"If the polls have shown us anything in these last general elections, it is that whoever wants to aspire to govern Spain must understand and assume two things, because this is the reality of Spain: political pluralism and territorial diversity". These are the credentials with which Pedro Sánchez stated yesterday that he will run for re-election. The same ones that closed the doors, in his opinion, to the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
A day before the PP and Vox meet again today in the street to protest against Sánchez and against the amnesty for those accused of the process, in the demonstration called by Societat Civil Catalana in Barcelona, the leader of the PSOE demanded "prudence and measure" to the Spanish right.
"Neither Spain collapses, nor Spain breaks up, nor Spain disappears", retorted Sánchez during the rally he led in Granada and in which, once again, the Andalusian socialists closed very close ranks so that their negotiations would culminate successfully with Catalan independence and article a majority of investiture and legislature. "There will be a progressive government that will continue to advance rights and freedoms, and build coexistence within the framework of the Constitution", he assured.
"In the face of the prophets of the apocalypse, Spain coexists, advances, and counts more on the international and European stage", he said amid applause from the Andalusian socialist militancy and leadership.
Sánchez thus tried to rebut the alarms of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Santiago Abascal, who will probably be heard again today at the protest in Barcelona. But you can't think that Spain is sinking, he warned, in the same week that the community institutions approved another injection of 93,000 million euros for reindustrialization, job creation and strengthening of the welfare state in country Nor can it be said that Spain is isolated, he insisted, after precisely Granada hosted "successfully" the summits of the European Political Community and the European Council. Spain is not discredited in the world either, he added, given that it will host the 2030 World Cup. Nor is Spain broken, since it is in Moncloa, he assured, "each and every one of Spain's territories has complied with the Constitution". The only thing that violates the Magna Carta, he concluded, is the PP, to which he once again attributed the already eternal blockage of the renewal of the General Council of the Judicial Power.
"I know it's very hard, because look they gave everything", Sánchez quipped about the last general elections. "I know that they are very frustrated by the failed investiture of Feijóo. But in a democracy you have to know how to win and lose, and above all you always have to respect the opponent and respect the intelligence of the citizens", he warned the right-wing.
The leader of the PSOE highlighted that in the general elections of July 23, "the citizens did not elect Feijóo president of the Government or Abascal vice president of the Central Government". On 23-J, he added, "the citizens did not vote because we will repeat the general elections in January next year". Therefore, he committed "to work for four more years of progress and coexistence, within the framework of the Constitution".
Without uttering the word amnesty again, as he did the day before, precisely in the presence of Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the highest representatives of the EU, Sánchez remarked that the only thing that really "breaks equality between Spaniards" are the pacts of the right and the ultra-right in communities and town councils. "Either they govern with Vox, or they govern like Vox", he criticized, referring to the absolute majority enjoyed by Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla in Andalusia.
As already happened in the last meetings that he starred in Seville and Málaga, the Andalusian socialists staged their support for Sánchez before the negotiations for his investiture. "Get out and forward the axes, Pedro!", wished, on behalf of all, the leader of the PSOE of Granada, Pepe Entrena. And ex-vice president Carmen Calvo also certified it like this: "From this powerful land and from beloved Catalonia, you will have all the wind in your favor to do what you have to do for your country in the next four years. It will be from there and from here!", he exclaimed.
