The president of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, acknowledged this Monday the existence of an "exodus" of "indignant" voters who have gone to Vox, although he stressed that the Popular Party "has gone from less to more" and is managing to add support from abstainers, new voters and social-democratic voters.
When analyzing the polls published in recent days, Feijóo pointed out that they show that the center-right space is at a "demoscopic record" while the PSOE "has dissolved," highlighting that its initials have been diluted after the agreement reached with Frente Amplio in the Upper House.
"The Socialist Party now is, let us say, a Frente Amplio. It is a radical left party that adds another 18 parties and they are running in almost 50 provinces in the Senate," he stated, before accusing the socialists of trying to "merge by absorption the entire radical and pro-independence left of the country, including Mrs. (Ada) Colau".
In an interview on Telecinco, reported by Europa Press, Feijóo stressed that, although "the polls indicate that there is an exodus" of people "who voted for the PP and who now want to "vote for Vox" because they are "indignant," his party has managed to attract "abstainers" and "new voters".
In addition, he stressed that he has also managed to get "people who have been trusting" in "Spanish social democracy" to vote for him. "In my opinion, the Popular Party has gone from less to more. I honestly believe that there will be a better result at the ballot box, but there are still veintimuchos days left and in the end there is a percentage of the vote that is decided in the last week," he pointed out.
Feijóo emphasized that "there is still a lot of campaign left". "But what I can assure you is that I am not a cardboard character. I am not coming to dance, nor to kiss my partner at a rally. I am coming to manage my country. I am coming to govern my country," he stressed, thus claiming his profile as a manager and his political career.
Defense of the pact with Vox in the Senate
Regarding the agreement reached with Vox in the Senate ahead of the general elections — under which Santiago Abascal's party will not run in six provinces and the PP will do the same in another six — Feijóo justified this understanding and recalled that Vox is currently the third political force in the country, with an electorate that "trusts" that party.
At the same time, Feijóo has wanted to keep his distance and has insisted that PP and Vox are "different" parties, with "different cultures" and "different experience". "Some of us have governed, others have not," he concluded, before then urging to wait for the verdict of the ballot boxes on the 29th.