The mayor of Fuenlabrada, Javier Ayala, defended this Saturday that the end of the stage of political tension in Spain will not be achieved with a simple change in the Executive, as proposed by the PP, but with a victory of the PSOE at the polls on November 29, and he made a specific call for the participation of young people and seniors.
Ayala delivered this message during his speech at the rally following the Federal Committee of the PSOE, an organ that this Saturday definitively validated the candidacies with which the socialists will run in the early general elections.
"What we have to do is beat them, beat them at the polls. If we beat them, we are not going to escalate the political environment. We can assure you of that," emphasized the Fuenlabrada mayor, who called for a "joyful" campaign based on "smiles" and with a strong presence on TikTok to connect with the younger electorate.
The mayor also shared an anecdote about the last Fuenlabrada Festivals, where he was approached mainly by two types of groups: on one side, young people who asked him for the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to remain at the head of the Executive; on the other, pensioners concerned about the future of their benefits, an issue that has focused a good part of the recent discourse of the PP and Vox.
"Pedro, the victory will be given to us by the seniors, the middle-aged, the young people. Everyone has to go vote because we don't have any to spare. We want everyone to vote, that yes, to vote for us, of course," added Ayala, insisting on the need for broad progressive mobilization.
The mayor also claimed the role of Fuenlabrada, a municipality that has had socialist governments since the recovery of democracy, as an example of a city of "values" and with the "strength of the people" that arises from daily effort and work.
In this context, he framed the campaign as a confrontation of political models: on one side, those who "work for the people to do better"; on the other, the right-wing parties, which he placed at the antipodes of that project.
To illustrate that contrast, he has asked the public to imagine two scenarios for November 30: one with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with "his feet on the table and a cigar" next to the president of the USA, United States, and "putting 5% for military spending"; and another with Pedro Sánchez "applying common sense" in an international context "that is as it is". "We need common sense, Pedro, and only you can do it," Javier Ayala has concluded.
APPEAL TO YOUNG PEOPLE
In that call for young votes, the general secretary of the Socialist Youth of Spain, Aránzazu Figueroa, has insisted on banishing "resignation" by reminding that "the future is not written".
"We can write the future with our own hands, because when we organize, when we go out to the streets and, above all, when we burst the ballot boxes with votes for progress, we are more," she has stated, while lamenting the exhaustion of an entire generation that cannot emancipate itself or that lives making "plans that never seem to arrive".
For this reason, she has demanded that youth "turn hope into strength" and that this energy translates into a "comfortable progressive majority" capable of "ensuring present and future".
At the beginning of her speech, Figueroa also wanted to show her support for the indefinite strike in public education in Madrid and has extended her support "to all those camping in Puerta del Sol and in each and every city of this country to defend a right as basic and fundamental as the right to housing".