Sánchez Says PSOE Will Win the Election, Names Cuerpo as His Team
Pedro Sánchez said in a TV interview on Nov. 15 that PSOE will win the election. He also criticised Feijóo on abortion and the PP over AI videos.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Sunday, Nov. 15, that he expects his party to win the election, and presented his first deputy prime minister, Carlos Cuerpo, as the face of his team against Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Abascal. He spoke in an interview on the programme “Fuera de control” on La Séptima, reported by the news agency Europa Press.
“We are going to win the elections,” Sánchez said. He told the programme he had expected a discouraged campaign and instead found a large mobilisation among supporters, which left him, in his words, very encouraged.
Cuerpo set against Feijóo and Abascal
Sánchez compared politics to basketball and called it a team sport in which holding position counts. The other team, he said, has Feijóo and Abascal, while his has Cuerpo, who is also minister of Economy, Trade and Business.
He credited both the PSOE (the Socialist party) and the coalition government with keeping their position in hard moments during the campaign. As examples he gave telling Trump no on spending 5% of the budget on defence, and saying no to the war in Iran.
Abortion and the question of who is a feminist
The prime minister again praised the speech his wife, Begoña Gómez, gave at the rally that opened the campaign. He complained that she is judged for being “the wife of” and said that view would confine a politician’s partner to the home.
Sánchez then turned to Feijóo, president of the Partido Popular (PP, the party that leads the opposition). Asked whether he considers himself a feminist, Feijóo had answered that he grew up in a house with many more women than men. Sánchez replied that “being a feminist means not cutting women’s rights.”
He linked the remark to abortion, which he said is under discussion again. According to Sánchez, Feijóo said recently that doctors, parents and professors would have to be consulted. The prime minister objected that the list leaves out the woman herself.
Dispute over AI-made videos in the campaign
Sánchez called the PP’s use of artificial intelligence in the campaign a huge mistake. He said the party has made deepfakes, which are fabricated videos or images of real people, of him, of his wife and of other Socialist members, and compared that to what harassers do on social media.
His own party, he said, is putting real people telling real stories in its campaign material. He described the PP campaign as destructive and said the PSOE wants a more positive one.
The Europa Press report carries only Sánchez’s account of these videos. It includes no response from the PP, Feijóo or Abascal to any of his statements.
What it means for voters following the campaign
The interview lays out the themes Sánchez is running on: his economy minister as a selling point, his refusals on defence spending and the Iran war, abortion rights and the conduct of the campaign online. All of them are one candidate’s claims made on a campaign Sunday, and Europa Press reported them as such.
For residents trying to compare the parties, two points in the interview concern policy and can be checked against what the PP itself says: its position on abortion, and whether it stands by the AI-generated material Sánchez described.
Source: Europa Press
