Without compromising deadlines, or revealing any point about the content or scope of the agreements that may be reached to achieve a parliamentary majority that supports his new investiture, and especially with the Catalan independence movement, Pedro Sánchez has guaranteed this Thursday his re-election as president of the government. He has done it just on the eve of Congress tomorrow certifying, as planned, that Alberto Núñez Feijóo does not have enough support to reach Moncloa. Spain, the leader of the PSOE stated, “is preparing to repeat a progressive coalition government within a short time.”
“That is the mandate of the social majority that manifested itself and expressed itself freely at the polls in the last general elections, of a social majority that chose to advance and not retreat, that said yes to progress and coexistence, and that said no. resounding to the repealing proposal of a right dedicated to the reactionary theses of the extreme right,” the acting head of the Executive has alleged.
Sánchez thus closed the conference held in Madrid by the social democratic group of the European Parliament, and congratulated the MEPs for being able to “attend in real time the consummation of the defeat of the reactionary proposal of the Popular Party and Vox in the Cortes. Generals.”
“The electoral defeat of his attempted setback occurred on July 23, the consummation of his parliamentary defeat will occur this week and you will be able to see it live,” he noted, in reference to the final investiture vote. of Feijóo that will take place tomorrow in Congress.
In the 23-J elections, Sánchez insisted, Spanish society launched a message of “enormous symbolic value”, also with “European reach”, in view of the elections to the European Parliament scheduled for June next year. “The Spaniards said with their vote, clearly to all of Europe, that the extreme right is not unstoppable, that the extreme right can be stopped,” he highlighted. “Although the traditional right has given in, and has submitted to the extreme right, they said that another path is possible,” he said. “It was here, in Spain, where the votes stopped the advance of the extreme right that we are seeing throughout Europe,” he reiterated.
“Yes, we stopped the reactionary wave in Spain, no matter who it may be. And yes, we are going to stop it in the next European elections,” he encouraged the social democratic MEPs, led by the Spanish Iratxe García, who has previously warned that Sánchez is “the hope to stop the extreme right that is sweeping the entire continent.” and for this it has the full support of the European social democratic family.
Sánchez has described the progressive forces in Europe as a “beacon of hope.” “We have a tremendous challenge before us, we are facing powerful forces, from a political but also an economic point of view, that finance these political and ideological theses,” he warned. Forces, he has warned, “that lack limits and scruples.” Forces, he has insisted, “that use fear, lies and manipulation to poison society with messages of hate.”
The leader of the PSOE has drawn a Feijóo aligned with the extreme right of Vox. “The rise of the extreme right is possible due to the abdication of a conventional right of the PP that has been unable to resist the onslaught of the extreme right, and that ends up succumbing due to weakness, ideological weakness and also fear.” This is demonstrated, in his opinion, by the fact that the PP has sealed government pacts with Vox in numerous autonomous communities and city councils, where it has been able to join forces to dislodge the PSOE. “He has not hesitated for a second,” he reproached.
“In the failed investiture of the failed right-wing candidate, we saw with amazement the complicated rhetoric between the leaders of the PP and Vox, they no longer hide it, nor do they hide it,” Sánchez lamented. “It is no longer about normalizing the extreme right, it is about assuming its postulates,” he reproached. That is what, in his opinion, “the conventional right” is doing in Spain. “The worst thing is who has parasitized whom,” he denounced. And this supposes, he has insisted, “the surrender of the traditional right to the postulates of the extreme right.”
The acting head of the Executive has thus criticized that the PP “loosens the sanitary cordons, when it does not eliminate them, and surrenders to the reactionary wave of the extreme right.” In the face of this “surrender right,” Sánchez has replied that “social democracy will never give up, our legs will never shake.” “On the contrary,” he promised, “we are going to combat the poison of hatred that the extreme right sows.”
For all this, Sánchez has contrasted “the hope and optimism” that he has highlighted that his political project represents, with “the frustration, bitterness and fear that feeds the monster of the extreme right”, and to which the PP would have submitted. , as in his opinion was demonstrated in Feijóo’s failed investiture debate.