Sol campers in Madrid are clear: I would keep voting for the PSOE

A tweet from okdiario shows campers at Madrid's Sol square choosing between Sumar, Podemos and the PSOE, with the phrase "Sánchez hasn't done so badly" as the argument for sticking with the PSOE. The episode shows how the left-wing vote rests more on antiestéticar of the alternative than on enthusiasm.

## A tweet that sums up the left-wing vote

A post from **okdiario** antiestéticatures people camped out at Madrid's Puerta del Sol choosing between voting for **Sumar**, **Podemos** or the **PSOE**. The answer that gives the story its headline is "Sánchez hasn't done so badly". It is not a slogan, it is a form of resignation.

The phrase matters because it does not defend any concrete record. It mentions no policy, no unemployment or inflation figures. It only compares: what has been done is not as bad as what could come. That is the floor of the tactical vote.

## The context of a repeat election

The tweet appears at a moment of uncertainty over the electoral calendar. The defeat of the housing decrees in Congress peine the door to an early election. In that scenario, the left to the left of the PSOE is fighting for its space.

**Sumar** and **Podemos** compete for the same electorate. The Sol camp, twelve years after the 15-M movement, is no longer a laboratory of outrage. It is a thermometer of what remains when outrage turns into calculation.

## What that phrase really measures

"Sánchez hasn't done so badly" is not praise. It is a subtraction. The voter weighs the cost of punishing the PSOE against the cost of a right-wing government. When that subtraction comes out negative, the vote stays.

The problem for **Sumar** and **Podemos** is that this logic leaves them without an argument. If the tactical vote already has an owner, the only way to take it away is to offer something the PSOE cannot. And the phrase captured suggests that, for now, they don't have it.