He says that the “big problem” of the PSOE is that it does not mobilize in regional elections the electorate that votes for them in general
MADRID, 20 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has responded to the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, that he has to know “what his shirt is” and not be happy when the PSOE loses an election because ” did not win them” the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.
In an interview on Cadena Ser, collected by Europa Press, the socialist leader reproached the Baron from La Mancha for being pleased that Puigdemont did not win the Galician elections, referring to the nationalists of the BNG, even if the PSOE had come in third place. .
“I find it incomprehensible that Mr. Page says this, because you always have to know when your team plays which shirt you are wearing. And you are happy that your brand, your team, is reaping good results,” said the first vice president. , regretting the statement of the Baron from La Mancha.
Likewise, he has insisted that all socialists are happy when a regional president of the PSOE wins the elections and are upset when “that is not the reality.”
The minister’s statements take place a day after Page stated that if the PP had lost the majority “the winner would be Puigdemont.” “I’m glad that Puigdemont didn’t win,” said the socialist leader on Monday, very critical of the amnesty law.
In this sense, Montero has reflected on the results of the Galician elections and has admitted that the “big problem” of the PSOE is that it does not mobilize the electorate that votes for them in general in regional elections, which is why he believes the socialists will have to do a call for their voters to understand that it does not matter who is in charge of the regional governments.
For this reason, he has announced that the PSOE will have to appeal to its voters so that they understand that “it is very important who governs in an autonomous community” and that they go to the polls not only when the Presidency of the Government is at stake.
“The big problem we have in regional elections is that there is a part of our vote that does not go to the polls, either because they understand that there are no great possibilities for change or because they are not aware that these elections are as important as some elections. general elections,” explained the first vice president.
Montero has stressed the importance of “everyone feeling called to participate” and understanding that “it is very important who governs in an autonomous community.” “It is the great challenge we have in regional elections,” Montero continued, adding that in the next Galician elections they will also have to recover the “borrowed vote” to the BNG.
The Minister of Finance has also said that the ‘popular’ Alfonso Rueda called the elections in Galicia early so as not to give the socialist candidate José Ramón Gómez Besteiro time to make himself known, which would have influenced the electoral result that the PSOE obtained last Sunday.
“I am convinced that, among other reasons, Mr. Rueda called the elections early so as not to give Mr. Besteiro time,” she stated when asked why the PSOE was not able to mobilize its electorate in the Galician elections last Sunday. , unlike BNG.
Montero recalled that Besteiro “is not a new person in Galician politics” and that he was separated for seven years “due to complaints from the PP that ended in nothing” and that removed him from the “political focus.” However, he has indicated that the PSOE believes that “he is the right person” who is going to “pivot change in Galicia for the future” with an “exciting project.”
In this sense, he stressed that the socialist candidate “has ahead of him the development of a project in Galicia” and that he will be able to recover the socialist votes that in these last elections have gone to the BNG because the nationalist party was seen as “the best possibility to promote a change that many citizens saw as absolutely necessary.
The first vice president has also spoken about the involvement of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the Galician election campaign, ruling out that the regional leadership is being diminished to enhance that of the general secretary of the PSOE at the national level.
“Not at all, the other way around,” Montero responded when asked about this question, explaining that what the federal executive leadership of the PSOE intends to do is “strengthen these autonomous leaderships” with their presence, their pedagogy and their policies.
“The PSOE project, that is its great greatness, is that it is a project that is presented in every corner of Spain and that all of us colleagues are necessary,” he stated, emphasizing that “everyone” works for the acronym of the PSOE and They work “for the red shirt.”
