Pedro Sánchez's deck has more than four Aces. In recent months, he had one saved for each mess in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP gets, especially for his turn to the extreme right before the electoral threat that he supposes with Vox. The last one that has taken out of the drawer is the reform of the Constitution to shield the right to abortion before the attack perpetrated from the Madrid City Council, where those of José Luis Martínez-Almeida supported an initiative of the extreme right to force municipal services to report an alleged 'post-abortion syndrome' harmful to women who have no scientific evidence and whose existence the mayor himself had to deny 24 hours later.
Sánchez has counteratacious that ultra -right maneuver, backed by the PP, with the announcement of the constitutional reform and a modification of the decree that regulates the application of the abortion law. That second part, which only requires approval in the Council of Ministers without going through Parliament, “will prevent the dissemination of false or misleading information that can coerce women who want to interrupt their pregnancy,” according to the Government. Moncloa's intention is to approve that decree on Tuesday, although the ministries concerned, health and equality, had no details after the president's announcement on Friday.
In any case, it is with the constitutional reform with which the PSOE intends that Feijóo be portrayed in a delicate issue for the PP in which the different souls are evident: a more openly conservative against abortion and another more liberal that has normalized the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. These discrepancies have made the opposition leader to shy away the issue of everything he could, but the socialists intend to put their finger in the wound. The support of the Feijóo is necessary for a constitutional reform to move forward and Genoa has tried to short -circuit the debate quickly discarding his support: “That Pedro Sánchez forgets to count on us.” The PP accuses Sánchez of using that letter to “distract attention”: “We are not going to help you in that strategy and, therefore, the debate ends here.”
In Moncloa they deny the greatest, despite the fact that this proposal is not new – it was in the presentation of the PSOE Congress held in December last year – and there is a proposition of the law of adding registered in Parliament. “The PP accuses us of wanting to gain weight to Vox, of wanting to throw them into the corner, and it is they who put these issues on the table. The theme of abortion has been put on the agenda the PP, which the Madrid City Council approved is a setback and a retrograde measure,” express online government sources with the words of Sánchez, which described as “extremely serious” the proposal approved by PP and Vox in the capital.
“A reaction in defense of a fundamental right”
“We are not proactively those who put on the table themes that bother them. The reality is that it is the PP that, without necessity, approaches Vox and every time a question is put in front of them, choose Vox's answer,” say those sources, which consider that the strategy is wrong because “between the copy and the original people choose the original.”
“We understand that in the PP there are a misplaced tad,” add those sources that refer to surveys that predict exponential growth of Vox at the expense of the PP, “but we do this issue reactively to defend a fundamental right.” “They want to spread bulos and lies, as happened with the issue of immigration,” Zanjan.
The Government also takes the opportunity to atize Feijóo for the proposals on migration that presented last week and that includes some that are already in force. The Minister of Social Security and Migrations, Elma Saiz, loaded against the “xenophobic tufo” of that package, which included the controversial “visa visa”: “shows that she wants to distort the reality that is not that of this country. There is no migratory lack of control.”
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Migration is another issue in which the PP is following the drive of the extreme right, despite the fact that policies in that matter of the bipartisanship governments do not move away so much. The socialists also want to mark distances with a different approach in immigration matters, now promoting the popular legislative initiative for the extraordinary regularization of migrants, although for the moment it languishes in Congress by the clash of Podemos and Junts.
In the government they do not hide, immigration is a “determining factor” of the growth of the Spanish economy at a time when they presume to be the engine of the eurozone and the advanced country that grew the most in 2024 with the aspiration to repeat this year. An editorial of the prestigious newspaper Financial Times He placed immigration as the main cause of that economic growth. And it is an argument that in the Executive will explode to put Feijóo in the mirror.
In the government he also believes that the PP, but also his own ghosts of internal division, are being portrayed before the genocide in Gaza. The social mobilizations against Israel, who had their highest point in the boycott on the cycling return, led Sanchez to take another step in their position against Benjamín Netanyahu when announcing an embargo of weapons that the forces to their left had long claimed claiming.
PP balances with Israel
The conservatives reacted with harsh criticism to Sánchez, whom they accused of “encouraging violence” for showing their support for protests and reiterating the mantra that the announced measures are a “smoke curtain” to cover the causes of corruption that affect their surroundings. But in the government they consider that this is a winning debate because the majority of Spanish society rejects what Israel is doing and has empathy with the Palestinian people.
The Government decided, in fact, that it was the King who intervened in the UN General Assembly to set Spain's position for the first time since Sánchez is in Moncloa. Felipe VI made a hard speech in which he asked Israel “to stop the aberrant massacre,” although he avoided qualifying him as a genocide, something that Sanchez has done. The intervention of the head of the State delved into the internal divergences of a PP that was satisfied with his words while Isabel Díaz Ayuso disdained him by ensuring that “King Reina, but does not govern.”
Again it is Vox, although also the ties of the popular leadership with Israel, which drags Feijóo to an impossible position. But it is not the only matter that the government has taken the opportunity to exploit the revenues of the electoral fear of the PP to the ultra -right. Sanchez started the new course with a state pact proposal against the climatic emergency after a catastrophic summer with fires that swept more than 358,000 hectares. After a month of accusations crossed by fire, whose management falls to the autonomous communities, the president raised a series of measures with the vocation of having the support of at least the two great parties for measures such as funds, the maintenance of technicians throughout the year or the creation of a state civil protection agency against climatic catastrophes.
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“We are convinced that the terrible wave that we have suffered this year is not the result of chance, nor of a pyromaniance, as sometimes hints at the biulosfera in social networks. Let's be serious, let's be rigorous,” said Sanchez in his speech, in which he did not expressly mention Feijóo, although the great star measure of the leader of the PP in front of the fires was the creation of a registration of a registration of a pyrome.
“At the present time, where not only Spanish politics, but particularly Spanish politics, is marked by polarization and rampant denialism, may seem naive to ask for a state pact, but I am always going to defend possibilism and optimism as two only attitudes that are possible to advance to Spain,” said Sanchez in that appearance in which his hand laid was rejected in record time, Head of the opposition, who said that “has no credibility.”
The PP, not only Spanish, but also at European level, has been scrambled against the green and environmental agenda that marked the previous legislature in the EU precisely for the fierce competition of the ultra -right denial of climate change.
A month has passed since Sánchez raised the State Pact against the climatic emergency and there has been no progress. And, before more and more environmental catastrophes, the socialists redouble the pressure on the PP, which they accuse of moving from tiptoe “for the greater threat of our time”, which only appears mentioned on one occasion in the document signed by Feijóo and its barons last week. And attribute that inaction to “extreme right pressure.”
The Socialists are convinced that the PP will follow Vox's path to try to stop the bleeding towards the Santiago Abascal party and will take advantage of that follow -up with the aim of growing through the center.