Feijóo wants to be 'cool'. It aims to grind among young people removing the image of cold and stretched type that always accompanies it. Now an account on Tiktok has been opened – the Chinese will be happy – and has made a video that has uploaded to Instagram, remember that the “adult policy” that she advocated in front of the “Espepento” includes without problems the insults in code addressed to Pedro Sánchez while dancing. “I like fruit,” you know, and I still like calling the president of the Government. What else can ask for the PP of Díaz Ayuso who has just remembered that “it is something that defines Madrid.”
It could have been worse. Feijóo told Ana Rosa Quintana on Monday that it was a birthday party and that was that or counting a joke from the stage. Such alternative can only cause chills. A rupture of the space of unpredictable effects would have been a real possibility. Anything is better than that, for example, continuing to communicate to their voters that no one is as wild and brutal as he when shooting Sánchez. The little and dirty secret that the leaders of the PP do not want to speak out loud is that this attitude is not only stopping the escape of votes towards Vox, but it seems that he is promoting it.
Doubting is synonymous with betrayal for the general secretary of the Popular Party. Miguel Tellado is there to launch the flamethrower and if he catches a corpse, which had been removed in time. On Saturday, he announced again that the government is in its last rales with a metaphor of violent content: “Here we can start digging the pit where the remains of a government that should never have existed in our country will never rest.” Sánchez and the PSOE reacted in Tromba remembering the common graves of Franco. The PP did the same and accused the president of “victimized.” If you want to put you in a pit next to other bodies, let's put that metaphorical, a little victim is.
“The tension marks the start of the course,” said a TVE label on Monday. Unlike the previous one? If the socialists have stopped putting the other cheek and decide to respond with the same weapons, is the responsibility of everyone or from which he began to shoot?
Less than a year ago, they were very happy in the PP. They were convinced that a part of Vox's electorate would end up assuming that the only way to throw Sánchez would be to vote again. And without that they seemed contradictory, they recovered the idea, so widespread before the 2023 elections, that hundreds of thousands of socialist voters would support Feijóo at the polls. If that forecast seemed too optimistic or even unreal, it was not for a few media that made it news.
Now everything has changed. The more aggressive the PP – in the case that it has a margin of growth in that style -, the more votes reach Vox. A paradox or the inevitable consequence of the PP strategy? If democracy is in danger, if we live in an autocracy, if Sanchez is the incarnation of evil, the answer is not to bet on the experience or “traceability” of Feijóo, as he likes to say, but to burst everything in kicks. And start digging the pit.
The three most recent surveys in El Mundo, Spanish and the country grant Vox between 15.1% and 17.4% (obtained 12.3% in 2023). According to El País, Vox draws twelve points to the PP Among the voters from 18 to 24 years. It is more significant in terms of participation that I get in 16 points among voters from 25 to 34 years and at six points between 35 to 44. Who suffers the bleeding of votes is the PP, which some encrypt one million votes to Vox.
The Dana de Valencia and the fires in Galicia and Castilla y León may have favored that tendency to wear out the regional governments of the PP. With any doubt about the difference between causality and correlation, Feijóo's PP turn is more likely to more restrictive positions around immigration has had a relevant influence. Its governments have refused to agree with the central government the distribution of immigrant minors to release pressure on the Canary Islands, which was precisely the reason Vox chose to abandon their pacts with the PP in regional governments.
Feijóo speaks frequently of “immigration emergency” – without importing that the data of arrivals by sea were worse a year ago – and being in favor of proceeding to the “immediate” expulsion of immigrants without papers who commit serious crimes, which in theory could free them from a long stay in prison. It does not seem to be a very rational option, but a way of appealing to the desires of revenge on a part of the electorate.
The PP leader has directly related immigration with security in terms in which the culprits always turn out to be immigrants. In Vox, at least they can say that they have been affirming the same for years, no matter how much the level of crime is very similar to the one that existed when the number of immigrants was half of the current one. The idea that the voter always prefers the original to the copy is not entirely true or at least it is not always fulfilled, but what is certain is that whoever comes first to an argument that extends in society is the one that has an advantage.
In any step, in the end you can always resurface humor, with or without Feijóo joke. This is what Cuca Gamarra did when asked about that video of his leader dancing and singing “I like fruit.” No, it was not an insult, but a commitment to healthy and balanced eating. “If we cannot say in Spain that we like fruit, because we have an important problem in the primary sector with the amount of fruit we produce and fruit that we sell,” he said.
Who was going to say that Gamarra had a sense of humor. The same also gives vox votes.
