“Condemning the vile terrorist attacks by a terrorist group like Hamas, and at the same time condemning the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, is not a question of political parties, nor of ideology, it is a question of humanity,” Pedro Sánchez has claimed. . Once re-elected President of the Government, and after his tour of the Middle East, the leader of the PSOE took a warm bath this Sunday with the socialist masses, before nearly 10,000 supporters according to the organization, in an act of closing ranks with the former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, at the Ifema in Madrid, in which he reaffirmed his position on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, despite the new diplomatic clash registered with the Prime Minister of the Jewish State, Beniamin Netanyahu, and the criticism of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Sánchez has addressed, in this sense, Feijóo. “I know that it is impossible to ask this opposition, which opposes everything and at all times, which is always in the no, even when they are not right or the Government of Spain is right,” he said. “I am not going to ask you to be with the Government, but I am going to demand that you be with human rights, which is what we are defending from the Government of Spain,” claimed the Chief Executive.
The leader of the PSOE has also defended in this massive event, together with Zapatero, the future amnesty law for those prosecuted for the independence process in Catalonia, thanks to which he has achieved the support of Junts and ERC for his new investiture as president, despite the harsh offensive deployed by the PP and the far-right Vox. The right, he has assured, are protesting “in the face of a risk that is not such, because Spain is not going to break up,” he has stated.
"With this transcendent decision of Spanish democracy such as the approval of an amnesty law, even those who mobilize against it will benefit, because they will live in a more cohesive country, with more coexistence and more united than never”, Sánchez wanted to guarantee, in the face of this controversial legislative initiative of the PSOE.
Zapatero, in turn, has highlighted the “strength, decency and dignity” of Sánchez at the head of the PSOE and the newly formed progressive coalition government. The former president has thus endorsed his position regarding the conflict between Israel and Palestine. “They also accused me of supporting terrorism when I withdrew troops from Iraq, but we were right, as you are now,” he told Sánchez. “It is a worthy socialist leader to say clearly that the right to defense can never include innocent victims, children and civilians, never, anywhere, at any time in history and in any country. Never! “Killing is just killing, it is not defending anything!” the former president cried, amidst loud applause, to defend the “act of bravery and commitment” of the current head of the Executive.
The former president of the Government has also defended the amnesty law, despite the fact that the right considers it unconstitutional. “Everything they don't like is unconstitutional,” Zapatero replied, in reference to a PP that, he recalled, also appealed to the Constitutional Court against its laws on homosexual marriage and voluntary termination of pregnancy. “It is a law that looks to the future, to a strong Spain, to those of us who think in one way or another sharing Catalonia. That is what the amnesty law will help with,” he said.
Zapatero has once again claimed that under his government ETA's terrorism came to an end. And he has pointed out that "a day will come, it will not take many years, when a socialist leader will be able to say, with the same force that I have said, that under a government of Pedro Sánchez an amnesty law was approved that opened the door to stability, normalization, coexistence in Catalonia and a better, more recognized, more integrated, more cohesive Spain.”
“Nothing is going to be broken, Spain is going to be more united, and Spain with Catalonia, and Catalonia with each other,” the former president stressed.
Sánchez has taken a comforting bath with the socialist masses, together with former president Zapatero, who has been singularly vindicated in the event, the 17 socialist ministers of the new government, also many former ministers, the leaders of Moncloa, Ferraz and the group socialist parliamentarian, and some territorial leaders of the PSOE. The President of the Government thus wanted to star this Sunday in an act of tribute to the PSOE itself and its houses in the town, which are being vandalized by the extreme right in view of his re-election and his commitment to the amnesty law, and also to thank the more than 170,000 socialist members, who overwhelmingly approved their investiture pacts, even before knowing them, in the consultation in which the socialist militancy was called.
The event, held at the Ifema in Madrid before some 10,000 supporters - to whom the organization distributed flags of Spain, the European Union and the PSOE -, with more than 200 buses arriving from all over Spain, has also served to honor the former president Zapatero, who, unlike Felipe González and other patriarchs of the socialist old guard, was deeply involved in the last electoral campaign of the PSOE that managed, against all odds, to prevent the planned government of the PP and Vox in Spain. “The companion who is always there through thick and thin,” highlighted the presenter of the event. “You have surely contributed a lot to those million more votes that we got in the general elections,” said the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona.
The president of the PSOE has also announced that in the last month and a half, since the PP mobilizations began in the streets, and the attacks by the extreme right against socialist town houses, together with the harassment of the federal headquarters of Ferraz, a A total of 1,440 people have joined the party. “They can deface the walls of our headquarters, they can write insults and threats there, but while some do that, we socialists continue writing the future of Spain in the Official State Gazette,” Narbona warned.
