The number one of the commons, Jéssica Albiach, urged the PSOE this Monday to “stop dragging its feet” and urged it to “end lawfare now.” “Now is the time,” she said at a press conference two hours after the announcement of the continuity of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and also after the reaction of the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz.
The candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia from Comuns Sumar, advocated repealing the so-called gag law and “renewing the leadership of the judiciary without agreeing with the right, which in Spain has anti-democratic tics.”
Albiach mixed a message of “understanding” to Pedro Sánchez with criticism: “Progressive citizens do not deserve what they have gone through these five days with the instability and uncertainty that the PSOE has generated.” “Lawfare is not a new thing and we regret that the PSOE has not done anything until it has personally touched the president,” he added, recalling the cases of some independence supporters, Mónica Oltra, Ada Colau, Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero.
In this sense, he acknowledged that after Sánchez’s decision there are “many people relieved” but it was unfortunate that the president appeared in the morning “without launching any proposal.” Albiach highlighted that “the attack that Pedro Sánchez receives is not personal, it is collective. It is against the model that the privileged do not want.”
In campaign key for the Catalan elections, the candidate reiterated that her party is “the only guarantee of going on the offensive” against the right and the extreme right and that Catalonia has a “progressive government that advances with ambition and defends democracy ”.
In the afternoon, Albiach visited Manresa to present the commons’ proposals for central Catalonia. There he praised the Bages cooperatives. For his part, the number five of the candidacy, David Cid, assured that “ERC has been incapable of making laws and transforming the country.”
Former deputy Jaume Asens, the commons’ option for the European elections, also spoke at the event: “Catalonia deserves a government like that of Barcelona, ??which has broken relations with the state of Israel,” he said.
