“We have the investiture ever closer,” Pedro Sánchez assured this Wednesday upon his arrival at the Tripartite Social Summit, which is being held in Brussels and in which the acting second vice president of the Executive, Yolanda Díaz, also participates, with whom the The day before, he signed the programmatic agreement between the PSOE and Sumar to form a new progressive government coalition in Spain if there is an investiture.
The most relevant thing about the alliance signed yesterday between the PSOE and Sumar, the acting President of the Government highlighted, is that “we have the investiture getting closer and closer and we are moving forward.” “We are going without pause to comply with the mandate of the Spanish citizens,” he assured. The mandate of the Spanish, expressed in the general elections of last July 23, has highlighted that it is threefold: “That there is no Feijóo government with Abascal, and that has fortunately been avoided; that there be no electoral repetition; and, most importantly, that policies of coexistence, stability and progress continue to be implemented in our country.”
The socialist leader has thus hoped that the new legislature will begin "with a Government sooner rather than later." And he has insisted that the pact between the PSOE and Sumar obeys the three main objectives that have been set for the legislature, if it is successful. The first is the “political stability” of the country, in line with what he has highlighted that has existed in the last four years in Spain. Secondly, the “policies of progress”. And, lastly, the “coexistence policies”, he explained, in veiled reference to the territorial conflict in Catalonia.
“We have faced a very difficult inherited situation, the greatest constitutional crisis of the last 45 years in our country. And we are in the line of continuing to build that coexistence," he highlighted, without wanting to explain for now his position regarding the amnesty law for those accused of the process demanded by the Catalan independence movement, nor reveal anything about the ongoing negotiations with Junts and ERC. .
Sánchez has highlighted, in any case, that the agreement sealed between the PSOE and Sumar "represents the social majority of our country." “Whatever the people voted on July 23, and whether they voted where they voted, that is, no matter where those Spaniards live, there is a large majority of citizens who feel represented in many of the policies that are part of the government agreement between the PSOE and Sumar”, he assured.
From there, and regarding the negotiations with the rest of the parliamentary forces necessary to articulate a new majority of investiture and legislature, Sánchez has reiterated his position of maximum discretion, and compliance, at any extreme, with the Constitution . “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” he insisted. “The method is dialogue and the framework is the Constitution,” he stressed. “All Spaniards must have the guarantee,” he concluded.
Although he has alleged that his eventual agreements with Junts and ERC for the investiture will not be known until they are reached, as has happened with the pact between the PSOE and Sumar, without making any mention for now of the amnesty law. “I have shown in recent years that I show my face, that I do not hide, that I roll up my sleeves and face the inherited problems, not caused by this administration, but inherited from previous administrations, and also the problems and challenges of the present,” has justified.
The PSOE leader has ironically commented on the admonitions of some PP leaders, and particularly Isabel Díaz Ayuso, that if there are another four years of progressive government “there will no longer be Spaniards in our country.” “This tremendousness, this degree of insults and disqualification, I don't know if they will be able to tolerate it and endure it for the next four years,” he replied, in the face of the offensive from the right.
