and a bad extreme right” but rather “there is a bad extreme right and there is a right even worse than bad, which makes pacts with the extreme right such as the Popular Party […] And we are going to beat those two,” remarked Sánchez, who has also confessed that he wants to give himself the “great pleasure” of beating PP and Vox. “Let’s give a lesson to the world again, an example to Europe” that in Spain “Stop the extreme right” he asked on the lectern of the Fernando Martín pavilion in Fuenlabrada.

The socialist candidate, Teresa Ribera, has insisted on this line, who has asked to “vote left-handed” this Sunday against those who only want “less Europe, fewer rights, fewer freedoms and more borders and walls.” “We didn’t find anyone in front of us, have you heard any proposals?” Ribera asked himself this Friday at the closing of the campaign, who wanted to make it clear that he only listens to how to “get Sánchez out of Moncloa” or how to “make strange alliances.” against the interests of the Spanish people”.

For her part, the popular candidate of 9J, Dolors Montserrat, has assured that “we are not going to allow the populism that hits so many Latin American countries to also reach Spain.” In that sense, he has asked that the vote of the right be reflected in the PP because, they highlight, it is the one that “hurts the most” to Sánchez, given that “everyone else makes him fat,” González Pons added in his turn to speak. , in reference to Vox.

Controversial judicial decisions facing 9J

At this end of the campaign, in addition, several judicial decisions are conditioning the last hours before the polls open on Sunday. In Madrid, a surreal situation will be experienced this weekend: several demonstrations will flood the streets of the capital in the middle of a day of reflection and even on Sunday during the vote.

The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has authorized prayer gatherings against the amnesty law before the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid on the day of reflection and on election day, on June 8 and 9.

The PSOE has appealed this decision and has requested the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) to urgently stop the call.