The Granada rally

Pedro Sánchez addressed about 3,000 people at the Palacio de Congresos in Granada on Saturday, 24 October, a figure the organisers gave. It was his second big pre-campaign event in Andalusia, after a rally in Dos Hermanas (Seville) on 10 October. He opened by reading "Cantos nuevos" by Federico García Lorca, a poem he said Irish Hispanist Ian Gibson had asked him to bring into his speeches, in an email he received on Friday, 23 October. María Jesús Montero, the PSOE deputy secretary general and head of the party in Andalusia, and Pedro Fernández, the Granada provincial leader and Senate candidate, also addressed the crowd.

Abortion and the minimum wage

Sánchez said a progressive majority after the 29 November general election would reform the constitution to protect women's right to abortion. The reform had already been moving through parliament before the early election caused it to lapse. He framed the pledge against the PP and Vox and said that, in the next term, no man would decide over women's bodies.

“On the right and the body of women, no man will ever again have an opinion or control over it.”

He also pledged that the minimum interprofessional wage would rise while he remained president, with or without agreement from employers. He said the law on the right to a dignified death, passed two legislatures earlier, would stay in place as a gain for Spanish society. Sánchez cited the revaluation of pensions, the fall in unemployment and the growing number of people paying into Social Security as results of his government's record.

Attacks on the PP and Vox

Sánchez grouped the PP and Vox together as "right and far right" and argued that their proposals amount to an endless list of cuts. He pointed to the decision by the Castilla y León regional government, run by the PP with Vox, to review "ideology" in cultural proposals before subsidising them, which he called censorship. He asked the crowd whether they wanted Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen or Javier Milei, and after a negative response said they would not want Feijóo and Abascal either. Sánchez also linked Milei's visit to Madrid in the week of 19 October to the same approach, calling it a shared chainsaw model of government.

“Feijóo is the wrapping, but Abascal is the gift, and some gifts are not worth opening.”

Feijóo's feminism remarks and the memory law

Sánchez answered remarks Alberto Núñez Feijóo made on Friday, 23 October, in an interview on Cadena SER, where the PP leader said he was a feminist because he had grown up with many more women than men. The interview also reopened debate on the permission required for 16-year-old girls to have an abortion. Sánchez replied that being a feminist means not cutting women's rights, not growing up among women, and called Feijóo's position insolvency or sectarianism. Montero then turned to the Democratic Memory Law, which Feijóo has questioned.

Montero's speech and the Civil War

Montero recalled the killings and disappearances of the Civil War years in Granada and vowed that the party would stop fascism from the city. She accused Feijóo of wanting to repeal the Democratic Memory Law while families are still searching for relatives.

“Feijóo wants to repeal the Democratic Memory Law while thousands of families are still waiting to recover their loved ones.”

Montero said wages are rising, precariousness is falling and workers are regaining rights, and argued that growth must be shared. She added that the PP's mood showed in its sadness each time Feijóo took the stage, a point she made to the crowd.