“Dialogue, generosity and forgiveness.” This is the roadmap that Pedro Sánchez has proposed, during his initial speech in the investiture debate, to continue defusing the political conflict in Catalonia during the next legislature. With a significant measure, he confirmed, to “advance on the path of reunion.” “In the name of Spain, in the interest of Spain and in defense of harmony between Spaniards, we are going to grant an amnesty to the people prosecuted for the process,” stressed the socialist candidate for re-election as President of the Government, after The PSOE registered this controversial legislative initiative in Congress last Monday.
“Catalonia is ready for a total reunion and we have to have the courage to take a step forward,” Sánchez justified. And, despite the “many fuss” that he has reproached the right-wing, he has stated: “The amnesty that we propose is perfectly legal and in accordance with the Constitution.”
The leader of the PSOE has justified his approach to Catalonia: “In discord there can be no prosperity.” “We are going to promote coexistence and forgiveness, to bet on a future of reconciliation and harmony,” he insisted. “Dialogue, understanding and forgiveness” is the formula that he has defended, now with an amnesty just like he did in the previous legislature with the pardons for imprisoned independence leaders, in the face of the “imposition and social tension” that he has attributed to the right. Sánchez, however, recalled that “the PP recipe led to disaster” in 2017.
Sánchez has put “the reunion before revenge.” And he has reiterated that his commitment to dialogue and agreement with the pro-independence groups in Catalonia is working. Faced with the protest of the PP bench, he replied: “Perhaps they think that coexistence was watching Barcelona burn. I do not believe it”.
“It’s time to make a virtue of necessity,” he once again acknowledged regarding the amnesty law, as he already did before the federal committee of the PSOE. Because, in addition to guaranteeing his investiture, this new measure of grace will serve “to consolidate the progress made in these four years and continue advancing along the path of coexistence and progress.”
And despite the fact that the right puts its hands on its head, the leader of the PSOE has warned: “The problem of the PP is not the amnesty, it is that it does not accept the electoral result of last July 23.” “The amnesty matters little to the reactionary right,” he said. What they cannot accept, he has insisted, is that he will continue to be the President of the Government. However, Sánchez has demanded “minimum responsibility” from the PP, and has demanded “sanity” from Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party: “They cannot sow discord again and stoke the fire of hatred.”
“The amnesty is going to be approved with light and stenographers, with all the guarantees and with an absolute majority,” the socialist candidate for reelection concluded in this regard.
“We have to choose, we must choose,” Pedro Sánchez stated in his speech at the investiture debate. “Either Spain continues to advance, or Spain regresses,” said the leader of the PSOE. This is the dilemma that will be resolved tomorrow in the Congress vote for his re-election as President of the Government, for which he already has an absolute majority. “We have to choose a path,” he insisted. During his speech, he announced free public transportation for minors, young people and the unemployed and that the Executive wants to extend the VAT reduction on food until June, among other measures.
Sánchez has made a statement in defense of democracy and the Constitution. “There is only democracy within the Constitution, outside its rules there is only imposition and whim,” he warned, in the face of the harsh offensive from the right that, precisely, accuses him of undermining the foundations of democracy and the Magna Carta.
The socialist candidate for the investiture has proclaimed, in this sense, that as long as he remains president of the Government, “all the strength of the State will be dedicated to defending democratic values”, despite the “propagation of resentment and hatred” that he has reproached. to the right. “We are not going to take a step back,” he assured.
The leader of the PSOE has appealed to stop the move, with his investiture, to the “reactionary and retrograde right” that he has attributed to both the Popular Party and the far-right of Vox. “We are as Spanish as you, we are no less Spanish than you,” he warned the right-wing bench.
“We have to choose if we want to continue moving forward or if we want to support the prophets of hate who want to lock women in kitchens, LGTBI people in closets and migrants in refugee camps,” he stated.
The leader of the PSOE faces the debate this Wednesday for his new investiture as President of the Government with the agreements already closed so that an absolute majority of 179 seats endorses his re-election, in the first vote that will take place tomorrow in Congress. The yes to Sánchez bloc, according to the agreements reached, will be made up of the socialist group (121 deputies), Sumar (31), Esquerra Republicana (7), Junts per Catalunya (7), Eh Bildu (6), the PNV (5 ), the BNG (1) and the Canarian Coalition (1). The bloc of no to the socialist candidate will instead add only 171 seats in the political space of the right: those of the Popular Party (137), the far-right Vox (33) and the Navarro People’s Union (1).