The PSOE convention will defend its strategy with the independence movement

The resolution that will be approved this weekend by the political convention of the PSOE that Pedro Sánchez meets in A Coruña, and to which La Vanguardia has had access, defines Spain as "a project of democratic coexistence between people with different ideas, feelings and identities.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
18 January 2024 Thursday 09:21
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The PSOE convention will defend its strategy with the independence movement

The resolution that will be approved this weekend by the political convention of the PSOE that Pedro Sánchez meets in A Coruña, and to which La Vanguardia has had access, defines Spain as "a project of democratic coexistence between people with different ideas, feelings and identities." People who “share a common objective of guaranteeing human rights, cultures, traditions, languages ​​and institutions of the country,” as proclaimed in the 1978 Constitution.

This presentation endorses the amnesty for those accused of the process and the agreements with the independence groups against which former president Felipe González has just reiterated his frontal opposition, who will not attend this PSOE conclave in which former president José Luis will intervene today Rodríguez Zapatero.

The document, which defends that Sánchez's commitment to coexistence was "key in redirecting the situation and reducing the degree of social tension that led to the celebration of two illegal endorsements" in Catalonia, highlights the granting of pardons to the independence leaders condemned by the process, “with tangible and recognized results inside and outside our borders.” “The pardons worked,” the text emphasizes.

“With that endorsement, with that experience, we now undertake the processing of the Amnesty law. A fully constitutional norm that will continue to contribute to the reunion and to closing the still open wounds of a scenario that we should never have reached,” highlights the PSOE presentation.

The document warns that in Congress “there is a large parliamentary majority, greater than that necessary for the approval of this measure, which defends and promotes it.” “This majority – he assures – is a reflection of the plurality and political diversity of present-day Spain. "Of the need to advance in dialogue, between everyone, against those who entrench themselves in denying solutions to continue living politically from the conflict."

The PP and Vox, according to the document, promote “social tension and tension” in Spain, to feed their electoral expectations. “The right needs discord,” he denounces. And it presents the PSOE as a “guarantee of coexistence and legality, of constitutional principles and values.”

The section on democratic coexistence will be debated tomorrow in a forum moderated by MEP Laura Ballarín, from the PSC, and in which the president of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, and the leader of the Basque socialists, and candidate for lehendakari, Eneko Andueza, will intervene. .

In any case, the two socialist territorial leaders most critical of the amnesty and the agreements with the Catalan and Basque independentists will not attend the PSOE political convention: the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, excused their attendance. for a trip to China, while the leader of the socialists of Aragon, Javier Lambán, will not attend due to health problems. Both absences will allow the presentation to be ratified, especially with regard to the amnesty, without dissenting voices.

Before Sánchez himself opens this political convention on Sunday – together with the vice-secretariat general of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, and the socialist candidate for the presidency of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro –, the federal committee of the party to ratify the remodeling and expansion of the Ferraz executive.

Sánchez will also add the third vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, to the leadership of the PSOE. In this way, Ferraz's executive will have ten ministers: in addition to Montero and Ribera, Félix Bolaños, Óscar Puente, Jordi Hereu, Pilar Alegría, Isabel Rodríguez, Ana Redondo, Diana Morant and Elma Saiz.

Already reintegrated into Sánchez's team in Moncloa, one of his first loyalists, Paco Salazar, will also return to the federal executive of the PSOE as the new secretary of research and analysis of training.