The president of Congress, Francina Armengol, has dedicated a good part of her speech at the Solemn Opening Session of the XV Legislature to vindicating the legitimacy of the coalition government – formed by PSOE and Sumar – shielding it from those who “distort reality or question important democratic values ??from the tension and opacity of the dispute”.
“The formation of the new Government has required time, dialogue, negotiation and decision-making. The decision of this parliamentary majority is legitimate and emanates from the will of the citizens exercised on July 23,” Armengol emphasized to underline his message.
The third authority of the State has appealed to the need to strive to “keep our democracy intact” against those who want to “distort reality or question important democratic values, from the opacity of the dispute.” Something that, as he has warned, “will only increase society’s disaffection towards institutions.”
And, in the same way, he has opted for understanding in a time of governments without absolute majorities: “Let us show that we know how to put ourselves in the other’s place,” he noted.
The president of Congress, who has reviewed the situation in Spain when going through a pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, has also taken advantage of her intervention in the Lower House to, before the group of deputies and senators, also talk about the “very difficult tragedy” of the conflict between Israel and Palestine that outlines a “complex situation” in the Middle East.
Entering fully into an issue that, in addition to criticism from the opposition, generates some internal disputes within the Executive, the socialist has recalled the words of the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, when a few days ago he declared that “in anywhere, an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
Among the “challenges” that Parliament must face in the recently begun legislature, Armengol has highlighted “the fight for equality between women and men.” And after recalling the latest cases of gender violence recorded, he urged society to “end this barbarism. 53 women murdered so far this year at the hands of their partners or ex-partners and two victims of vicarious violence. We must do more “Much more,” Armengol asked.
“We must also continue working for the elimination of inequalities and the fair redistribution of wealth, giving more coverage to the most unprotected groups, expanding rights, increasing pensions and salaries, generating more and better employment in a context of modernization and digitalization of our economy,” Armengol added in his speech.
