"I consider myself a politician with principles and strong convictions", defended Pedro Sánchez, after participating this Wednesday in the last day of the NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), to justify his position in the electoral debate that last Monday starred with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. And, at the same time, to denounce the attitude that he has reproached the leader of the Popular Party, with an opposition strategy that he has considered based on "lies, manipulation and evil." As he already did in the same face-to-face, Sánchez has assured that he "has to be outraged" at the strategy that he has blamed on his electoral rival.
"I rebel when I hear that a string of lies are told, as they were told in the debate," stressed the chief executive. "I also rebel when I hear a macho party such as Vox whitewash, and the pacts that the PP is signing with Santiago Abascal's party in many town halls and autonomous communities," he added.
"And I also rebel against a stark use that is being made of the terrorism that we defeated in 2011, and that is breaking the most sacred thing in our country, which is the unity around the victims," warned Sánchez. It should be remembered that the President of the Government did not receive a response when he called on the head of the opposition to distance himself from the slogan "That I vote for you Txapote" that is brandished by the extreme right and that PP leaders have also raised.
Sánchez has reiterated this reaction after his only debate with Feijóo before the general elections on July 23. "I rebel against this situation of lies, of bankruptcy of the unity around the victims of terrorism, and before this attempt to launder some pacts that take us back 40 years in everything that has to do with the rights of the women," he insisted.
"And I will continue to do that," he stated, to ensure that his electoral strategy will not change despite the fact that his debate with Feijóo did not meet the expectations set by the Socialists.
"I don't know if it has electoral performance or it does not have electoral performance," he has assumed. "But the public service that I must do, as President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, is to denounce this type of attitude when it comes to exercising politics and criticizing those pacts that are making us go backwards," Sánchez assured.
The President of the Government has also warned that "unlike what has happened in many other elections throughout democracy, we are not playing only alternation" in the appointment with the polls on 23-J. "We are playing if Spain continues to advance or we get into a time tunnel that we do not know exactly where it can take us," Sánchez warned.
