The first attendees of an unprecedented Federal Committee have begun to convert the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid this Saturday morning into a closing of ranks around the figure of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and his wife , Begoña Gómez, in response to what the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, has considered as “an attack by the ultra pack.”
This is how Bolaños expressed himself upon his arrival at the Federal Committee, which starts at 10:30 a.m. and is held three days after the President of the Government announced by letter via Twitter that he would take a few days off—until next Monday—to determine whether or not he remains in office as a result of the complaints and the opening of proceedings for possible influence peddling against his wife in what he considers “an operation of harassment and demolition.”
Upon his arrival at the Federal Committee of the PSOE, the minister and Sánchez’s strong man told journalists that, “in the face of such a ruthless, cruel and unfair attack by the ultra pack against the president of the Government, against Begoña and against the entire Government, today, the progressives, but not only the progressives, all the democrats, are going to demonstrate for a clean democracy and also to give support to both Pedro Sánchez and Begoña.”
The Government spokesperson and Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría, expressed her “support and support” for Pedro Sánchez to continue his work at the head of the Executive and denounced a “dirty war that we have been suffering for more than ten years”.
Alegría related what is happening to the “indiscriminate attack that we have been suffering for more than ten years” that he linked to the “dirty war using public funds” that was launched in the Ministry of the Interior when Mariano Rajoy governed.
Also the spokesperson for the Federal Executive of the PSOE, Esther Peña, has predicted that today will be a “very exciting day” in which society will “put its foot on the wall” because the resistance of the PSOE “has a limit, but so does society.” .
“It is not possible that we have normalized the insult, it is not possible that the hoax has been normalized, it is not possible that the use of public funds to intimidate and spy on the President’s relatives has been normalized,” Peña stressed.
“The PSOE has been putting up with a Popular Party for too long that has even gone so far as to use the State bodies, the highest levels of the State, to personally and politically persecute the President of the Government because they cannot handle him,” he criticized. the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez.
To which he added that the PSOE is “stronger than ever” to “stand up” to the popular ones because “this is not just about us, it is about defending democracy.”
The Secretary of Federal Politics of the PSOE, Patxi López, has assured that today represents “a closing of ranks” around Pedro Sánchez and “everything that it means”: “Good politics against the mud, the defense of the general interest against the privileges of a few and the defense of democracy against those who want to pull the strings from behind,” he added.
For his part, the general secretary of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato, has stressed that today to defend what Spain “deserves” which is not only democracy, but also “democratic attitudes”, to which he has demanded a “recognition of political legitimacy.
The socialists have postponed until next Tuesday the commission in charge of publishing the party list for the European elections, despite the fact that this Saturday they will ratify Teresa Ribera, the current third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, as socialist number one for these elections .
The party federations have chartered dozens of buses throughout Spanish territory to mobilize the militants in a show of support for the figure of Pedro Sánchez, absent at this meeting.
