Sánchez calls on the Balearic people to mobilize against the “regression of Feijóo and Abascal”

PalmaA show of strength from Pedro Sánchez this Saturday in Palma. The Spanish prime minister headlined a rally with the format of a music festival at Son Fusteret, with more than three thousand people, some of whom had been queuing to enter since seven in the morning. The Socialists are battling for the last deputy in the Islands, where seats are expensive because only eight are distributed in Congress. In a territory where the President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), awaits trial for an alleged hate crime against victims of Francoism, Sánchez has warned that the ghost of the dictatorship hangs over the possible victory of the PP and Vox. “You already know that those who say they have no position on Franco, they certainly do,” he asserted: “They have prevented the grandchildren of republicans in exile from voting, we will vote for them and their memory”.

The candidate seeking to retain the presidency reminded the audience, many of them militants who arrived by bus, of the importance of "winning the Congress and the Senate, both chambers." "Engrave these two figures in your minds: 75% participation to achieve 176 seats, a progressive absolute majority that will allow us to go further and faster," he defended: "Let's sweat our shirts until the very last minute." After Vox and the PP stirred up the thesis of electoral fraud due to the application of the grandchildren's law, Sánchez urged the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, to "accept the electoral result" of November 29th, because "the PSOE will win."

The socialist boasted about his management over the last eight years, highlighting measures such as the increase in the minimum wage and pensions in line with the CPI, as well as the approval of the Maricarmen royal decree, just two days ago. He accused the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, of proposing that private capital should enter the pension system, an issue about which the public feels "legitimately concerned." Thus, he recalled his promise to shield the revaluation of pensions in the Spanish Constitution.

With the now traditional song Pedro, by Raffaela Carrá, playing at the rally, the public -the party claims that, in addition to the three thousand people who fit in the venue, hundreds and even two thousand more were left at the doors- found PSOE flags and posters on the chairs with memes, such as “The Perro goes for a walk” or “La Peter rocks”. “We will overcome the regression of Feijóo and Abascal”, he claimed. The Spanish president remarked on the importance of going to vote so that the election is not won by “what we do not want for the world”, recalling international leaders Trump, Milei and Bolsonaro. He also gave a “fail” to the PP and Vox tandem. Since Feijóo does not know English, he said he hopes he passes “citizenship education”.

Armengol's call for the useful vote: “The decisive vote is for the PSOE”

The President of the Congress and head of the list for the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, has been in charge of making calls for the useful vote. Among the calculations of the PSIB is the concern of losing the last deputy at stake due to the strength of Vox. For this reason, the socialist has made calls to consolidate the vote in the Balearic Islands. “The decisive, brave vote is for the PSOE: there is no other,” she claimed, the very day after Gabriel Rufián asked for the vote at a rally in the same neighborhood so that “a PSOE government subject to the sovereignist lefts” would be formed. After citing the former Balearic president Francesc Antich, who died in January 2025. “He would be very proud that in Congress we spoke in Catalan, Basque, and Galician,” she said, vindicating his time as president of the institution. “Feijóo has said that they will remove the possibility of us speaking our language in the State institutions,” she asserted: “The language is not to be touched, and we will not allow that to happen.”