Before the senior staff of the Spanish business community, at the event in which he presented his priorities for the six-month period of the current presidency of the European Union, at the CEOE headquarters in Madrid, Pedro Sánchez wanted to guarantee this Friday that, “ If the investiture underway does not prosper, as even the candidate himself already takes for granted,” in reference to Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s turn, “and if I receive the order from the head of state, I will dedicate myself body and soul to achieving a authentic investiture, and not waste time on empty gestures.”
“I will dedicate myself to dialogue with the rest of the political forces, and also with civil society, to build alliances and launch a positive political project,” said the acting head of the Executive. “A project of progress and coexistence, which guarantees the stability of the country, and which is fully consistent with the letter and spirit of our Constitution. A project, consequently, conciliatory. “Based on our values, on our principles, on the needs and aspirations of the social majority,” stressed the leader of the PSOE.
These words from Sánchez have, in any case, multiple recipients. On the one hand, the right, at the same time as José María Aznar and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, denounce, once again, the breakup of Spain and the bankruptcy of the Constitution. On the other hand, the veteran former socialist leaders who, with Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra at the helm, also warn against the direction of the PSOE leader and also see the Magna Carta in danger. And finally, the Catalan independence movement, after Junts and ERC have demanded an amnesty law for those prosecuted by the process to facilitate his new investiture as President of the Government.
“A project – Sánchez continued proposing – that will look to the coming months, but that also has the ambition to look at and respond to the challenges we face in the coming decades. And that he will assume it in a coherent strategy, which has been endorsed by the European Commission, also by academics, and more recently at the polls. A true project for Spain to continue moving forward and not go back to dark times.” It is worth remembering, in this regard, that in the general elections on July 23, which the Popular Party won, the PSOE nevertheless added one million more votes than in the last election in 2019.
“We have no time to lose, time is money,” Sánchez warned before the business representatives gathered at the event, in which he took the opportunity to launch a harsh reproach against Alberto Núñez Feijóo for the long hiatus opened until, in order to month, faces an investiture as President of the Government doomed in advance to failure because the leader of the Popular Party does not have the necessary parliamentary support. “The enormous waste of time of a candidate who, knowing his inability to build a parliamentary majority in Congress, has subjected the country to a period of so much paralysis and so much blockade, is poorly understood,” Sánchez reproached Feijóo.
Feijóo, Sánchez has assured, “seems more determined to prevent another investiture than to achieve his own.” “To be more exact: he completely ignores his investiture and concentrates on avoiding any other,” highlighted the acting head of the Executive.
Sánchez has reiterated his respect for the deadlines and procedures of democracy, following the King’s assignment to Feijóo to face his investiture. “But this way of acting is harmful to our society. The time does not belong to this or that candidate, the time belongs to all Spaniards, Spain has very important and very urgent things to resolve, and it does not have to waste time capriciously,” he reproached the leader of the PP.
