“The negotiations are progressing in a reasonable manner,” revealed the spokesperson for the PSOE, the acting minister Pilar Alegría, after the meeting of the Ferraz executive chaired by Pedro Sánchez this Monday, about the ongoing conversations to achieve his re-election as President of the goverment.
Pilar Alegría has thus defended the possibility of articulating “an alternative”, to guarantee four more years of progressive government, against a Popular Party that, according to her criticism, relies on the extreme right of Vox to “stir up the noise, the hatred and tension.”
“This time yes,” the socialist leader highlighted about the “royal investiture” that Sánchez is negotiating, after the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “It is progressing adequately,” sources from the socialist executive corroborate.
The negotiations for the investiture of the leader of the PSOE are advancing, therefore, without the demonstration organized last Sunday in Barcelona by the Catalan Civil Society, in which the leaders of the PP and Vox met again to protest against the amnesty, being able to stop nothing. In fact, Pilar Alegría has highlighted that this demonstration “did not meet expectations”, being “quite less numerous” than on other occasions.
The spokesperson for the PSOE executive, in any case, has regretted “the attempt to politicize” this demonstration by the PP and Vox. And she has alleged that this protest did not respond to the majority sentiment of the citizens, and even less so of the Catalans, after the electoral support that Salvador Illa's PSC adds in each appointment with the polls.
Alegría has insisted on not yet establishing the position of the PSOE regarding a possible amnesty for those prosecuted for the process, but has highlighted that this measure of grace is not only defended by the seven deputies of the party led by Carles Puigdemont, as the right denounces, but up to “57 deputies” of Congress, he has specified, in reference to the seats that the groups of Sumar, Esquerra, Junts, EH Bildu, the PNV and the BNG have in total. If the 121 deputies of the Socialist Group are added to all of them, the result is an absolute majority of 178 seats.
“We will not approve anything that is not constitutional, we have never done so,” Pilar Alegría has warned in any case, in reference to a possible amnesty.
