Without contemplations. Pedro Sánchez defended this Monday that "the ultimate consequences be reached in the clarification of one of the most regrettable and shameful events in the democratic history of our country." “The fact that State resources as important as the State security forces and bodies are used to persecute political adversaries has very few parallels or examples in other consolidated democracies,” denounced the head of the Executive, in an interview on Radio Nacional de Spain, in response to the joint investigation carried out by La Vanguardia and elDiario.es on the State sewers during the mandates of Mariano Rajoy.
Sánchez has warned, in this sense, that the investigative commissions opened on the matter in Congress in this new legislature are absolutely necessary, because what this information is revealing about the so-called patriotic police under the command of the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díez, “demonstrates the extent to which the Popular Party, when it is in government, uses the levers of the State.”
The Chief Executive, in any case, wanted to convey “a message of confidence and tranquility to citizens.” “Since we came to the Government of Spain, these State levers have not been used for anything, except to guarantee the security of citizens. Of course, not for partisan interests as is clearly demonstrated in this information,” he stressed.
Sánchez has assured that, from the judicial and parliamentary investigations carried out to date, and from the new information that La Vanguardia and elDiario.es are publishing as of today, it is clear that “there is a clear responsibility, at least political, of the main rulers in the previous administration.”
Faced with these allegedly irregular practices of the PP to combat the independence movement, the President of the Government has defended his agenda for coexistence since he arrived at the Moncloa in 2018. “I found a country broken from a constitutional and territorial point of view, as a consequence of the incompetence of the person who was previously at the head of the Spanish government,” said Sánchez, referring to Rajoy.
The socialist leader has vindicated his ability to negotiate and agree with the pro-independence groups, on which the course of the legislature depends, despite the tensions experienced to validate the first decrees of the mandate. “We are in the era of fragmented parliamentary majorities and therefore we have to make dialogue and negotiation the main asset when it comes to achieving consensus to, for example, revalue pensions,” he assured. “It is great news that pro-independence parties that until yesterday were saying that they had to get out of the governability of Spain and reject any type of political stability in the State, are participating today,” said Sánchez, in reference to Junts and Esquerra. , and also to EH Bildu.
“The fact that Bildu, Esquerra Republicana and Junts per Catalunya join Spanish democracy, to have constructive positions in the governance of our country, is extraordinary news,” he stressed, after denouncing the “destructive opposition” in which In his opinion, the PP is installed.
Sánchez has assured “I do not operate in a vacuum”, in such a fragmented Parliament, thanks to his agreements with Junts and ERC, the PNV and EH Bildu. The PSOE, he has defended, “is capable of articulating all that complexity” to achieve a horizon of stability in the legislature.
