With the Ramón Rubial room at the PSOE headquarters in Ferraz converted into a television set, even with an applauding audience but without journalists. And with the President of the Government himself in the role of master of ceremonies and presenter of the new format of the “work sessions”, through which his ministers will parade, to highlight these four years of management in the Executive.
This was the scenery chosen by Pedro Sánchez to begin deploying yesterday, with Minister José Luis Escrivá as a guest star, his new proposals and electoral promises before 23-J.
Sánchez thus announced that, if he manages to revalidate the position after the next general elections, he will implement the extension of maternity and paternity leave from 16 to 20 weeks. With the last four weeks –from the 17th to the 20th– of part-time work. “To make conciliation and family co-responsibility a reality,” he stressed.
During their conversation, and in response to the proposal of the PP and Vox to “repeal sanchismo”, Sánchez and Escrivá defended the consolidation of the advances already achieved this legislature, and that “they should not be trampled by an alternative conservative majority.” For this, they also announced the proposal to protect by law that the minimum interprofessional salary always reaches 60% of the average salary. As the Government already did with the law that guarantees the increase in pensions according to the CPI.
In this way, the leader of the PSOE proposed transforming a political commitment into a legal mandate, that the next legislature be inserted in the workers’ statute. The objective, he assured, is the dignity of the labor market, whoever is in charge of the Executive.
The third announcement of the day was that the pension piggy bank be financed with 5,000 million euros per year, with the aim of reaching 45,000 million in the year 2030.
Sánchez justified this new campaign format to deploy his electoral proposals, and that the citizen knows what to expect when going to vote: “Citizens need to have information, compare proposals and projects, and leave behind the noise and insults that Unfortunately, on many occasions they dominate the public and political conversation”.
Without, however, ceasing to pressure Alberto Núñez Feijóo to hold electoral debates in which to confront their projects. But the leader of the PP, for now, “is finding excuses, to delay, and with tricks to say no to the debates,” he criticized. The reason for these delays, as he suggested, is that Feijóo’s “legs are shaking.” And he called him face to face again: “Say date and time.”
