“We will govern for all Spaniards, four more years, with social advances in favor of the social majority, with coexistence and with institutional stability.” This has been the commitment that Pedro Sánchez has assured to assume before the Spanish society, already with an absolute majority willing to endorse his investiture as President of the Government next week in Congress, before the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the rest of the social democratic leaders meeting this Saturday at the plenary session of the congress of the European Socialist Party (PES) being held in Malaga.
Despite the protests of the right against Sánchez's investiture pacts, and the altercations that the extreme right provokes every night in its calls before the PSOE headquarters, or precisely because of this harsh offensive with more reasons, the plenary session of the social democratic congress has exploded in a loud applause when the acting head of the Executive has already celebrated his imminent re-election. “Spain is going to have four more years of progressive government, four more years of social progress, progressive policies, institutional stability and coexistence,” Sánchez confirmed to the attendees, in English and Spanish, to great applause.
“That is exactly what the majority of the Spanish people voted for on July 23,” said Sánchez, who wanted to share his “immense joy” with all the European social democratic leaders gathered in Malaga.
The leader of the PSOE has highlighted the importance of these elections being able to stop the emergence of a “reactionary government” in Spain, made up of the Popular Party and the far-right Vox, not only in our country but throughout progressive Europe, and has even remembered how the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Olof Palme, raised funds against the Franco dictatorship, or the demonstrations of support in Paris, Lisbon, Brussels or Bonn against the last executions of the dictatorship, before the transition to democracy.
“I do not appeal to those memories by chance,” Sánchez warned. “These days – she has pointed out – the most nostalgic extreme right of that cruel Franco dictatorship exhibits symbols and proclamations of a dark past for Spain. A past that we believed to be overcome, and whose echo resonates today with the complicity of a traditional right already parasitized by the extreme right.”
Sánchez has thus denounced “a misguided right, which has been unable to stand up to the most reactionary extreme right.” The leader of the PSOE has thus explicitly addressed the PP, to demand “sanity and restraint” from them. Just tomorrow, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has called for demonstrations throughout Spain to protest against his investiture agreements, especially with the Catalan independence movement and the amnesty for those accused of the process.
“What they must do is accept the result of the polls, the legitimacy of the government that we are going to form soon in Spain. That they have the necessary courage to say no to the bear hug of the extreme right and that they abandon the reactionary path on which they are advancing towards the abyss today,” Sánchez stressed, again to loud applause.
The leader of the PSOE has insisted that, with their vote on 23-J, citizens indicated that “Spain can only be governed if the political pluralism of its country and also its territorial diversity are recognized.” “The PP only understands itself and can only agree with one political force, which is the extreme right of Vox, with no one else. On the other hand, the PSOE is the force that can agree with all other political forces, except with one, which is Vox,” he stressed. In favor of his investiture, in fact, the Socialist Group, Sumar, Esquerra Republicana, Junts per Catalunya, EH Bildu, the PNV, the BNG and the Canarian Coalition have already placed themselves. The block is not only made up of the PP, Vox and UPN.
“The new government is expected to move forward next week with the support of 179 seats of the 350 deputies that make up the Cortes Generales,” Sánchez highlighted. And he has defended his legitimacy, despite accusations from the right. “All of them are legitimate representatives of the popular will,” he warned. “With that strength and that legitimacy that gives us the power to agree with everyone,” the leader of the PSOE assured, he has reiterated his commitment to Spanish society, as he has assured that he has maintained in the five years that he has already been in Moncloa: “We will govern for all Spaniards.” “Spain – he has concluded – today more than ever is the owner of its future, and not a slave to its past.”
