Yesterday, PP found the adrenaline rush he was looking for in the Valencia arena to face the final days of the campaign. Before 12,000 attendees (all Valencians, according to the same sources), according to the organization, the popular ones took a real mass bath, achieving the image of an absolute crowd to reflect the feeling of loop change before 28M. They called for beneficial votes from the right and left with the clear goal of being the top-voted list, a change they said they touched with their fingers but asked them to concentrate the voting around the PP.
The national president himself Alberto Núñez Feijóo began his speech by openly mentioning Carlos Mazón, thanking the regional leadership for his “effort to mobilize” and “courage” to take on the challenge of repopulating the square. “It’s an injection of morale for the rest of the campaign,” he celebrated.
In demanding that support be consolidated in the PP (as both Mazón and María José Catalá have argued in previous interventions), Feijóo pointed to the importance of both “voting” and “getting the votes right”, appealing directly to Vox and Cs voters. . Also from PSOE. The big innovation, however, was the direct mention of liberals and far-rightists, whose voters had never openly wanted their votes until yesterday.
“There are liberal and centrist voters who are excited about the Ciudadanos project. There are Vox voters who want strong governments committed to our country. There are socialists who are ashamed of the course of the country, of the fraudulent use of the party. I’ve come to ask all these Spaniards for an opportunity to reclaim good politics. We must unite the vote around the PP to enable good politics and change in the Community of Valencia and Spain. Let your vote not serve to support Sánchez and Puig,” he argued.
Feijóo tried to somehow contain the enthusiasm in the square, which urged his bases to “take nothing for granted”. That’s why he acknowledged that “it stinks of change”, but stressed that “it’s not worth betting on any option” and considered it “necessary” to “concentrate the votes on the PP”.
In any case, it faced the mobilization capacity of the PP very differently than it did in 2019. According to Feijóo, this represents the “illusion” of a “calm and logical change”. “There are those who did not vote for the PP in 2019 in this action,” he said, creating excitement in the stands. “If you all had voted for us…”. And he compared it to that of the PSOE, which held its main action in Valencia on Saturday. He pointed out that they would “be nervous” before this show of force in Moncloa and accused the Socialists of “cloaking themselves” in their actions in order to “hide” from the street.
Feijóo was not the only one to call for a concentration of votes in the PP. Both Mazón and María José Catalá did the same, although they did not directly refer to any party.
The Generalitat candidate stated that this PP is “open to all” and asked that the votes be “not split”. “I invite you not to divide, but to intensify efforts: division distracts us from the change we have already touched with our fingertips. The change we gained hand in hand after four years. This is not a slogan, it has fallen under its own weight. We can’t go on like this.”
Along the same lines, Catalá said, “there are many ballots to go on like us, but there is only one ballot for change: that of the PP. Tell everyone. Let’s not throw the votes away, we should say that the votes are beneficial to the PP.”
Mazón, Catalá and Vicen Mompó, the head of state of the Valencian PP and initiator of the law, stressed the importance of saving the city council and the Generalitat to promote their leader a few months later. “If Catalá and Mazón become mayor and president, you will become de facto president,” Mompó predicted (this time without reproaches from the stands), once again combining Valencian and Spanish in her speech.
Mazón also introduced the most autonomous demands against public health and Botànic’s “financial hell”. He also denounced the lack of freedom of education or the “abandonment” of agriculture and forests. “Our public services do not correspond to the financial hell we live in. “It’s about defending and justifying our land against the Sanchismo delegates.”
This “double punishment”, of which Mazón often speaks, was also interpreted by Feijóo, who complained about the “image” that the Valencian Community had given to the rest of Spain because of Botany. «Why do you have to have that image in the rest of Spain? Why do we have to have a Head of Government based in Valencia who doesn’t talk about the three things a Head of Government in the Valencian Community should talk about? Financing, water and the Mediterranean Corridor” criticized it without making any proposals.
The three protagonists of yesterday’s rally, Feijóo, Mazón and Catalá, reversed the bullfight order by entering through the front door and going around the ring before the show started. Among the participants were many representatives of the province’s PP, such as the mayors of Alicante and Benidorm, respectively, Luis Barcala and Toni Pérez.