This Wednesday, Pedro Sánchez chaired the first meeting of the Council of Ministers of his new mandate. And all members of the renewed progressive coalition government, now between the PSOE and Sumar, have been given a personalized letter, signed by the head of the Executive, in which he urges them to act “with unity, solvency and determination, in the shared desire to contribute to social advancement, coexistence, institutional stability and dialogue between different people.”
In his letter, as reported by Moncloa, the President of the Government has conveyed to the members of the Council of Ministers the “priorities” that they must assume in this new legislature that is now getting underway.
They are the following, as indicated by Sánchez to his vice presidents and ministers:
-Complete the modernization and transformation of the productive fabric, in a green and digital key, “to move towards full employment, of higher quality and improve the purchasing power of the middle class and workers.”
-Further strengthen the welfare state to “reduce inequality with more resources allocated to education, health and dependency.”
-Improve access to housing, especially for young people, “making this right the fifth pillar of our welfare state.”
-Continue promoting a “just ecological transition” for mitigation and adaptation to the climate emergency and “convert this challenge into an opportunity for the “reindustrialization of all territories.”
-Consolidate Spain as a “world benchmark in real and effective equality between men and women.”
-Strengthen territorial cohesion and face the demographic challenge.
-“Advance the reunion agenda to guarantee harmony in our country.”
-And, finally, “continue to strengthen Spain’s leadership in the European and international arena.”
“These priorities – the president points out in his letter – are summarized in a specific objective: to improve the lives of Spanish men and women. Give our citizens a horizon of security and certainty, with more and better jobs, more and better public services, more affordable housing, more sustainability, more equality; as well as more territorial cohesion, more coexistence and more Europe.”
“We are no strangers to the current political climate,” Sánchez points out in the letter. A climate exacerbated by those who not only deny the original legitimacy of this Executive, but also seek to question its legitimacy of exercise. To the tension, we will respond with work. To interested noise, with dialogue and outstretched hand. “To disqualification and insult, with a sincere appeal to the harmony and coexistence that the vast majority of society longs for.”
