Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz showed their best smiles and gestures of great complicity yesterday when they signed the programmatic agreement reached between the PSOE and Sumar to try to convey the image that a progressive government coalition between both formations will be more cohesive and will not suffer. as many internal dissensions as the current one between the socialists and Unidas Podemos.
“This time, we are going to do even better,” said Sánchez. “We are going to govern better,” Díaz confirmed in the event that both participated in at the Reina Sofía Museum in the presence of a good part of the members of the current acting Executive... and with the noted absence of the Podemos ministers, Ione Belarra and Irene Montero.
“Spain is not going to stop at anything or anyone,” Sánchez proclaimed. The PSOE leader thus wanted to guarantee that there will be four more years of progressive government, despite the fact that his re-election as head of the Executive still depends on him achieving a parliamentary majority with the support of ERC, Junts, Bildu, PNV and BNG, and despite that a date for the investiture has not yet been set.
Sánchez highlighted that the current progressive coalition Executive, established in 2019 for the first time in democracy, “was given two days” to live, but that it managed to approve three consecutive general state budgets and more than 200 laws with an absolute majority. “And we are going to be there for four more years!”, assured the socialist leader, despite not yet having guaranteed the support, particularly, of the Catalan independence movement.
“A lot has been done in these four years, but there is still a lot to do,” Sánchez warned. “What has been done is not enough, there are still many injustices to be resolved,” he insisted.
And for this reason, he committed to “strengthen the path of progress and coexistence” in Spain, without any express mention of the political conflict in Catalonia, nor does it appear in the programmatic agreement signed between the PSOE and Sumar, which includes up to 230 important initiatives. social, fiscal and labor.
Sánchez, in any case, highlighted that with this coalition pact he has the will to offer “stability, coexistence and progress to Spain during the next four years.” “We have the project, the enthusiasm, the ideas and the teams to advance more and faster, in addition to the experience of cooperating in a coalition government,” highlighted the socialist leader.
Díaz, who spoke before the president, explained that the agreement “is based on the deep conviction that our only heritage is the things we do to make our time and our land better,” and, therefore, “it is a government agreement that "It was born with the same convictions: it serves to serve, its only meaning is to improve the lives of Spaniards, to make us more equal and, therefore, to make us more free."
Díaz stopped at the disputed concept: “Freedom is not every man for himself, we have shown it in a pandemic; Freedom is protecting people, as we did in a pandemic; “Freedom is not the jungle, it is the rights that guarantee it.”
The acting vice president – “the vice president”, Sánchez even called her at one point during her speech – outlined in detail the contents of the agreement on labor, fiscal, climate and social matters, for which she expressly thanked the captains of the negotiating teams, Nacho Álvarez and María Jesús Montero.
And he highlighted that the agreed document applies the voter's mandate: “The Spaniards did not vote only to prevent Feijóo from being president and Abascal vice president; “They voted to support public policies based on social justice of the last legislature, to continue the path of social progress and have a new territorial agreement.”
The Spaniards voted on 23-J, Díaz assured, “to be happier and to be more free.”
