The long electoral pre-campaign in which Pedro Sánchez is immersed before the appointment with the municipal and regional polls next May has taken him this Saturday to Getafe, capital of the great south of the region and epicenter of what was once called the red belt of Madrid, whose mayorship managed to recover the socialists in 2015 with Sara Hernández. The chief executive and leader of the PSOE has taken advantage of the occasion to target, of course, the president of the Community of Madrid, the popular Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Also due to the refusal of the regional leader to condemn the habit of the students of the Elías Ahuja residence hall of shouting "whores and nymphomaniacs" at their neighbors from the Santa Mónica residence hall, according to the controversial video that has been revealed these days. “Sexism is not a tradition, it is an aberration!” Sánchez warned before the applause of the 1,450 supporters who, according to the organization, have gathered today to listen to him at the Juan de la Cierva sports center in this Madrid town.
Sánchez has recognized himself “outraged” at the videos that have been released from the Elías Ahuja school, and has warned that also “the statements of some political leaders”, in a veiled allusion to Ayuso, show that “in terms of gender equality and fight against machismo there is a lot to do in our country”.
The President of the Government has focused a large part of his speech on defending his fiscal policy, against the prescriptions of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and above all of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who is for the Socialists the greatest exponent of an ideology extreme neoliberal. Sánchez has denounced that the right wing calls the “debate between rich and poor” this “old”. "Really the old thing is to lower taxes on the rich!", He has replied. "And if not, ask the conservatives in the United Kingdom," he said, referring to Prime Minister Liz Truss's proposal, which had to be corrected immediately in the face of the collapse of the pound sterling and the British economy, despite Ayuso cited her precisely as an example to follow.
Sánchez has denounced "how quickly they take out the scissors" on the right, to cut pensions and the welfare state, and how instead they "drag their feet" if what it is about is raising taxes on energy corporations, financial entities and large fortunes. The leader of the PSOE has again used his policy of "fiscal justice" to achieve "social justice", and has defended a strong welfare state against the model of privatization of public services that he attributes to the PP. And he has also justified the public system of health, education and pensions for reasons of economic “efficiency”. "We receive more than we pay with our taxes," he explained.
For this reason, before Feijóo and Ayuso, Sánchez has defended "a first division tax system and not a third regional one". “We want a European Spain, with a European welfare state”, he assured, to the applause of the militancy. The long pre-election campaign continues, and Sánchez wants his ideological battle against the PP to begin to be settled, next May, at the municipal and regional polls.
