While the Government defends in the Senate the parliamentary validation of the first decrees of the legislature, for now without success since these initiatives remain threatened due to the refusal of Junts per Catalunya to support them, Pedro Sánchez has highlighted his capacity for dialogue, negotiation and agreement in a scenario of political plurality and territorial diversity that has been celebrated as an asset for the development of Spain. And he has emphasized, in particular, the progress of coexistence within the Constitution as a “success” of Spanish democracy, to overcome the bankruptcy of the independence process in Catalonia.
“Today Spain is advancing in coexistence compared to what happened a decade ago,” the President of the Government stressed in the speech with which he inaugurated the annual meeting of the Conference of Ambassadors, which is held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. , in reference to the political situation in Catalonia that erupted in 2017 with the procés. “If then the situation could drag us, and I was a witness to it, to have to explain why coexistence was broken in our country – Sánchez pointed out to the Spanish ambassadors around the world gathered at the event –, today we can show how “Coexistence makes its way, in the midst of differences and intense debates, which are normal in a mature democracy such as Spain.”
“But coexisting, and this is the big difference, all of us, within the Spanish Constitution,” highlighted the head of the Executive. “This success of Spanish democracy is a great resource to assert Spain’s influence in Europe and throughout the world,” he assured.
Sánchez has outlined his priorities in international politics to project Spain in Europe and around the world, “as the country we are: open, tolerant and plural.” “A Spain that climbs positions in all democratic rankings, that practices dialogue, negotiation and agreement as a mature democracy, as happens in other parts of Europe, a Spain that unapologetically assumes its political plurality and also its territorial diversity as an asset, not as a brake on our power and development,” the President of the Government stressed.
“A Spain,” he insisted, “confident of itself, that accepts itself as it is, in all its plurality, and that does not allow itself to be carried away by reactionary thinking that proposes censoring cultural manifestations, persecuting those who are different or nothing more and nothing less.” , in the 21st century, than to propose the illegalization of those who think differently, the illegalization of political parties.” Sánchez has thus denounced not only the far-right program of Vox, but also the proposal of the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to dissolve political parties that promote illegal declarations of independence or referendums.
