At a time when the PP charges against the Spanish Government for the Amnesty law and the Koldo case, Pedro Sánchez seeks to change the subject and go on the offensive by putting a weighty political agenda on the table. Yesterday, the president announced two forceful measures that his Government intends to address in the coming months: the recognition of the Palestinian State by Spain and, secondly, the push for a bill to abolish prostitution.
Sánchez announced these measures at an event honoring José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his electoral victory in 2004. The appointment took place in Bilbao to support Eneko Andueza’s candidacy for lehendakari in the elections of April 21 and, likewise, to remember Zapatero’s contribution to the end of ETA, something that the former president himself emphasized as the milestone he remembers most of his two mandates. “No one will take from history that with a socialist lehendakari and a socialist president, the violence of ETA was put to an end,” the former president stressed.
In this context, Sánchez defended that it is time to close the debate on the Amnesty law and “advance on the path of reconciliation and harmony to focus on the real problems of our time”. “I want to tell those who have doubts about the Amnesty law to trust it, since with the pardons and with the law we are making a stronger Spanish democracy and, therefore, a stronger Spain”, he indicated.
Among the urgent problems to be addressed, Sánchez looked at the international sphere and, like Zapatero, referred to the bombings in Gaza and established a position that will lead to queues in the coming months. “In this legislature I will propose to the General Courts the recognition of the Palestinian State by Spain. For moral conviction, because it is a just cause and because it is the only way for two states, Israel and Palestine, to coexist and coexist in peace”, he pointed out.
Paying attention to current Spanish politics, Sánchez did not avoid the issue of corruption, although he closed the issue with a short statement: “There is no good corruption and bad corruption. There are parties that shield, protect and institutionalize corruption, and others, like the PSOE, that cut it to pieces”.
Apart from that, the act became a vindication of the “social advances” achieved during the two mandates of the Zapatero government, from marriage between people of the same sex to laws such as Dependency or Equality, and in a defense of the management of the current Executive. “The real revolution is the one published in the Official State Gazette”, he pointed out, before bragging about the data related to the number of contributors or the increase in the minimum wage.
The President of the Spanish Government, like Zapatero and Andueza, also sent some messages to the PP, in which they questioned their opposition work and referred to “the lies and infamy” of the government of José María Aznar, 20 years ago, after 11-M. “The founding act of the furious right that we are living in Spain was the great lie of 11-M”, indicated Sánchez.
