"This government knows very well for whom it governs," he warned. Still bleeding wounds from the electoral debacle of the left in Andalusia, Pedro Sánchez yesterday took advantage of the approval of the new plan against the inflationary crisis and the announcement of the future tax that will tax the profits of large energy corporations. Sánchez recovered a speech similar to the one he used when, in October 2016, he was ousted by the PSOE establishment and accused certain de facto powers – economic, political and media – of contributing to his fall to impose a conservative government in Spain.
"It is evident that this is a government that is annoying for certain economic interests, which have their media and political terminals," said Sánchez from Moncloa before the change in the political cycle in Spain promoted by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “This is not a comfortable government, it is a very uncomfortable government for certain economic powers, which have both political and media terminals,” he reiterated, without giving names and surnames to said factual powers that, in his opinion, are trying to overthrow from the first day to the coalition Executive between the PSOE and United We Can. It is not necessary to put them on, he came to say: "It is something that is at street level, anyone who analyzes it with a minimum of objectivity will be able to see it," he alleged.
Sánchez, however, claimed the "first progressive coalition government" of democracy and challenged: "I already tell those interests that, of course, they are not going to break us. And we are going to continue defending the interests of the middle and working class of this country.”
If the day before he reiterated from Brussels that "no matter how much noise and turbulence there is, the legislature will end when it has to end, in December 2023", yesterday Sánchez insisted on defending from Moncloa the resistance of his mandate and his coalition with United We Can , despite the constant internal brawls in which he gets involved, on this last occasion to agree on the new anti-crisis plan approved by a Council of Ministers meeting extraordinarily on Saturday. The president praised all the ministers, both socialist and purple, "because they work tirelessly, day and night, to try to respond to the multiple crises that Europe is going through and, consequently, Spain". "Absolute empathy and solidarity with my entire team, because they are doing a commendable job and an extraordinary effort," he stressed.
The first progressive coalition government of democracy, he insisted, "knows very well who it defends, what interests it defends and whom it obeys." “We govern for the middle and working class of this country, and we already know that this annoys certain economic powers. But we are going to follow that roadmap because we believe that it is the one that our fellow citizens deserve and need,” defended the president.
“It is true that this government is beaten a lot, by certain powers. But those powers have to be aware that this is an autonomous government, which serves the middle and working class of this country”, he stressed. This was the strong message, from the political point of view, that he made an effort to convey yesterday during his long appearance in Moncloa.
What Sánchez did not rule out is that he could impose new replacements in the Government, probably later, or in the PSOE executive, perhaps more imminently. "I have a problem: if I were going to do it, I wouldn't say it, and if I told them that I wasn't going to do it, they wouldn't believe me," he quipped. And he limited himself to reiterating his support for the Council of Ministers and the leadership of the PSOE.
Sánchez, on the other hand, once again defended the new reform of the organic law of the Judiciary registered on Friday by the PSOE in Congress, in order to renew the Constitutional Court without the concurrence of the PP, and thus achieve a progressive majority in his breast. But, on this occasion, he used to justify this initiative the repeal of the right to abortion by the Supreme Court of the United States.
"It is a very serious setback, which shows us how much it costs to win rights and how easy it is to go back on those rights," he lamented. And he recalled that the PP keeps alive its appeal against the abortion law before the Constitutional Court. Therefore, Sánchez demanded to return their "maximum legitimacy" to the TC and the CGPJ, so that they do not continue to be hostages of the "spurious interests" of the PP.
