Everything is ready in Seville so that tomorrow the PSOE will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the party's absolute majority victory in the 1982 elections, elections that were awarded to 202 deputies in the Congress of Deputies (43 of them Andalusians) and that He handed over the presidency to Felipe González. No other party in the following legislatures has managed to reap such good results, turning this moment into a historical milestone in the country. It will be the one who was then the leader of Spain together with the current head of the national Executive, Pedro Sánchez, the headliners of the event, which will take place at the Palacio de Congresos in Seville.
However, who has monopolized all the protagonism of the act has been Alfonso Guerra (vice president of the Government from 82 to 91), essential architect of the victory of González and the organization of the PSOE, declaring that he had not received any invitation to attend to the act and that it did not seem strange to him.
"They haven't invited me, surely it's because I wasn't in the leadership of the party at that time, others would be," he recently declared in an interview with Canal Sur. Although the training has tried to rectify to bury the controversy as soon as possible, the truth is that everything indicates that the Sevillian will not attend the commemoration. "I would say that things are already a little behind," he pointed out.
This 40th anniversary is an open act and "the 185,000 militants" are invited, they point out from the party, from where it has been clarified that, after the declarations of war, they sent invitations to all those socialist deputies who won a seat in the elections of that year , among which is the charismatic Sevillian politician, as well as those who were at the top of the list in each Andalusian province, including the one convicted of the ERE case, Manuel Chaves. It has also transpired that the former president of the Board Susana Díaz has been summoned to the event.
The idea is that these personalities occupy the first row, although the main interventions will be those of former President González and that of the Chief Executive, Sánchez. The message that will be conveyed from the stage will revolve around the role of Spain in Europe over the last decades, from Felipe's government until now. "Europe will have an important role in the speech" of President Sánchez, point out from Ferraz.
Although the possibility of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero attending the event was considered, in the end this will not be the case as he will travel to Brazil to witness the second round of the presidential elections. Those who will intervene will be the president of the party, Cristina Narbona; the deputy secretary general, María Jesús Montero; the general secretary of the PSOE-A, Juan Espadas; and the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, as sources from the PSOE leadership have confirmed.
"I think that celebrating the fact that a socialist government, and a figure like Felipe González, were decisive for Spain at that time" in 1982 "is also recognizing how, at a time like this, also difficult and with a socialist government at the helm, once again we see the determination, audacity, courage and a way of governing that connects with the real needs of the vast majority of Spanish society, and that, especially in the pandemic" and now with the "crisis" derived from the war in Ukraine, "It is at the height of our country," commented recently Juan Espadas, general secretary of the PSOE-A.
It was "the greatest support that a government has ever had" in Congress after elections in Spain and that victory "signified the definitive boost to Spanish democracy, to the changes and transformations" pending in the country, he said.
For the Sevillian, this act, with the participation of both González and Sánchez, "is a clear message that we socialists can lose or win elections, but we will always be there to match what the country or Andalusia needs in each moment, and we are proving it right now", he commented.
