Pedro Sánchez contemplates elections in April if the secessionism knocks down the Budgets on Wednesday
In the direction of the PSOE they assure still that there is no determined date and that both the 'superdomingo' and autumn are still on the table
It will not be April 14 , Domingo de Ramos, as it circulated during a good part of the morning today. Government and PSOE sources discard it "totally" and some even recall that, on that date, half of the country is on vacation and that it does not seem sensible to ruin them or risk a low participation. What does contemplate Pedro Sanchez , according to its environment, is to advance the next general elections to another day of that same month if, as all indications, the secessionist parties maintain their veto of the Budget and prevent its processing in the key vote that will place on Wednesday in Congress. «But nothing is decided», they warn.
The idea of holding elections in April is, in fact, difficult to materialize because there are few Sundays available that month. The option of 7 would not be feasible. Sanchez should have signed today the decree of early dissolution of the Cortes to be published tomorrow, 54 days before the exact date with the polls , in the Official Gazette as marked by the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime (Loreg). The 21 is Resurrection Sunday. And that would make available only the 28. But it must be borne in mind that it would mean celebrating half of the election campaign in full Holy Week .
In the direction of the PSOE, in any case, spread today a certain surprise by the fact that, from the Moncloa , a specific day was mentioned to the public news agency EFE. They maintain that an in-depth analysis has not yet been carried out and that, in the same way as April is considered, the possibility of matching the generals with the European, regional and municipal ones of May 26 is still on the table. Not even, they say, has September or October been ruled out.
The reaction of the Deputy Secretary General of the party, Adriana Lastra - who every Monday participates in the meetings of 'maitines' with the President of the Government together with the Secretary of Organization, José Luis Ábalos , the Vice President, Carmen Calvo and the Chief of Staff of Sánchez , political consultant Iván Redondo -, was very graphic when asked about the matter. "There is no member of the PSOE leadership who spoke on April 14," he said at a hearing in Ferraz .
Doubts
Some sources of the party say that Redondo is a figure outside the formation but to which Sanchez has placed at the head of the Electoral Committee , which for several weeks has in mind a call in April. Heavy weights of the socialist executive would see with better eyes the ' superdomingo ' of May. They argue that the municipal elections are the ones in which the PSOE is most mobilized, that this is its competitive advantage over other parties and that it would be good to take advantage of it. However, the mayors and autonomous presidents are not at all supporters because they fear that the national debate will contaminate everything.
In the territories, even so, the idea of an advance to April was also received with doubts and mixed feelings. Some mayors are fine, but among the presidents there is everything, from those who believe that, at least, it is better than the 26-M ("if they want to hold a plebiscite there is, but allow us to evaluate the autonomic and local governments ") to those who suspect that if Sanchez suffers a punishment vote a month after they are examined it will be very difficult to recover from the climate of defeat.
The fact that the demonstration called this past Sunday by PP, Citizens and Voxhad a moderate attendance -45,000 people according to the Government Delegation and 200,000 according to the organizers- breathed at first a certain mood in the PSOE. The leadership congratulates itself because it served to tighten the party and believes that this can later be transferred to a mobilization of the left against the right. "That picture of Casado, Rivera and Abascal , also, hurts them because it introduces an element of confusion for the elector. Who to vote for? In the case of the left that is already resolved, "argues a member of the executive.
In some autonomous communities, however, they are more skeptical. They believe that to the extent that Catalonia continues to focus the debate, they have to lose everything because it is an issue that inhibits their voters. And although they admit that Sanchez's decision to pull the emergency brake in the negotiation with the secessionists last Friday helps, they warn that it would be a mistake to believe that the assistance to the concentration of Columbus is crucial to predict the vote on the right.
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