Pedro Sánchez was hungry for a rally and wanted to explain himself to his team and inject them with the morale of victory, his team points out, after a week out of combat due to covid. A week in which José María Aznar and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, but also Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra, increased the pressure to try to prevent the formation of a new government in Spain that would be handcuffed, as they denounce, by the Catalan independence movement.
Again under an inclement storm, therefore, Sánchez yesterday shook off the strong pressure that is trying to derail his re-election as president. And he showed that he remains undaunted on his path towards the investiture. With the endorsement, he insists, of the 23-J polls. "The Spaniards have spoken and there will be a progressive government, of course there will be!" He stated at the Galician socialists' party held in Oroso.
After the last general elections, which Feijóo won but in which Sánchez was reinforced with a million more votes than in 2019, he warned that “there are numbers so that the PSOE can continue governing for four more years.” He thus stressed that, after his inauguration, another long term will be opened, “to consolidate the advances in rights and coexistence.” All of this, he congratulated himself, “is bad for the right.”
Sánchez lashed out against the Galician Feijóo – in his own land, where the socialists claim to know him very well –, embarking on an investiture that he predicted would fail, but which he criticized for adding successive “nonsense”, shouting again that “ “Spain is breaking.” “Spain does not break, it does not sink. “Spain yawns at the enormous waste of time of Feijóo's investiture and his lie,” he replied. “What is breaking is not Spain, it is the Popular Party,” he warned. This will happen, as he predicted, when the investiture of the PP leader fails.
A quote to which Sánchez assured that Feijóo "is not running to be head of the Government, but to be elected head of the opposition." And so it will be, he predicted. “Feijóo will be head of the opposition, and that will be great news for Spain, because there will be a progressive government that continues to revalue pensions, raise the minimum wage and dignify the conditions of workers, for the advancement of rights and freedoms,” he promised. Sanchez. With his own investiture, he assumed, “the PP will go into opposition and the PSOE will continue to govern for four more years.”
Sánchez highlighted that in the face of "frustration" at remaining in the opposition, the PP resorts to "the usual outrage, noise and insults." “We socialists have been in democracy for more than forty years, according to them, breaking Spain. But what is hidden behind all that cascade of expletives is the only point of the electoral program of the PP and Vox: that the PSOE does not govern.”
And he criticized that Feijóo, despite governing with the extreme right in communities and city councils, and being his only ally for the investiture, has claimed the support of the PNV or the PSOE itself. “Then he criticizes that others talk to the Catalan nationalist party, Junts per Catalunya, and they themselves have been talking to Junts in secret,” he said.
"In the latest nonsense of this failed investiture of Feijóo, at the direction of Aznar, they are going to hold a rally next weekend, a few days before Feijóo's investiture, to demonstrate against the investiture of the PSOE," he questioned. the event that the PP will hold in Madrid next Sunday.
Without revealing anything about the conversations with the Catalan independence movement to be able to undo his investiture, or alluding to a possible amnesty, Sánchez assured that he will fulfill what he promised in the electoral campaign: "I said that I would look for votes even under the stones, to revalue pensions, to dignify the minimum wage, increasing scholarships, and for harmony between the people of Spain, for coexistence between citizens.” And he guaranteed that he will.
Sánchez took a bath of militants, among 3,000 supporters who cheered him. An act in which the Galician socialists, including classic leaders such as Abel Caballero, closed ranks with the leader of the PSOE after a week in which veteran former leaders, led by Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra, fired their criticism against the negotiation with the Catalan independence movement of a possible amnesty for those prosecuted by the process to facilitate their new investiture.
“We Galician socialists are with you!” guaranteed the president of the PSdeG, the veteran Carmela Silva. And very significant, in an organic way, was the message that the current head of the Galician socialists, Valentín González Formoso, also conveyed to him. “Pedro, do what you have to do to build a better country and guarantee progress. “Do what you have to do!” He encouraged him, given the negotiations with Junts and ERC for the investiture. And he warned that, for this, Sánchez “has an entire centenary party behind him.” “We are all Felipistas, guerristas, Zapatistas, Pedristas, but above all we are socialists!” He cried.
In the next rallies scheduled on his agenda, Sánchez will also be supported by the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, and the leader of the Andalusian socialists, Juan Espadas. The objective is to demonstrate to critical voices that, indeed, Sánchez has the entire party behind him.
