Around two thousand people, militants, sympathizers and Valencian politicians have gathered today at the PSPV-PSOE headquarters in the city of Valencia to ask the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to continue in his position and have thus conveyed their support and comprehension.
The president will make a decision about his future in a few hours, and this weekend, both in Madrid and in different Spanish cities, socialism has supported Sánchez in the face of an “infamous” attack from the right and the extreme right.
To show this “fed up” people have gathered in a festive atmosphere and have sung songs such as Quédate by Quevedo and Bizarrap, Zorra by Nebulosa or Pedro by Raffaella Carrá.
With slogans like “Pedro, don’t give up”; “Pedro, stay”; “Here we are” or “Valencians with Pedro”, hundreds of people have gathered in a festive atmosphere in front of the PSPV-PSOE headquarters on Calle Hospital in the city of Valencia.
The deputy secretary general of the PSPV, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, has pointed out that today “we have joined civil society, militancy and socialist sympathizers” to convey that “civil society is fed up” with the fact that politics has become a “unbreathable quagmire and a crusher of people descends.”
“Today it is about defending democracy to tell Pedro to continue, to move forward in the face of a right that patrimonializes power, we who want to defend institutions and democracy,” stated the socialist representative.
The right, Bielsa added, “always uses the same mechanisms: delegitimization and dehumanization of adversaries and we are fed up.” “We need politics to be useful for people,” he noted.
The deputy secretary has asked the president of the Government to “continue” because “we are united and strong defending change in Spanish politics so that society sees that we are a party that works for the people and not against rights and freedoms as the right does.” and the extreme right”.
For her part, the regional representative Mercedes Caballero has indicated that in her capacity as a socialist militant she has gathered today to ask Sánchez “not to resign, to remain president of the Government because the right and the extreme right cannot win in the streets with hoaxes and infamies what they lost at the polls”.
Sandra Gómez, general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE in the city of València, has pointed out that today’s rally has dramatized the difference between “the right that demonstrates at the doors of political parties to insult, twitch and hit dolls that pretend to be politicians” and the socialist party that “we demonstrate in favor of ethics and politics and coexistence and respect”, as well as “the limits of fair play”.
We demonstrate, Gómez added, “not so that a politician leaves but so that our general secretary stays” and to “say enough to this campaign of hoaxes and lies” that “we have suffered in this community like the president or myself. “. He would tell Sánchez, the general secretary has asserted, that “he stay, that it is worth it” and that she see the “hundreds of thousands of people who are demonstrating to tell him to stay.”
The Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has said for her part that “today more than ever democracy is at stake” and “we need collective reflection by all democrats, because not everything goes in politics.”
