"Spain does not sink and does not break", Pedro Sánchez replied to the offensive launched by Alberto Núñez Feijóo for the Government agreements with Esquerra or EH Bildu, to repeal the crime of sedition from the Penal Code or transfer the powers of Traffic in Navarre from the Civil Guard to the regional government.
"Developing regional powers is complying with the Constitution", defended the head of the Executive, at the end of the Spanish-Romanian summit held in Castelló de la Plana, on the transfer of Traffic to Navarre. "The Government of Spain complies with the Constitution and develops the statutes of autonomy, in this case of the foral community of Navarra", he highlighted.
Sánchez has assumed, in any case, that "the opposition would like Spain to break up and sink." "But Spain is not sinking, on the contrary, because in very difficult circumstances it is growing above the European average and is creating jobs, and Spain is not breaking up" he assured. "It was about to break back in 2017, when others governed," he warned, referring to the mandate of Mariano Rajoy, when an illegal self-determination referendum was held in Catalonia and a unilateral declaration of independence was produced.
"Today, what we are doing is overcoming this trauma based on coexistence, demanding compliance with the Constitution and taking steps towards political détente in a territory as important to our country as Catalonia", Sánchez stressed.
The head of the Executive has also replied to the image of "instability" that the PP tries to attribute to him. "We are going to approve our third general state budget, in a timely manner, consecutively", he celebrated.
Sánchez, on the other hand, did not want to confirm whether the Council of Ministers will appoint next Tuesday the two magistrates of the Constitutional Court that it is up to him to propose if the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) does not already agree on the other two magistrates that compete. Although he has not ruled it out either. "We would not be in this situation if we did not suffer an absolutely denialist opposition, which what it does is be outside the Constitution and violate and not comply with its constitutional obligations for four years," he warned, referring to the PP.
"We would like an opposition that is closer to its commitments and constitutional obligations, more tight in providing solutions and not problems, and not so pending of the conservative media," Feijóo has stirred up. "Maybe it's too much to ask for," he lamented.
"But, in any case, the Government is going to comply with the Constitution and will appoint its two magistrates to the Constitutional Court," Sánchez stressed, while in the Executive they continue to trust that the CGPJ will propose their own first.
The President of the Government has also once again defended the Law on Sexual Freedom, which has been compromised due to the perverse effects that its application is having by some judges, by lowering the sentences of sexual offenders. “The law of yes is yes is a great conquest of the feminist movement. In these three years that we have been in the legislature, the record of services in defense and in the recognition of the rights of women of the Government of the progressive coalition, is beyond any doubt ”, he has wielded.
"It is evident that we are facing a new law, which needs to be established," he warned, given the unification of the doctrine that the Executive trusts that the Supreme Court will resolve along the same lines as the State Attorney General's Office. "We are going on the right path," said Sánchez, who has declared himself "proud" of this law. And he has expressed his full confidence in the work of judges and prosecutors. "I claim this law as a feminist conquest of a government that declares itself feminist," he has settled.
