"Stability in the face of radicalism and progress in the face of retrogression". These will be the keys that will animate the government program that Pedro Sánchez will present this afternoon before the plenary session of Congress, in his inauguration speech, in front of some right-wing parties on a war footing before his imminent re-election.
La Moncloa highlights that the leader of the PSOE, during his speech, will make "a fiery defense of democracy, the Constitution and the action developed by the Government in this legislature".
It will be "a very political and very powerful speech", they assure Sánchez's team, in which he will deploy "a complete and comprehensive country project". A project that, as he always says, responds to the political plurality and territorial diversity of Spain, and that results in the absolute parliamentary majority of 179 seats that will vote tomorrow in favor of his investiture. In the Executive they point out that Sánchez is running for re-election with the endorsement of 12.6 million voters, according to the result of the general elections of July 23.
With this endorsement, they emphasize that Sánchez is facing "a serious investiture", not like the one played at the end of September by the leader of the Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had no supporters.
Sánchez arrives at the appointment with the agreements closed for his investiture. In the intervention he will show his "respect for Parliament and society as a whole", and will defend the legitimacy of the 179 deputies elected by the citizens who will endorse their re-election. As much as the right-wingers call this new parliamentary majority illegitimate, and even illegal.
The leader of the PSOE will thus request the confidence of Congress, and by extension of the public, to deploy a "complete country program". First of all, he will claim his government management in the last four years, with "social and rights advances". "We have fulfilled our word", emphasize the Moncloa. Secondly, he will explain all the agreements agreed, "black on white", with Sumar, to form a new coalition government, and with the rest of the parliamentary groups that will endorse his investiture and the start of the legislature.
Among these agreements, the amnesty law proposal, registered this Tuesday alone by the PSOE, negotiated with Junts and ERC, will stand out, which in turn will have the support for its processing and approval of an absolute majority of 178 seats . The leader of the PSOE will thus defend in his speech this amnesty for those accused of the process, which guarantees his investiture, but has the fierce opposition of the right and causes a great social controversy.
Sánchez will justify his investiture agreements, they point out in Moncloa, as opposed to the pacts signed by the PP and the extreme right of Vox to govern in autonomous communities and town councils.
The socialist candidate for re-election will also claim in the speech the political and institutional stability of these last four years of mandate. Despite the uncertainty with which the previous legislature began, the first coalition government since the Republic managed to approve three consecutive general State budgets and more than 200 laws.
"We end the legislature leaving a better country than we found it", they emphasize in Moncloa.
And political and institutional stability will be what Sánchez will also offer for the next four years, despite the fact that the outlook for the new legislature is equally uncertain. And very high voltage.
In his speech, the leader of the PSOE will use "future, hope, projection, desire and determination to keep moving forward". Four more years, insist Moncloa.
The forces and security forces of the State keep the perimeter of Congress armored, because if the investiture debate will be rough in the chamber, strong protests are also expected at the doors, against the amnesty law and against the same Sánchez's investiture. In this sense, the spokeswoman for the acting central government, Isabel Rodríguez, yesterday condemned the "escalation of violence" that is taking place in protest against the amnesty and the imminent investiture of Sánchez.
"Once the legal text is known, many will have run out of arguments", Rodríguez warned, however. "The problem is no longer a law that is undoubtedly flawless from a legal point of view and perfectly framed in our Constitution, but that they do not accept the parliamentary majority that supports it. And this is nothing more and nothing less than democracy", he stressed.
"The less arguments, the more insults. The more frustration, the more violence and the more decibels. But the responsibility of those who believe in democracy is debate, dialogue and accepting the rules of the game", defended the spokeswoman of the Spanish Government.
Sánchez met his current Council of Ministers for the last time yesterday, with the expectation that, once he wins the investiture tomorrow, he will take possession of the position and announce the composition of the new government, next Tuesday the first meeting will already be held newly constituted executive.
