The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, publishes his second book, titled Tierra Firma, which will go on sale next Monday, December 4, as announced this Monday by the Península publishing house, which published his previous work Manual de Resistencia in 2019. , already as head of the Executive.
Of 384 pages, Tierra Firma coincides with the start of a new term as president and, according to the editorial details, is a first-person chronicle of Sánchez’s previous mandate that covers until the election night of July 23, 2023 and addresses the action of Government but also “what is possible to achieve as a nation in the future: moving from resistance to that solid ground that Spain will reach when all the transformations already underway are completed.” According to the editorial “it appeals again to citizens, without intermediaries and outside the wheel of immediacy and media noise.”
The editorial recalls that Sánchez has formed the first coalition government in the recent history of Spain, has been at the head of the country during the coronavirus pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, as well as that he has had to deal with other crises such as the eruption of the La Palma volcano. The title, the editorial and “what is possible to achieve as a nation in the future: move from resistance to that solid ground that Spain will reach when all the transformations already underway are completed.”
The publisher summarizes about the new book that, “despite all the difficulties”, in the last legislature “the foundations were laid for major transformations in environmental policies, the fight against inequality and the digital transition as main axes.”
“These are changes that require maturation, policy coherence and perseverance to consolidate. The future opens up a complex panorama, with numerous uncertainties, in which something as elemental as the advancement or regression of our country is at stake” , he indicates.
The editorial advances a few lines from the prologue that refer to the general elections of July 23: “That night we would know if citizens accepted ‘anything goes’, including blatant lies, hoaxes, disinformation campaigns and the invention of conspiracies; if it is acceptable in the main opposition party to have a democratic attitude so poor that it considers any president of the Government who is not its own illegitimate; if the catastrophism fueled by some media outlets constituted a reflection of citizen opinion or only of their desire to have a Government close to their interests, and whether the inevitability of the right-wing Government that the polls advocated was real or imaginary.
