A few months before the regional and municipal elections, The parties have already run the ballot machines to their maximum.. Regional power is at stake – which is too much – and above all, at the end of this year – if it comes as no surprise – the most credible poll for the next general election to be held. The artillery of the budgets joins the first election promises and the beginning of the tenth chapter of the cultural war. Or from different wars, because we are not satisfied with just one. I was referring to regional power earlier: as with the advent of the Second Republic, what matters is the control of the big squares at stake. We’re talking about Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Seville and Valencia. The power of the image is decisive is the marketing of symbols. The seizure of Andalusia by the absolute majority of the PP was one of the blows that showed more than a trend: socialist Andalusia turned into an autonomy of reference for the people. On the contrary, Turn to the left of the Valencian Community – now in contention if we listen to demoscopia – shows us the shift of the socialist vote towards the old conservative strongholds. What about Castilla-La Mancha or Extremadura, borders with a strong national conscience? Which way will the governments of Valencia or the Balearic Islands lean? It seems that their fate will depend on a handful of votes. The city of Barcelona aims to be the major socialist symbol in a voting scenario where the PP seems destined to dominate in the main cities. This kind of transformation in the electoral map also has a powerful ideological impact that we can never ignore.
The bottom of the socialist vote in Madrid and the absolute majority of the centre-right in Andalusia put socialism in an irreconcilable position within the left spectrum. PSOE can no longer claim an absolute majority (in PP too), but it is also difficult to be the top-voted power at the national level. And without the C’s, this means that the spectrum of alliances to form a government will necessarily tend towards ultra-left populisms (Unidas Podemos) and identity nationalisms with a more or less pronounced pro-independence cue. Voting for the PSOE therefore means being aware that their alliance with the center will not be formed. -no more or very little – but with its surroundings. At the same time, Catalonia and the Basque Country – with their large electoral weight in the number of deputies – gain enormous importance. It is logical, then, that the PSOE is increasingly swinging into positions far from classical social democracy. Likewise, the PP’s meager results in these two communities and its growing presence in Madrid and Andalusia direct its discourse to other sensibilities, for reasons similar to those of the PSOE, albeit in reverse. Feijóo also knows that he will need Vox’s support to manage., but still hopes to have enough numbers – more than 130 MPs – to rule without excessive bondage. The PSOE’s electoral ceiling is clearly below the 130-seat horizon. In any case, the war of attrition between the two major Spanish parties has just begun. And it will increase as the decisive days approach.
Source: Informacion
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