“Stability versus radicality and progress versus setback.” These will be the keys that will animate the government program that Pedro Sánchez will present this afternoon before the plenary session of Congress, in his investiture speech, in the face of right-wing parties on a war footing in the face of his imminent re-election.
At the Moncloa they highlight that the leader of the PSOE, during his speech, will make “a fiery defense of democracy, the Constitution and the action carried out by the Government in this legislature.”
It will be “a very political and very powerful speech,” they say in Sánchez’s team, in which he will deploy “a complete and comprehensive country project.” A project that, as he always says, responds to the political plurality and territorial diversity of Spain, and that translates into the absolute parliamentary majority of 179 seats that tomorrow will vote in favor of his investiture. In the Executive they highlight that Sánchez is thus running for re-election with the endorsement of 12.6 million voters, according to the result of the general elections of July 23.
With this endorsement, they emphasize that Sánchez faces “a real investiture”, not like the one carried out at the end of September by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, without having sufficient support.
Sánchez arrives at the meeting with the agreements closed for his investiture. And in his speech he will show his “respect for Parliament and society as a whole,” by defending the legitimacy of the 179 deputies elected by the citizens who will support his re-election. No matter how much the right calls this new parliamentary majority illegitimate, and even illegal.
The leader of the PSOE will thus request the trust of Congress, and by extension of the citizens, to deploy a “complete country program.” First of all, he will vindicate his government management in the last four years, with “social and rights advances.” “We have kept our word,” they highlight in the Moncloa. Secondly, he will explain all the agreements reached, “black on white”, with Sumar, to form a new coalition government, and with the rest of the parliamentary groups that will endorse his investiture and the implementation of the legislature. .
Among them, the amnesty law proposal will stand out, registered this Monday alone by the PSOE, negotiated with Junts and ERC, which in turn will have the support for its processing and the approval of an absolute majority of 178 seats. The leader of the PSOE will thus defend in his speech this amnesty for those accused of the process, which guarantees his investiture, but has fierce opposition from the right and provokes great social controversy.
Sánchez will justify his investiture agreements, they emphasize in Moncloa, as opposed to the pacts signed by the PP and the far-right Vox to govern in autonomous communities and city councils.
The socialist candidate for re-election will also claim in his speech the political and institutional stability of these last four years in office. Despite the uncertainty with which the previous legislature began, the first coalition government since the Republic managed to approve three consecutive general state budgets and more than 200 laws.
“We finished the legislature leaving a better country than the one we found ourselves in,” they highlight in the Moncloa.
And political and institutional stability will be what Sánchez will also offer for the next four years, despite the fact that the outlook for the new legislature appears equally uncertain. And very high voltage.
The leader of the PSOE will thus use in his speech “future, enthusiasm, projection, desire and determination to continue moving forward.” Four more years, they insist on Moncloa.
The State security forces and bodies keep the perimeter of Congress armored, because if the investiture debate will be fierce in the chamber, strong protests are also expected at its doors, against the amnesty law and against Sánchez’s own investiture. In this sense, the spokesperson for the acting Government, Isabel Rodríguez, yesterday condemned “the escalation of violence” that is taking place in protest against the amnesty and the imminent investiture of Sánchez.
“Once the legal text is known, many have run out of arguments,” Rodríguez warned, however. “The problem is no longer a law that is clearly impeccable from a legal point of view and perfectly framed in our Constitution, but rather that they do not accept the parliamentary majority that supports it. And this is neither more nor less than democracy,” he stressed.
“The fewer arguments, the more insults. The more frustration, the more violence and the more decibels. But the responsibility of those of us who believe in democracy is debate, dialogue and accepting the rules of the game,” defended the Government spokesperson.
Sánchez met his current Council of Ministers yesterday for the last time, with the expectation that, once he wins the investiture tomorrow, takes office and announces the composition of the new government, the first executive meeting will be held next Tuesday. newly established.
