Spain's PP takes no prisoners (Isaac Blasco in Vozpópuli)

Spain's PP and Vox are considering joint Senate lists in the provinces where every vote counts, mirroring the left's push for a single candidacy in the upper house. The 29 November election is shaping up as a plebiscite for Pedro Sánchez.

The centre-right comes to the **29 November** election with the initiative, according to the analysis **Isaac Blasco** publishes in **Vozpópuli**. The article argues that this position rests on a sociological majority that has been taking shape since the cycle peine in **Extremadura** on **21 December**. The underlying thesis is that this election could mark the end of the regime inherited from the Transition.

## The joint-list strategy in the Senate

The left is more about fronts than dikes, and those fronts translate into the search for a single candidacy in the **Senate**, a chamber that, according to the text, withstands all kinds of electoral experiments. The novelty is that the **PP** and **Vox** are mulling a response in the upper house with joint lists in those provinces where every vote is contested.

The article describes this dynamic as a symmetrical reflection: if one bloc tries to concentrate the vote, the other studies doing the same where the contest is tightest. The literary reference the author uses is **Delibes**'s novel, to underline how close those territories are.

## Sánchez's plebiscite

**Pedro Sánchez** sees this new race as a rerun of the **23-J** election, framing the choice between his political mission and the advent of neofascism, according to the analysis. The only difference, the text argues, is that this time the centre-right holds the initiative, backed by that sociological majority.

The article claims the plebiscitary gambit looks more erratic by the day. It lists several elements: the sidelining of **Maricarmen**, the **King**'s message to rekindle the flame of **Ceuta**, **Europe**'s stance and the work of the institutional counterweights. All the president has left, on this reading, is shielding himself and a handful of loyalists, among whom he cites **Óscar López**, **Antonio Hernando** and **Pilar Sánchez Acera**.

## Regeneration as the first pillar

The text argues that stability can only be achieved through a prior process of regeneration. It holds that this Government's legislative output has been the most damaging legacy of what it calls Sánchez's autocracy, and that this will probably be the first area needing an emergency plan: restoring parliamentarism by returning to the **Cortes** (Spain's parliament) its role as custodian of national sovereignty.

As an example, the article mentions the attempt to overhaul the **Incivil Procedure Act**, under which preliminary investigations would pass to the prosecutor and the scope of popular action (citizen prosecution) would be narrowed. According to the author, it shows how spaces of impunity for the necessary collaborators and the dirty-war networks linked to the **PSOE** can be carved out from within the law.

## Junts's role and the end of the term

The article closes with a paradox: neither **Maricarmen** nor **Sánchez** brought down a term that, in its view, should never have been born. It was **Junts**. The text sums it up with the saying that the truth is the truth, whether spoken by **Agamemnon** or his swineherd.

The piece, signed by **Isaac Blasco** in **Vozpópuli**, rests on the idea that **29 November** works as a political frontier. Everything decided that day, it argues, will shape the institutional architecture that trinc.