Feijóo warns voters not to trust themselves: ‘Abstaining is one vote for Sánchez to stay’

Feijoo warns voters not to trust themselves Abstaining is one

The President of the People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has again this Saturday called for the vote to be “focused” on the PP so as not to “disperse” the result of the 23-J general elections. “If we get together all those who want a change of government, we’ll get 20 more seats,” Feijóo said in front of around 400 supporters at the La Rioja conference center in Logroño. “It’s not impossible to get that majority because we have a project that fits the majority of Spaniards,” added the leader of the PP, who wants to add as many seats in Congress as the entire left put together not to do so having to integrate Vox into any future government. Despite giving him a good result in most polls, Feijóo warned his supporters and constituents not to trust them: “Abstaining is one vote for Sánchez to stay.” He has also admitted that if necessary, he will support education voting by Santiago Abascal would form a coalition government with the Ultras. A scenario they are trying to avoid at all costs, justifying the idea that voting for Vox would “scatter” the July 23 result.

In this sense and when the divorce with Vox took place in the Murcia region, where the popular candidate Fernando López Miras could not be sworn in due to lack of support from the foundation of Santiago Abascal and after Genoa decided to postpone the negotiations in Aragon until after in the next elections, the PP is focusing its efforts in the latter part of the electoral campaign on calling itself a “useful voice” for the “expulsion of Sanchismo”, even if this comes at the cost of statements that contradict the truth. as Feijóo himself confirmed in an interview on Onda Cero this Friday. “If we vote for the People’s Party, there will be no sanchismo, no deadlocks and no deadlock. “It is true that there are parties that want to block and have different interests,” added the PP leader, also in a veiled reference to Vox. Feijóo reiterated his commitment to ruling the list with the most votes, as an arrow against Pedro Sánchez, just a day after Extremadura’s PP candidate María Guardiola was gifted with Vox’s support after being exactly the second most voted force was 28-M in the parish, behind the PSOE.

Before the act in Logroño, Feijóo attended another meeting in Vitoria, where he re-ignited the controversy surrounding postal voting. “I hope and pray that this campaign ends well, and the first thing I want is that all the people who have asked for absentee ballots receive it so that they can vote and exercise a constitutional right that is in a consolidated Democracy like Spain is fundamental.” “, he said at the beginning of his speech. All week the leader of the PP has expressed doubts about the guarantees of postal voting tried the way to power in Galicia of the now national candidate of the PP.

The event in Logroño was attended by, among others, councilors from the town halls of La Rioja and the new mayor of Logroño, Conrado Escobar, as well as the new president of the municipality, Gonzalo Capellán. The PP candidate for the government of La Rioja won the regional elections on May 28 with an absolute majority and was sworn in as president two weeks ago. The PP obtained two absolute majorities on 28-M: that of La Rioja and that of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. So Chaplain on Monday called on voters to repeat the “challenge” of winning the general election “clearly and clearly” with “distinctions”.

And the number one in Congress for La Rioja, Cuca Gamarra, also general secretary of the party, expressed himself in the same direction. “It’s not worth winning. “It’s time to add votes to multiply the seats,” said Gamarra, addressing directly former Ciudadanos voters who “want change” and “socialists who don’t understand what this sanchismo is,” and has urged Vox supporters to opt for “the only political option that guarantees change” in order to win “the Rioja-style elections.” In November 2019, La Rioja provided two deputies for the PSOE and two more for the PP in the congressional elections.

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“They joke that we look alike,” Feijóo said, referring to Chaplain, who he reportedly bears a close physical resemblance to — “and I’m starting to think that you look like me because you absolutely do.” “Majority, but I still get three and hope it will be four on the 23rd,” he said ironically. So far, Feijóo had not mentioned the possibility of attaining the Absolute. Management sources say this is virtually impossible, but expect it to “grow” as the campaign progresses. The tracking is 40 dB. For EL PAÍS and SER, which was published this Saturday, three seats will be deducted from the PP.

The PP submits a letter to the Central Electoral Board in which it extends the deadline for postal votes by one day

The PP has submitted a letter to the Central Electoral Board (JEC) extending the deadline for the delivery of ballots by mail for the July 23 general election. In the text, management sources say MPs are demanding that absentee voting be allowed until Friday 21, rather than Thursday 20 as is currently required. They also demand that they investigate how the “problems” of those have been resolved who did not receive the vote in time, although the deadline for receiving the documents is tomorrow Sunday. According to Correos, the public company has received 2.6 million ballot applications in the mail and has already delivered the documents to 1.9 million people, with whom it must deliver the remaining 700,000 documents between this Saturday and Sunday tomorrow.

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