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Genoa they have already identified the person responsible for the two errors of the popular candidate in the European elections next Sunday, Miguel Arias Cañete. It is the director of the campaign, Carlos Floriano. “It wasn't me, it wasn't me.” It is the phrase that Miguel Arias Cañete now repeats every time he is asked about his role in the television face-to-face with Elena Valenciano , PSOE candidate for the European elections. But the worst came the next day, when he uttered his controversial words about the intellectual superiority of men over women. Two skids and, according to sources close to the party leadership consulted by El Confidencial Digital, in both cases the same person is identified as responsible: the director of the electoral campaign, Carlos Floriano . On the other hand, Miguel Arias Cañete is apologized. He continues to assess that he is the best possible candidate and “That he just had a bad day . ” He didn't feel comfortable The first mistake was the strategy designed for the face to face with Elena Valenciano on TVE. It was evident to Arias Cañete that he was not comfortable. He read the cards that had been prepared for him and was always on the defensive. The former minister has indicated to those close to him that he “did not feel comfortable.” “What he has repeated is that it was not him .
That she would have liked to attack and be himself . He is more Phone Number List spontaneous , more aggressive, he would have liked to go more on the attack and answer Elena Valenciano. But the instruction that Floriano gave him was that he stick to the chips , that he Phone Number List not go on the attack to avoid any out-of-character statements that Cañete sometimes makes," these sources explain. “The result is that the candidate was not good and lost. The strategy was not to lose by much. But then came the second mistake..." Sexism “If you abuse your intellectual superiority, it seems that you are a sexist, that you are cornering a defenseless woman.” Second mistake. These statements by Miguel Arias in the Antena 3 Television program 'Espejo Público' , directed and presented by Susanna Griso , have almost dynamited the electoral campaign. “You can't always have a good day. But again the mistake there is to take him to an interview, after the tension of the debate and the few hours that the former minister slept that night," argue PP sources. “He should never have gone to that interview ,” they say. And Pedro Arriola , the advisor to Marino Rajoy and José María Aznar ? “Whenever something goes wrong they blame him and that's the easy part. The debate was prepared with Pedro Arriola but also with Floriano, and the one who decided to take him to Antena 3 a few hours after the debate was not Arriola, but Floriano," they explain.
With only five days until the European elections, Ferraz assumes a narrow defeat against the PP, which, according to their calculations, would obtain 32% of the votes compared to 31% for the Socialists. Despite the defeat, the national leadership of the PSOE will sell that result as the beginning of a change in the political cycle compared to the 2011 general elections, in which the difference between both parties was 16 points. As PSOE leaders very close to the federal executive explain to El Confidencial Digital , in Ferraz they are conducting polls that predict a “very close” victory for the PP next Sunday. The socialists, according to these polls, would obtain between 30 and 31 percent of the votes , while the popular ones would be at 32 percent. The PSOE campaign team recognizes that, if these forecasts are met, the PP would get one more seat (19, compared to 18 for the socialists). They hope that, after the face to face between Cañete ahe main message that the PSOE wants to convey to its members and voters is that, despite the defeat, the party has obtained a “great result” , having managed to “reverse the voting trend” . The PSOE has cut 15 points The federal leadership has prepared a communication strategy based on the “comeback” that the current secretary general , Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, has obtained after the strong defeat in the 2011 general elections, and after beating Carme Chacón in the Congress of Seville three months after those elections.