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The President of the Government again makes the right to housing the focus of his speech during a pre-campaign rally in Ponferrada
Although Spain's general election is set to take place on November 29, the battle has already begun. Over the weekend, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his main conservative challenger, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, kicked off their pre-election rallies, targeting each other's key vulnerabilities.
The opposition finds it incompatible that the popular edile can balance his position as mayor with that of a congressman
The race towards the elections in Spain is already under way. The head of government, Pedro Sánchez, has promised that housing policies will not have "expiry date" and has advocated strengthening the protection of tenants and small owners. For his part, the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has committed himself to "national reconstruction" and seeks to expand his support beyond the traditional electorate of his party. Housing, the economy, possible partnerships to form government and the country's governance are defined as some of the key issues that will mark a decisive campaign
The popular leader starts the general election campaign with a 2,000-person rally in Madrid and with the main presidents and autonomous leaders of his party
Feijóo, on Sánchez: "We are going to throw him out the way the mafia likes him the least: with the people's vote" - 124; Ayuso requestions the vote by mail: "Sánchez is going to try to do all the traps he can" - 124; ERC and Bildu report that they will be presented in coalition to the Senate
The PSOE ensures that it will come to everyone, but it is not for the PP to decide "where and with whom to debate"
The Feijóo and Abascal parties repoint with the pre-campaign launched - 124; PSOE is the one that wins the most, 7 tenths, but the forces fall to its left, according to a 'flash' survey between Wednesday and Thursday - 124; A Wide Front with Can included would improve its results separately and reach up to 19 seats
The PP leader, who does not refer again to the polemic of the vote by mail, redirects his speech to the corruption of the PSOE as he hinders his people to "give everything" in the campaign
The PP leader starts the precampaign in Ceuta, where he claims he would have used the security forces on the day of the mass entry
Maricarsen's lawyer: "If the eviction had been suspended, today we would not be in this situation" - 124; The PP vets a minute of silence by Maricarsen at the Madrid Assembly - 124; at least a thousand people march to Congress and light candles in their memory to the cry of "murderers"
The corporate environment takes positions and wonders how far the PP would want to take its "repeal of sanchism" in the public business sector
Ayuso starts the precampaign by marking the passage to Genoa with the ghost of the pucherazo
The opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had been demanding early elections for months, stressed that "we will finally vote and Spain will be able to choose the country it wants to be." His People's Party leads the polls and, for him, the elections "go from Spain to win Sanchez and what it represents." From the ultra-rightwing Vox, on the other hand, they chose to shake unwavering doubts about the vote by mail, while the minority formations of the left rush dialogues for a possible alliance.
PP leader promises to 500 large companies to adjust the IRPF to inflation and reduce taxes on the purchase of housing for under 35 years
Despite the stalemate in the polls, the popular see the right-wing government made with Vox
As sanchism has not wanted to give it even water, the PP has deployed an electoral tension strategy all the time and everywhere.
Trade unions strongly criticize these entities, which Feijóo proposes to give more power, and open up the debate on making their management public, now in business hands
PP leader promises to find the formula to force elections if an extended budget and housing crash plan fails
I write this with the illusion that Feijóo's party will one day stop denying reality
