The disorder registered in the last weeks in the government coalition does not worry the leader of the Executive who predicts that "all the parties will arrive united" at the end of the legislature. "We have to keep moving forward, and it is good that the lefts understand each other and agree on measures" until the general elections scheduled for the end of 2023, he stressed.
During an informal chat with the press traveling to cover the tour of the Western Balkans, Pedro Sánchez pointed out that "the priority is not to arrive together for the sake of it, but because the government has an important task. It has to be a strong government with a majority to deal with the just response to events", he assured from Mostar, in Bosnia Herzegovina.
In the government team they value the full compliance of a four-year legislature as a guarantee to end "the governance crisis in which the PP put Spain in 2015." And they argue this in the implementation of 150 legislative projects, the two consecutive budgets approved in a timely manner, as well as the "very profound and far-reaching" reforms carried out in terms of pensions, labor reform and education.
The important thing, he insisted, is for what and for whom this Government governs. Two issues perfectly internalized in the Executive after the turn to the left in the recent debate on the state of the nation. "What for? To protect the working middle classes and to transform Spain and keep it moving forward. And for whom? For the majority," Sánchez stressed.
Within these deadlines, the leader of the Executive has no doubts that the platform led by Yolanda Díaz under the name of Sumar "will arrive in time to consolidate itself to be able to attend the elections." Something that will not happen for the May 2023 elections, given that Díaz herself has repeated that Sumar will have a state character and therefore will not have its own lists in the regional and municipal elections.
And it has minimized the internal tensions of its coalition partner by framing them in the internal process when it comes to fitting the pieces together and defining the "respective quotas of power".
Normality is the context from which Sánchez contemplates the various maneuvers aired to date on the purple flank and admits "empathizing with a government that has experienced extreme situations", which banishes any type of anger, but not discomfort, with some of recent performances.
However, the President of the Government says he understands the frustration that Podemos has shown in some moments of the legislature with the speed and the final result of some parliamentary procedures as something attributable to the lack of "previous experience" at the head of a government.
