The President of the Government and candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, has called for massive participation from the progressive electorate with the aim of achieving “an epic comeback” against the right, emphasizing the decisive role of women’s votes.
During the kickoff event of the election campaign in Seville, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'The strength of women' and in front of about 4,000 people including party members and supporters, he urged people to stop the “involution” that, according to him, an eventual executive shared by PP and Vox would represent.
The PSOE leader holds that on November 29 there will be “a historic mobilization for an epic comeback of progressive Spain” which, he predicts, “is going to defeat the involution again at the ballot box.”
Sánchez kicked off the campaign with a rally with a marked feminist tone in which, for the first time, his wife, Begoña Gómez, intervened; she is currently awaiting trial for alleged crimes of trafficking in influence and misappropriation of public funds.
In line with that approach, he has defended the measures promoted by his Government that, he argues, have especially benefited women, and he has criticized Alberto Núñez Feijóo for his position regarding abortion, after the PP candidate showed himself in favor of informing the parents of girls aged 16 and 17 in the event of a pregnancy termination.
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