For a few hours, Vigo was the capital of the fiercest right this Thursday night.
In the first city of Galicia, the one with the socialist mayor with the most votes among all Spanish cities - Abel Caballero - the president of the Community of Madrid, the popular Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, met at a rally.
The penultimate day of the Galician campaign illustrated the other duel that the PP maintains in this final stretch in its fight to retain the absolute majority.
His great adversary is on the left, but the confusion sown after the confession of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's team about his contacts with the Catalan independence movement threatens to open another flank for him on the right.
According to Ayuso, “the project to dismember Spain organized from La Moncloa” looms over Galicia in these elections.
He defined the BNG “cocktail” as “base communism to appropriate the property and work of others because they love to live off others;
with a dose of terror to instill fear and prevail the easy way;
well seasoned with nationalism to build false identities and decide who is a good and bad Galician;
and a few drops of socialism to distribute poverty and moral superiority.”
Ana Pontón's party, the Madrid president continued in Vigo, "is not love for Galicia, it is hatred of what is foreign", is running in the European elections "on a list headed by an ETA member" and "invents problems" with “false divisions” between “the public and the private” or “the rich and the poor” to “perpetuate” for “decades.”
If the Bloc governs, he predicts “persecution of the Civil Guard” and flight of doctors.
Galician nationalists, Ayuso warns, “don't like people who make efforts” and “can't stand freedom, openness, joy and miscegenation”: “Everything has to be fear.”
Ana Vázquez, a Galician representative in Congress, on Wednesday joined the group of PP leaders who linked the BNG with ETA due to the relations between Ana Pontón's party and EH Bildu.
Vázquez published a video on social networks in which she appealed to Vox voters: “Your votes will be orphaned and will only serve to prop up separatism.”
Vox did not take long to come to the fore on X (formerly Twitter).
He published a photo of Vázquez chatting in Congress with Vice President Yolanda Díaz and EH Bildu deputy Jon Iñarritu with the following text: “Your way of fighting separatism and the left leaves a lot to be desired.”
Vox has been encouraged by the PP's own revelations about Feijóo's attempts to seek some kind of support from Junts for his investiture.
Abascal has coined a new name to mock his partner in autonomous communities and city councils: the “cowardly right” is now the “fraudster right.”
In Vox, according to party sources, they have detected a rise in the polls in recent days, until now almost unanimous in placing it outside the autonomous Parliament.
The internal mandate is to step on the accelerator in the remaining hours.
The extreme right distributes a letter written in Galician to homes, and its leader travels around Galicia telling people that they can address him in the native language because it is what his grandmother from Orense speaks to him.
Feijóo and the popular candidate, Alfonso Rueda, have also multiplied their messages to insist on the idea that everything other than concentrating the vote in the PP favors nationalism.
Its recipients are both Vox and possible PSOE voters reluctant to the alliance of this formation with the BNG.
The ETA lure was stirred this Thursday by former president Mariano Rajoy in Alfoz (Lugo): “Pontón presents herself to the electorate as if she were Teresa of Calcutta, but she is on a list with ERC and Bildu [to the Europeans], which is smooth and plainly ETA.”
The BNG candidate completely ignores the attacks and repeats: “We are going to continue with our campaign of ideas and in a positive way.”
Wednesday's debate on TVE, in which Pontón and the socialist José Ramón Gómez Besteiro staged their common points in Rueda's absence, was the most watched program of the night in Galicia, with 17.4%, almost equivalent to that of the previous week on TVG in which the popular candidate did participate.
“It has been shown that there is going to be change and that the page is going to be turned to 15 years of an absent PP,” concluded Besteiro, who continues to receive an endless arrival of members of the central Executive every day, this Thursday with Pedro Sánchez himself at head.
From A Coruña, the President of the Government asked the Galicians who voted for him on 23-J to pick up the PSOE ballot again this Sunday: “Voting for the PSOE is double insurance, because there will surely be change and because that change will be certain.” ”.
Yolanda Díaz is also trying to reverse the bad forecasts of the polls and came to support her candidate, Marta Lois, to insist that without Sumar there can be no alternative.
She gave the example of what happened in the general elections.
“In La Moncloa it took them a while, but they realized that with Pedro Sánchez it would not arrive,” she said.
“Without Sumar, Feijóo would be president today.”
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