“Once again, the decisive hour has come. And the first thing I want to tell you is that victory is possible", Pedro Sánchez warned in his initial speech before the PSOE federal committee, to try to shake the discouragement that runs through the socialist ranks before the early general elections on the 23rd of July. "Electoral victory is possible," he insisted, despite the fact that the blue wave of the right has swept away most of the regional and municipal power of the PSOE in the elections on May 28.
The President of the Government has called the Socialists to unite. "It is important that the PSOE come out united, brave and powerful," he warned. "Whether Spain advances or retreats will depend on our victory," Sánchez assured. After the hectic day on Friday, in which several territorial leaders of the PSOE flew into a rage at the imposition of some leaders related to Sánchez in starting positions in the electoral lists for the Congress and the Senate, the presidents of Castilla-La Mancha and Aragón, Emiliano García-Page and Javier Lambán (acting), as well as the mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, have been absent from the Federal Committee.
The leader of the PSOE has celebrated the agreement that Sumar and Podemos reached the day before to attend these general elections together. "This is more than positive news," he stressed. And he has assured that in this way the dispersion of the vote of the left will be avoided, which already caused in the 28-M elections that the PSOE will be evicted from many of the regional presidencies and the main mayoralties that it governed. The pact achieved by Yolanda Díaz in the political space to the left of the PSOE, stressed Sánchez, will avoid wasting energy "uselessly" and will also leave behind a "sterile noise", very demobilizing for the entire progressive electorate.
But, with everything, Sánchez has warned that "the maximum responsibility for what happens depends on the Socialists", in order to be able to reissue a progressive government after 23-J. "The PSOE is already underway and we are going out to win the elections," he assured. “We are not going to give up, we are going to make the journey continue”, he stated. “We are going to continue fighting the reactionary forces with all our might, to make Spain progress”, he insisted. And he has called on the "social majority" of the country to take "a step forward" and vote for the PSOE, "so that Spain continues to advance instead of going backwards."
Sánchez has also directed the focus against Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and has vindicated the Government's management as well as the good figures for economic growth and job creation registered, he has pointed out, international organizations such as the ECB, the IMF and the OECD. For this reason, he has warned of "a truth like a temple." "The Spanish economy is going like a motorcycle and it is not stagnant as Feijóo says", he has defended.
"There is no economic alternative on the part of the PP," warned the chief executive. “We have a plan and they have nothing. We have Nadia, and they have no one, ”he stressed, referring to his economic vice president, Nadia Calviño. "We have everything they don't have," Sánchez celebrated. Now only the votes are missing.
Despite the threat of a storm due to the composition of the lists, the PSOE federal committee has ended up approving by show of hands, “unanimously”, all the candidacies for Congress and the Senate. Responsibility has been imposed, also among the territorial leaders most hurt by the last-minute changes in their proposals that Ferraz has executed, and the not always well-aligned socialist family has once again staged a "closing of ranks", as they have celebrated in the leadership of the PSOE, before the general elections on July 23. And, in his final intervention, Pedro Sánchez has pronounced some very significant words to close the socialist conclave: "I know that I will stop being President of the Government, but not on 23-J".
