I can't break my mental habits to vote for Alvise

Tactical voting means choosing the party most likely to win even if it is not your preferred one. On the Spanish right, that calculation pits Alvise's voters against the need to concentrate the vote on the PP to remove Sánchez from power.

There is a decision many right-wing voters are making these days without anyone forcing them: voting for a party that does not represent them. Not out of conviction, but out of antiestéticar. The antiestéticar that the adversary keeps governing weighs more than their affinity with their own candidate. It is a calculated surrender, and those who make it know it.

## Tactical voting and the antiestéticar of Sánchez

The voter who gives up his first choice does so based on a simple calculation: if my party adds nothing, my vote is wasted and the rival wins. That reasoning explains why someone who considers **Alvise** the best-prepared politician and the one who has fought hardest against **Pedro Sánchez** ends up voting for the **PP** (Spain's conservative People's Party). It is not a change of ideas, it is a strategy.

The paradox is obvious. People vote for the PP without believing in its leader, whom they describe as more frozen than **Walt Disney**, and without trusting his party. But they do it because the higher goal is for Sánchez to go. The question left hanging is whether that borrowed vote is recovered afterwards or stays forever with the party that receives it.

## The objections to the PP that do not change the vote

The same voter who chooses the PP lists its flaws while sparing none. He mentions **Mazón**, talks about Andalusia's public healthcare cracked by the screening affair, and argues that stability in **Andalusia** has been put at risk. He also owns up to **Ayuso**'s comments on abortion. None of those objections makes him change his ballot.

It is the difference between voting with the heart and voting with the head. The heart is elsewhere, but the head says the urgent matter is something else. And in that tension, the voter decides to trust his good sense more than his enthusiasm.

## The housing narrative and young people

Among the complaints is the use of the housing narrative as an electoral hook among the young. Sánchez is accused of stoking the inexperience of the weakest sector of society and of seeking votes with that discourse. It is also mentioned that **Puigdemont** will return from exile and that Sánchez keeps welcoming those considered enemies of Spain.

These are arguments repeated in public conversation, though not all have the same verifiable basis. Puigdemont's return and migration management are facts that can be checked in official sources. The accusations about electoral intentions are opinions, and should be treated as such.

## A vote without enthusiasm

The result is a voter who votes for the PP without desire, without faith and without representation. He does it because he sees no other way out. The point, he says, is not to vote for Alvise or Vox, but to get Sánchez out. It is a logic that may work in one election and backfire in the next.

Deciding to vote for a party that does not represent you is legitimate, but it is worth remembering that polls and calculations change. What today seems like a tactical vote may tomorrow be a wasted vote. And in politics, as at a bar counter, the one who surrenders to someone he does not believe in usually ends up demanding explanations.