Sánchez accuses the PP of having an electoral program dictated by the banks and large energy companies

Pedro Sánchez begins the parliamentary course, in the control session to which he underwent this Wednesday in Congress, persevering in his strategy of ideological confrontation with the right.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
14 September 2022 Wednesday 08:35
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Sánchez accuses the PP of having an electoral program dictated by the banks and large energy companies

Pedro Sánchez begins the parliamentary course, in the control session to which he underwent this Wednesday in Congress, persevering in his strategy of ideological confrontation with the right. After the Popular Party voted the day before against even debating in the Chamber the new taxes on the extraordinary profits of the large financial entities and energy corporations, the head of the Executive has settled: "If something was clear yesterday, it is that the program The electoral campaign of the PP is the program of the great energy companies of this country”.

Both the PP spokeswoman, Cuca Gamarra, and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, have denounced in this control session that the shopping basket is skyrocketing, that going back to school is the most expensive in history for families or that the Spaniards are going to face the harshest winter, while the President of the Government, in his opinion, remains oblivious to the real needs of the citizens. But Sánchez has defended his management of the energy crisis and the rise in inflation, with transfers of up to 30,000 million euros of public resources, until the end of the year, to protect the middle and working class. The leader of the PSOE has criticized that, on the other hand, the right only defends the interests of the economic powers.

“Money has a lot of power, but the power in a democracy is that of the social majority. And this government is going to defend the social majority of this country”, Sánchez underlined. In his opinion, the right only defends the interests of "a powerful minority." "We are going to put all public resources at the service of the majority of the social class in this country," he assured.

The same reproach that Sánchez has transferred to Gamarra to Abascal, who has branded the Prime Minister a "capricious autocrat." The socialist leader, thus, has assured that Vox does not defend Spain, but the powerful: "They defend the interests of those above", he has replied to Abascal.

The problem is that the criticisms of Sánchez are added to those that he also receives from the left. The ERC spokesman, Gabriel Rufián, has thus lamented that the measures of the Executive "are usually stingy and not very brave". And that the result is that they end up "frustrating and disappointing" the left. And this is precisely "the kryptonite of the left and the gasoline of the right." Rufián has thus urged to promote initiatives with a greater social impact. "Because, if not, these people are getting stronger," the ERC spokesman warned Sánchez, pointing to the right-wing benches.