Pedro Sánchez will continue to lead the Government. After five days of confinement, together with his family, in the Moncloa Palace, to decide on his future, the head of the Executive has finally announced that he is staying to fight against those who, he says, have tried to break him in order to obtain personal attacks, hoaxes and lies what they did not achieve at the polls. «I have decided to continue with more strength if he fits as head of the presidency of the government of Spain. This decision is not a full stop, it is a full stop, I guarantee it. “For this reason,” he stated, “I assume before you my commitment to work tirelessly, firmly and with serenity for the pending regeneration of our democracy and for the advancement and consolidation of rights and freedoms.”
The decision represents an immense relief, fundamentally, for his party, which, since last Wednesday, had experienced with real anguish the possibility that today its leader would announce his resignation without time to prepare an orderly exit, and for his coalition partners. Because, until he made public the letter in which he announced his intention to take some time to “reflect”, the message was different, that the PP's term was going to be very long because he intended to hold out until the end of the term. final. He said it after the Galician defeat, he also said it after the outbreak of the 'Koldo case' and every time someone questioned whether Junts would continue supporting him once the amnesty was obtained and after the Catalans.
The united PSOE demanded that this Saturday in an exceptional federal committee, resulting in an explosion of emotion from leaders and militants in the streets, that he not throw in the towel, that he not give the opposition the pleasure of handing over his head. “It's worth it for the good guys to win,” said María Jesús Montero, who, for a good part of the socialists, was called to be her natural successor beyond the first interim period that would have corresponded to her. Also this Sunday, personalities from the world of culture and the leaders of the majority unions gave him support, and around 5,000 people gathered at the doors of Congress in solidarity with him under the motto “For the love of democracy.”
The President of the Government has thanked all these demonstrations and has even assured that they have “decisively influenced” his final election, announced via television signal at 11:00 a.m. in an intervention to which the press has not been summoned, after of a brief visit to the Zarzuela Palace to inform the King.
Sánchez already argued in the letter that five long days ago he wrote alone, without consulting even his hard core – after a judge decided to open preliminary proceedings regarding his wife, Begoña Díaz, on a complaint from the pseudo-union Manos Médicas, led by the far-right Miguel Bertrand – that his doubts arose from a way of doing politics that he attributed to factual powers that oppose his progressive project. And that is the fight that he now intends to re-incarnate, again as a 'phoenix', but after having exposed, for the first time, his great weakness, the affliction of his family.
«My wife and I know that this smear campaign will not stop. We have been suffering from it for 10 years. It is serious, but it is not the most relevant thing. “We can handle it,” he stated, before making a public appeal. «There is only one way to reverse this situation. May the social majority, as they have done these five days, mobilize in a determined commitment to dignity and common sense, putting a stop to the politics of shame that we have been suffering for too long. Because this is not about the destiny of a particular leader, that is the least important thing – he argued -. “It's about deciding what kind of society we want to be and I think our country needs to do this collective reflection.”
What the president's plans are and the legislative agenda he intends to promote is still unknown. In any case, he will have to carry it out with some members of the legislature who, to a large extent, this week, with his speech, have felt legitimized in their denunciation of alleged persecution by the deep state. «Let's show the world how democracy is defended. Let's put an end to this mud in the only possible way, through collective, serene, democratic rejection, beyond the acronyms and ideologies that I – he stressed in his appearance – commit to leading firmly as president of the government of Spain. »
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