“Spain advances on the left” is the slogan of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE which is being held this weekend, and the entire discursive and symbolic content of the conclave is immersed in underlining this identity to confront the right and extreme right. In this context, the speech of the general secretaries of the main class unions, Unai Sordo (CCOO) and Pepe Álvarez (UGT)have not clashed and have served to deepen this line.
The two union centers have shown their support for this progressive coalition government, “the most transformative we have had in the history of this country”Álvarez has come to define it. “We are going to be supporting and working together,” the UGT leader has promised, before Sánchez and the socialist militancy.
Previously, Sordo did the same. “Rarely has the history of our country needed a strong PSOE more strongly, a key factor in facing the reactionary risk that the world is experiencing in terms that we had not known in recent decades,” he explained.
The leader of CCOO has called from the lectern to “addressing an epochal paradox”. While “rarely in history has the need for common resources, the State, the public, to save the country and society” been more evident, the reactionary risk is “the most evident since World War II.
Sordo has also expressed a reflection: when the right advances, the left tends to think that it has done something wrong from a Judeo-Christian perspective. Faced with this, the trade unionist believes that “what has happened is that, in very difficult circumstances, There has been a reasonably left-wing policy that has turned out quite well and you pay dearly for that.”
Álvarez has supported the idea, ensuring that the Government, for example, “was not going to be free to raise pensions and revalue them with the CPI, since it would close the door to the idea that the pension system has to be privatized.” For all these reasons, the leader of the UGT has opted for “not making us waste a lot of time”, “Let’s try to focus the debates on what worries working people”, he has claimed from the PSOE. “Between real Spain and the gatherings and hoaxes there is an important difference”has concluded.
Sordo has encouraged the work of “placing desirable futures” because “there is nothing worse than the feeling that everything is falling apart.” And he has given a mandate to Sánchez: “Resist, political intelligence, but resist”. “It is not true that the future is written,” concluded the highest representative of CCOO.
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