Sánchez suffers and Feijóo does not take off

These days, when I feel like provoking people by saying that the next general elections – whether this year or next – are not definitively decided, I encounter reactions of disbelief and even severe criticism around me. If in the group exchanging opinions there is someone from the right or liberal, the interruption is immediate, and they say things to me like “Have you lost your mind?”, “You’re completely lost”, or “It’s unbelievable you could think that.” On the other hand, if in the same group there is someone from the left – it doesn’t matter if radical, moderate, or in-between – what they first express is a lack of faith, but immediately accompanied by expressions of the type “Are you sure?”, “And what are you basing that belief on?”, or if the interlocutor is fond of irony, “Félix Tezanos must have told you that,” the director of the Sociological Research Centre (CIS), always accused of sweeping in favor of his own, the socialists. This difference between the respective reactions reveals that the right is very hopeful about regaining power, and sees it as practically done. It also reflects that the left lives with an accentuated feeling of anticipated defeat, but deep down wishing for an unexpected turn, an unlikely stroke of luck, or simply a miracle that will allow them to remain in power.