Sánchez is “in a dead end”, estimated the president of the Madrid region and star of the PP, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in statements to Telemadrid television.
It is “excellent news, because the Spanish are given their voice back after four years of lies,” the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, congratulated himself in an appearance before the press.
a turn of the helm
This is the first time that local elections have caused such a rapid electoral advance in Spain and that Spaniards find themselves at the polls in the middle of the summer holidays, after having already begun a hasty countdown to July 23.
According to several analysts, Sánchez, 51, who arrived at Moncloa in 2018 after the victory of a motion of no confidence against conservative Mariano Rajoy, needed to regain the initiative.
“It’s a change of course for Sánchez to stop talking about yesterday’s defeat,” Paloma Román, a doctor in political science from the Complutense University of Madrid, told AFP.
The Socialists “have not lost that much, and they can maintain themselves at a level that can help them, and, on the other hand, if they had held out in government, it might have been worse,” Román said, recalling that they obtained only 800,000 fewer votes than the Conservatives. of the Popular Party, in a census of more than 35 million people.
