Spanish newspapers on Tuesday described the only debate between the two main candidates for prime minister in the July 23 election as “tough”, with most saying right-wing leader Nunez Feijoo won.
Socialist and current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Popular Party (PP, right) leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo held the only face-to-face debate on Monday evening as part of the 23 July election campaign.
Newspaper a country writes in the main headline of the first page that Sanchez and Feijoo were involved in a “tough” and “intense” debate over pacts with other parties. On the one hand, these were the parliamentary agreements of the Socialist Party (PSOE) in the current legislature with the Basque and Catalan separatists, and on the other hand, the government agreements that the PP has made with the extreme right in the regions and municipalities and that it does not refuse to repeat itself in national executive power.
ABOUT a country says Feijoo “launched the attack” in the debate in front of the “defensive” Sanchez, who spent the better part of two hours “face to face” “fending off the attacks”, failing to dominate the conversation.
already World he writes in the caption that “Sanchez lost his temper and Feijo asked for ‘majority against extremes'”. Also for this national newspaper, the debate was “bronze”, that is, rough, clear and noisy, and in various opinion texts published “online” there is unanimity that Feihoo won the debate.
ABOUT El Periodico writes that “Sanchez skipped the debate and Feijoo fought back”, and Vanguardpublished in Barcelona, states that “alliances between Sánchez and Feijoo have led to bitter disputes.”
ABOUT Vasco’s diary, from the Basque Country, concludes that “Feijo won the debate and cornered the defensive Sanchez.” Also in Galicia, a region Feihou ruled for four terms, the newspaper Voice of Galicia he writes that the leader of the PP defeated Sanchez “in a tense debate”.
None of the newspapers believe that Sanchez was better.
All polls in the July 23 elections give the NP a victory without the absolute majority it could have achieved with a coalition with VOX.
But there are also polls, albeit smaller in number, that do not give the possibility of an absolute majority on either the left or the right, leaving the key government again to smaller parties at the regional level, including the Catalan and Basque independence parties, which made possible the current leadership led by Pedro Sanchez, the PSOE’s coalition with the far-left Unidas Podemos platform.
Spain’s national legislative elections were scheduled for December, at the end of the legislature, but Sánchez pushed them back to July 23 after the left’s defeat in local and regional elections on May 28.
Due to a disadvantage in the polls and after losing the election in May, Sánchez proposed to opposition leader Feijoo that they have six debates between them on TV channels during the campaign and electoral campaign.
Feijóo accepted only one, which took place on Monday evening.
The debate over the uniqueness and closeness of the two parties in the polls of recent days was considered one of the key moments of the election campaign.