Pedro Sánchez faces the elections of 29N with a forecast that contrasts with the scenario of advantage for the righta que le plantean sus entrevistadores en La Vanguardia. The President of the Government assures that the PSOE will obtain a historic result, although he conditions victory on his potential voters going to the polls.
"We are going to win the party, but it is not won yet," he declares in the interview with Jordi Juan and Juan Carlos Merino. His response concentrates the electoral message he wants to convey: confidence in the comeback and a warning against abstention.
A historic result, but without specifying how many seats
"I am convinced that the PSOE will get a historic result with an enhanced majority," Sánchez says in La Vanguardia.
The expression is not accompanied by a parliamentary threshold. The president does not clarify what result he considers historic nor does he specify whether he refers to the advance of the PSOE, the strength of the whole of its possible allies, or the majority needed for a new investiture.
His stated priority is to prevent voters from taking the outcome for granted. He accuses the PP and Vox of seeking demobilization and presents participation as the variable that can alter the result.
"To win it, we need the mobilization of the citizens," he holds. That call occupies more space in his responses than any calculation about the future distribution of deputies.
Brazil, the United States and 2023: the precedents of his comeback
In the interview, Sánchez uses the electoral results of Brazil and the United States as arguments to counter the idea that the advance of the right is irreversible.
His interpretation is that, when citizens are mobilized, the forces he identifies with the expansion of rights can prevail. He adds the Spanish precedent of 2023 to that comparison and projects the same outcome onto 29N.
"That happened in 2023, it has happened in Brazil, it has happened in the United States and it will happen also in Spain," he declares to La Vanguardia.
The comparison expresses his reading of those processes, not a polling equivalence between countries. Sánchez uses it to argue that the climate prior to an election does not by itself determine what will happen when the ballot boxes open.
He also states that the political wave to which he links Feijóo and Abascal is weakening. His campaign will seek to transfer that international interpretation to a domestic election about public services, rights, and the economic model.
Ada Colau as vice president: Sánchez accepts the coalition scenario
The outlook of a strengthened PSOE coexists with its willingness to share the Executive again. Asked whether he would lose sleep over having Ada Colau as vice president, Sánchez replies that he would not.
"I have always understood the need for the lefts to understand each other, for there to be coalition governments," he explains in La Vanguardia.
Urda and Puente’s exit: he rejects an electoral explanation
The interview also examines the impact of the Urda accident and of Óscar Puente’s resignation on the campaign. Sánchez denies feeling betrayed by the former minister and maintains that his resignation has dignified politics.
When the journalists suggest to him that this exit allows the PSOE to reactivate its campaign, he rejects presenting it as an electoral operation: "We didn’t do it in that key."
He defends the sequence followed by Puente: adopting measures for those affected, appearing before the Cortes, and proposing actions on security before leaving office.
The president tries to place the electoral discussion in the response of the public authorities to crises. Against the PP and Vox, he asserts social protection as the element that differentiates his project.
Housing and general strike: recovering the issue that motivated the early election
Sánchez also tries to put housing back at the center of the debate. In La Vanguardia, he defines the general strike as a mobilization in favor of solving that problem and calls for responses from all administrations.
Regarding Junts, he points out that the debate should focus on the use it makes of its deputies in Congress. He recognizes agreements during the legislature, but reproaches it for having aligned itself with the right on housing.
That relationship remains among the unknowns of a possible new term. The interview does not offer a concrete tally of supports for the investiture nor does it detail pacts after 29N. Sánchez concentrates his message on strengthening the PSOE and leaves the composition of the majority pending the polls.