He defends the plurality of his majority in Congress against the accusation of the PP of agreeing with those who seek to break the country
Pedro Sánchez came up at the closing of the congress of the Galician socialists and boasted that the newly elected Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, is going to apply in his country the same policies that his Government has developed in Spain for three and a half years. The exercise of self-promotion led him to affirm that the Executive that he presides is “at the forefront of what is to come in Europe” with the rise of the social democratic forces.
The socialist leader closed the XIV Congress of the PSdeG yesterday in Santiago de Compostela with a speech full of praiseworthy references to his Government. “The mirror – he went on to say – in which they look” other European countries for economic recovery and measures against the pandemic. Sánchez ignored the drastic reduction of the economic forecasts for Spain that European organizations have made and the worrying figures that point to a rebound in the health crisis due to the covid. It also did so in Galicia, a community in which the PSOE is the third political force behind the PP and the nationalists of the BNG and in which it has not governed since 2009 nor has any prospect of doing so in the short term.
But Sánchez was determined to value his government work. That is why he congratulated himself on the agreement reached in Germany between the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals – “the real ones, not the ones we have in Spain who always look to the right” – that will allow Scholz to govern after 16 years of governments of the Christian Democrat Angela Merkel. A pact, he continued, that includes “the minimum wage, the equalization of wages for men and women, the minimum vital income, the revaluation of pensions, professional training, scholarships. Everything we have been doing for almost three and a half years since the Government of Spain.
“Pride of being Spanish”
For all this, he said he feels “pride of the country, pride of being Spanish” and because, in his opinion, his Executive has dismantled “the paradigm” that the right manages the economy better than the left. “Social democracy – he declared – governs the economy better than neoliberalism” because it has made the recovery from the economic crisis caused by the pandemic “faster and fairer.”
Not content with the display of propaganda favorable to his government, he lashed out at the opposition, to which he blamed all the evils. He put his chest out for the approval for the second consecutive year of the General State Budgets with the support of eleven parliamentary forces. Support, he continued, which reflects “the democratic plurality” of the bloc that supports the Government.
Sánchez wanted to remove the thorn from the acidic criticisms of the PP, Vox and Ciudadanos to their partners and allies, whom the opposition identifies with the heirs of ETA terrorism and with those who intend to break Spain due to its independence aspirations. That majority in Congress, said the leader of the PSOE, reflects “the Spain that I love, with all the colors, languages and identities”, and not “the small and gray Spain” to which, in his opinion, “the right wing aspires ».
He individualized his tirade in the PP, which he again reproached for “not complying with” the Constitution by “blocking” the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. With this attitude, he added, the popular people not only violate constitutional precepts but also “damage democracy, and that is inexcusable at this time.”
It was even allowed to mention “sanchismo”, the derogatory allusion of the opposition to the PSOE, to reject that it had failed to fulfill its commitments. He chose what is perhaps the most successful task of the government administration, the vaccination campaign to remember that Pablo Casado predicted its failure. “If we had not met them (the objectives), Sánchez’s fault; as we have fulfilled them, it is thanks to the autonomous communities ».
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