“I have more desire than ever, more strength than ever and more arguments than ever for there to be four more years of progressive government, of social advances and rights and coexistence in our country!” Pedro Sánchez cried at the PSOE rally. which he carried out this Saturday in the Sevillian town of La Rinconada, and where he has received the express and enthusiastic support of Andalusian socialism in the face of the negotiations that he will now lead to achieve his investiture, especially with the Catalan independence movement. “Total mobilization”, they celebrated in the leadership of the PSOE, in an event that brought together 3,000 supporters, according to the organization.
The acting head of the Executive has contrasted the failed investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, which was certified the day before in Congress, with what he himself is preparing to address once the King, as planned, entrusts it to him next Tuesday . Sánchez has criticized that the leader of the Popular Party claimed that he could be President of the Government, “but that he does not want to.” “He is so used to lying to everyone, that he lies to himself, but there he is,” I reproached him. “We socialists do want, and we are going to work for a real investiture, not a false investiture, so that there is a progressive government, with four more years of social progress and rights for the Spanish people, and four more years of coexistence and harmony! “, Has promised.
Given the complex negotiation underway with Junts and Esquerra to be able to articulate a majority that supports his investiture, with a possible amnesty for those prosecuted for the process under discussion, but which he has not mentioned at any time, Sánchez has begun to do pedagogy among his own ranks, very sensitive to this issue precisely in a territory like Andalusia, to refute the offensive of the right and its “mantra” that “Spain breaks and sinks.” “Spain is not broken nor is the Constitution broken,” the leader of the PSOE defended.
“When Spain was on the verge of breaking up, it was with a PP government, with Mariano Rajoy at the helm, and with a unilateral declaration of independence in the Parliament of Catalonia,” Sánchez warned. “Today in Spain there is more coexistence and more harmony thanks to the dialogue of the progressive coalition government,” she assured.
“We do not distribute constitutionalism cards, we are part of the writing and elaboration of the Constitution,” said Sánchez. And he has stressed that “we comply with the Constitution every day of the year and each and every one of its articles”, something that, he regretted, the PP does not do.
The socialist leader has insisted that, after the “theater” of Feijóo’s investiture, with which in his opinion he only sought to “entrench himself as leader of the PP”, he is now going to “give up his skin”, and is going to dedicate himself “with body and soul” to achieve his re-election as head of the Executive. “There will not be a government with a President Feijóo or with a Vice President Abascal. “There is going to be a progressive government!” he assured.
And Andalusian socialism has closed ranks with this objective, as the Sevillian minister and deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, has enthusiastically highlighted in her previous interventions; the leader of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espadas; and the general secretary of the Sevillian socialists, Javier Fernández. The latter, also mayor of La Rinconada and president of the Seville Provincial Council, has defended that Sánchez’s “main obligation” is to “generate a climate of coexistence and harmony” throughout Spain.
Javier Fernández has demanded from all socialist militants “loyalty and respect” towards Pedro Sánchez, towards “the general secretary that we have elected”, in an implicit allusion to Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra, who have denounced the intention to opt for the investiture with the support of the Catalan independence movement thanks to an amnesty that they have called “anti-constitutional.” “You can disagree, of course, but respect and consideration for the Secretary General can never be lost,” he reproached them. No matter how important González and Guerra were in the past, the leader of the Sevillian socialists has warned them that in the PSOE “there are no militants A and B, we are all equal.”
And, in this sense, it has also been very significant that Minister Montero has highlighted the presence at the event of the veteran Luis Yáñez, who together with González and Guerra promoted the renewal of the PSOE in the Suresnes congress, in 1974, and who now He has stood up to his old comrades, in defense of Sánchez. Yáñez received a standing ovation, which he humbly thanked.
Pedro Sánchez has thus undertaken the difficult route in Andalusia towards his investiture as President of the Government, with a staging of the absolute support of the militancy and leadership of the main federation of the PSOE.
