“They will not be able to intimidate the socialists,” Pedro Sánchez has warned. Given the riots and violent concentrations that the extreme right is calling every night in front of the Ferraz headquarters and other town houses throughout Spain, the leader of the PSOE held a meeting this Wednesday with the employees of the socialists' headquarters in Madrid, after the siege and the altercations that occurred again this Tuesday at its doors.
The socialist general secretary, as reported by the party, has shown Ferraz's staff "his indignation at the violence that is being used to intimidate the PSOE." But he has assured them that “they will not be able to intimidate the socialists.”
Accompanied by the deputy secretary general of the PSOE, Minister María Jesús Montero, and other leaders of the federal leadership, Sánchez has conveyed his support to the Ferraz workers, and has reaffirmed “his commitment to the values and the socialist political project.”
“If these days that we are experiencing so unfortunate, so frustrating and so outrageous show anything, it is, evidently, the need to move forward,” said Sánchez, in reference to his own re-election as President of the Government. “And that this country be governed by the PSOE from reason and from the principles that we have always defended, which are freedom, democracy, rights and coexistence,” he has communicated to them.
The acting Minister of the Presidency, the socialist Félix Bolaños, has also insisted today on directing the focus against the attitude of the Popular Party in the face of these violent manifestations of the extreme right. “These days we are having a good example of how some great falsehoods, that democracy is in danger, that the rule of law is broken, that Spain is broken and that the Constitution is at risk, the only thing they do is feed the ultras” , he has denounced.
Bolaños has assured, in reference to the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that "we would appreciate it if these violent behaviors were not justified." “And when it is condemned, it should not be done with a small mouth to look good with the ultras,” he reproached. “We would appreciate it if sensible and responsible people clearly differentiate what is unacceptable violent behavior from what is democratic behavior,” the minister warned.
Meanwhile, the pressure and tension are maximum, as is the internal uncertainty, but the socialists continue to appeal for patience to face a key moment in the possible final stretch of the negotiation with Junts to definitively agree on the amnesty law proposal that would unblock the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
The PSOE delegation that remains installed in Brussels, led by Ferraz's organizational secretary, Santos Cerdán, with his deputy, Juan Francisco Serrano, continues one more day waiting to close an agreement with former president Carles Puigdemont and the leadership. of Junts, headed by Jordi Turull. And from Madrid, it is Minister Félix Bolaños who is leading the conversations. The negotiations and the exchange of proposals between both teams continue, no one throws in the towel.
But the initial intention of the socialists to be able to hold the investiture debate in Congress this week is blurred if the agreement is not reached today, and now it is gaining strength in the calendar that the plenary session can take place next week. Tomorrow, November 9, is a public holiday in Madrid. But if there is a definitive pact between the PSOE and Junts, all events would unfold quickly, according to the socialists.
