"As long as he is President of the Government, the State and all its financial resources will be at the service of citizens, and not the other way around," Pedro Sánchez promised during the debate he is leading this Tuesday in the Senate against the leader of the Popular Party , Alberto Núñez Feijoo. All the power of the State to protect people from the energy, inflationary and economic crisis, and not "at the service of some powerful groups", as Sánchez has criticized that the PP did to face the financial crisis of the past decade , which caused “mass layoffs”.
The situation is "devilish", Sánchez has recognized. "The immediate future of Spain is dominated by uncertainty," he has assumed, as has happened in Europe and the world as a whole since Vladimir Putin began his war in Ukraine. “Prices are through the roof”, he has insisted, without wanting to put “hot cloths” on the situation. "We don't know what is going to happen, because we are talking about an authoritarian state, where dissidents mysteriously fall from windows," the chief executive warned, referring to Putin's Russia.
The uncertainty is absolute, therefore, in terms of energy, the rise in prices and the economy as a whole. But Sánchez has warned that “we are preparing for the worst”, in the event that Putin opts for the total closure of gas supplies to Europe. And, as for the new energy saving and efficiency measures that the Government is preparing, the president has asserted something forcefully: “They will not be dramatic measures, there will be no electricity blackouts, nor rationing of butane cylinders , nor any of those apocalyptic scenes that evoke the benches of the right and the extreme right along with the media that cheer those messages.
"Citizens can rest easy," assured the chief executive, who has insisted that he will do "everything in our power and more to bend the inflation curve." But always putting the protection of the families of the middle and working classes and the companies, without reproducing "the obscene neoliberal script" that has been attributed to the PP or submitting to "a few groups in Madrid."
But Sánchez wanted to take advantage of this debate in the Senate to "unmask" Feijóo. And he has begun by warning him that "a public official cannot behave like a shaman or a healer." "And what a political leader should never do is play with the fear of the population," he stressed. The head of the Executive has urged to choose, given the complex situation that the country is going through, between "fear or hope", between "being part of the problem or the solution". Sánchez, for his part, has defended hope and a solution.
Already in his reply to Feijóo, Sánchez has entered to kill. The president has lamented that he cannot reach an agreement with the main opposition party, neither in the face of the pandemic nor now in the face of a war. "The opposition cannot ignore the fate of the country," he warned. And he has denounced that the only interest of the PP, before with the pandemic and now with the war, is "trying to undermine and bring down the Government of Spain." "It seems that any occasion is a good one to throw the Government to the ground," he lamented.
Sánchez has also warned that most of the proposals that Feijóo announces as alternatives "lack technical rigor." "The things he says do not support the image of a good manager that you claim to have," he criticized the PP leader. And then he has begun to repeat the message that he has wanted to underline throughout the afternoon: “Is it insolvency or bad faith?”
The claim of the leader of the PP to "push him to the precipice every time he has an opportunity", he has insisted, will fail no matter how much the polls give him wings. "His only project for his country is to kick out the evil Sánchez," the president ironized. “It is going to fail as Casado failed in his attempt to bend the Government”, he has predicted. "Is it insolvency or pure bad faith?" Sánchez insisted. “I think there is a little of both”, he has settled.
