“Young people must be at the center of our priorities”, said Pedro Sánchez yesterday. And youth is already, in fact, one of his priorities in this 28-M campaign, as evidenced by his successive announcements to increase the public housing stock at an affordable price to facilitate the emancipation of young people, increase investment to strengthen vocational training and reduce youth unemployment, and strengthen public education to lower school dropout rates.
Sánchez added another relevant announcement yesterday, during the rally he led in Murcia, to make it easier for young people, between 18 and 30 years old, to travel this summer in Europe and also in Spain. An initiative, he stressed, that will also serve to promote the tourism and cultural sector. And he advanced that the Council of Ministers next Tuesday will approve a 50% discount on the Interrail, so that thousands of young people aged 18 to 30 can travel this summer in Europe, between June 15 and September
In addition, to make it easier for young people to also travel in Spain, he added that a 90% discount will be applied to trains and buses that depend on the State and 50% to high-speed trains, for this age range during this summer. “We will make a Spanish Interrail!” announced Sánchez to great applause in Murcia, a community that is now an impregnable stronghold of the Popular Party and where the PSOE has not governed for 28 years.
The president emphasized that in this way the Central Government will help young people, but also the tourism and cultural sector, promoting thousands of national destinations, and will promote the development of rural Spain. In the Executive, for now, they are not advancing the budget that will require the launch of these new initiatives, pending approval by the Council of Ministers.
“This is a Government that is committed to young people, with their employment, their education, their training, their housing, and also with the impulse for them to get to know their country and, by the way, we make the economy”, he underline Sanchez. “This is a Government committed to the younger generations, because they deserve it after this pandemic that we have suffered and that we are already starting to put behind us for good”, he assured, after the WHO certified the end of the pandemic emergency Spain is the second most visited country in the world, but it is full of treasures unknown to many Spaniards, they argue in Moncloa.
“Our management is the best guarantee to win the elections on May 28”, warned Sánchez. “Politics must speak much more clearly and directly to our young people, and make policies for young people”, he insisted. “And we continue to fight so that our young people have the best training, the best employment and decent housing”, proclaimed Sánchez in a packed Prince of Asturias pavilion, in front of 4,200 supporters according to the organization. The PSOE contrasted the success of the call with the “sting” they attributed to Alberto Núñez Feijóo in this same precinct on April 22. And this is how the socialist candidate for the presidency of Murcia, Pepe Vélez, emphasized it, to revive his electoral expectations: “The PP is in low hours – he assured – and was not able to fill this pavilion”.
“This is a full hall; the other day with Feijóo and López Miras was an empty pavilion”, he celebrated.
