The SocioMétrica survey published today by EL ESPAÑOL yields a resounding result: the Popular Party consolidates its wide advantage over the PSOE in voting intention.
The tempered leadership of Alberto Núñez Feijóo maintains his party as the leading national political force, no less than 41 seats away from Pedro Sanchezwho would not be able to revalidate the majority Frankenstein who invested it in 2023.
The scenario drawn by the SocioMétrica survey allows us to infer that the electorate recognizes the PP as the only real alternative in the face of the tension that poisons the day-to-day life of Spanish politics.
And this is largely due to a calculated strategy on the part of Feijóo, who has opted for andalusian road towards La Moncloa. That is, by the methodology of Juanma Morenosupported by the national leader in his re-election as president of the Andalusian PP this Saturday.
Moreno Bonilla’s success lies in his convinced aspiration to represent the political center, distancing itself from Vox extremism. And Feijóo wants to follow the same formula, the success of which is confirmed by the confirmation that Vox’s sustained rise in the polls is not at odds with the growth of the PP or its ability to govern alone.
When a pre-electoral climate begins to appear on the horizon, the PP has understood that competing with tension only leads to blockage.
Feijóo and Moreno know that The Spanish voter, above ideology, seeks management and predictability. The Andalusian experience shows that the sum of moderation and responsible government can defeat both the extreme right and the left.
There is no doubt that the PP is contributing, from the other side, to the demoscopic consolidation of Pedro Sanchezwho with his growing radicalism is leaving the path to the center clear for his main rival.
This Sunday, the president has taken another step in his reckless abandonment to the rampant authoritarian drive that he displays not only by dispensing with Parliament, but by fiercely engaging in his fight with the Judiciary.
Sánchez has broken with the tradition by which the presidents of the Government do not express themselves from their position on open judicial cases that affect them. He has insisted on declaring the state attorney general innocent. And what is worse: he has slipped that He will continue to consider him innocent even if the Supreme Court declares him guilty.
That, in the middle of an ongoing procedure, the head of the Executive Branch puts pressure on the Supreme Court by issuing a ruling and interfering in the jurisdiction of the Judiciary, constitutes a disturbing democratic anomaly.
It is clear that Sánchez is more convinced than ever to continue down the path of institutional confrontation and disdain for democratic balances. Which allows the PP to pick up the flag of concord and coexistence from the ground, escaping the radical clamp stretched between PSOE and Vox.
In fact, the president’s determination to run for re-election (even though, as SocioMétrica reflects, he has lost 15 popularity points since he was inaugurated) provides an invaluable asset to the PP.
Because Sánchez’s suicidal obstinacy to perpetuate himself in power is going to result in the carom of bringing Feijóo to the Government and strengthen the opposition to the extreme right against which it claims to fight without quarter.
What seems clear is that, in a time of tension, the majority of Spaniards continue to support moderation. The PP, with its distance from the extremes, stands as a refuge for a social majority exhausted by radicalism on the left and right.