He defends that “there is a party” for Morant to be president and appreciates Puig’s legacy in the Generalitat
The President of the Government and leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, assured this Sunday that the socialists will once again demonstrate that, if they mobilize and have “things clear”, they are capable of “stopping the right and the extreme right”, by Just like in the general elections of 23J.
“And we will do it again in 2027, in Valencia and in Spain. They will make mud and we will govern. Diana, go ahead,” he said, addressing the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, at the closing of the Benicàssim PSPV congress in the one who has emerged as the new leader of the Valencian socialists. The conclave was attended by former minister Leire Pajín.
In a Valencian key, Sánchez has congratulated Morant because he sees “excitement and hope” in the PSPV and has thanked the members of its executive Alejandro Soler and Carlos Fernández Bielsa for their “exercise of responsibility and unity to make this congress a success “, since they applied to go to primaries but later withdrew after reaching an agreement.
Regarding Morant, he highlighted his humility and his “strong determination and great convictions.” “She has made herself: she is an engineer, she has been mayor, a minister and she will be the first president of the Valencian Community, I am convinced. You will have all our support (…) There is a party, a team, a political project and many reasons to remove these people from PP and Vox from the Generalitat Valenciana,” he stated.
Addressing the former leader of the PSPV, Ximo Puig, he thanked his time as ‘president’ for managing to reverse “a stage of widespread corruption” and “privatization” and assured that he could “always” count on him, “also as a friend.” “You have laid the foundations for a more competitive, green, socially fair and exemplary Valencian Community, and we thank you for that,” he said, highlighting that they replicated his policies in the Government.
In a state-level speech, Sánchez reiterated that he intends to finish the legislature and that it will take a “very long time” for PP and Vox to be in the opposition, in addition to accusing them of covering up their lack of a project with “noise and insults.” with “a clear interest in demobilizing citizens so that they do not believe in politics.” “Those who are equal are PP and Vox: they are Feijóo and Abascal,” he added.
“In the face of insults, we have to respond with temperance. The best response to their lies is our policies, being on top of things, opening the great debates that citizens need and applying them through laws,” he claimed, and warned that ” “It is not an easy challenge, but if there is a party that can do it, it is the PSOE.”
Furthermore, the leader of the PSOE has taken his chest out of the state economic data, such as the good tourist forecast for Easter, to affirm that “Spain is going in the right direction while the opposition is rampaging”: “The opposition has been threatening the apocalypse for six years and as Easter approaches, hotel occupancy skyrockets by 85%.”
Looking ahead to the rest of the legislature, he has urged the opposition to “take the opportunity to build an alternative and do something more than insult” and has defended that it is “a good time to do pedagogy” within the PSOE, since in his opinion the data socioeconomic conditions do not correspond to the level of tension and polarization in Congress and “in the media.”
Of course, Sánchez has stressed that “it is an asymmetrical tension and polarization.” “Some attack and others are the ones attacked, as a consequence of the right and the extreme right not assuming that they have lost the elections and are going to be in the opposition for four more years,” he noted, and assured that PP and Vox “mimicking themselves.” “.
But he has urged us to be aware that “it is not an Iberian phenomenon” that the right allows itself to be “parasitized” by the extreme right, since it is happening in other parts of the world such as the United States, Argentina or Italy. “It’s so bad, it’s so bad. They say the same thing and vote the same thing,” he stressed.
“And the Valencian Community is a very eloquent case,” he has illustrated, something that he has linked to the five law proposals presented last Thursday afternoon by the members of the Consell (PP-Vox) that “repeal historical memory, corner the Valencian and eliminate the fight against corruption”.
At the same time, he has accused the PP of not recognizing the legitimacy of the Government “since the 2018 motion of censure” and of “using the institutions against anyone who does not think like them”, by “using the Senate against the Congress” “confronting the autonomous governments against the Government”, “breaching the Constitution” by blocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) and “generating doubts about the good reputation of Spain in Europe”.
“They use lies as a way of doing politics,” he summarized, and gave as an example when “some leader of the Valencian PP said (in the 23J elections) that an AVE train from Valencia to Madrid had stopped” to insinuate that it was premeditated. . “As if people on the left weren’t on the train,” he concluded about this “absurdity.”
Vindicates the “DIGNITY” OF ITS POLICIES
In economic matters, Sánchez stressed that “the facts and data are there” and that “the vast majority of citizens do not identify the reforms with cuts, but with dignity.” It is something that he has linked to the increase in the minimum wage, the job creation records, the intention of not reducing “the pension pie” for the new generations or the reduction of the deficit and debt.
“We have all the arguments and all the reasons to continue over the next three years consolidating the advances that we have promoted in these six years,” he claimed, to highlight that in the more than one hundred days that they have been in office they have approved the Parity Law –“we are a feminist government because we are a feminist party”– and they have allocated one billion euros to science, to which they are “eternally grateful” for its role in the pandemic.
Addressing the minister, he guaranteed that, as long as the PSOE is at the head of the Government, “this country is going to bet on science, on innovation and on the public university.” “We are not going to stop,” he said, and highlighted promises such as universalizing education for 0-3 years between now and the end of the term, reaching 80% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2030 or increasing the pension fund. at 25,000 million euros.
He has also rejected the claim of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that “Spain is in a terrible economic moment”, since he has stressed that a European commissioner said that it is “in much better shape than the European Union.”
“WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE PALESTINIAN STATE”
On the other hand, at the international level, Sánchez has reiterated his intention to “recognize the Palestinian State”, after this past Friday he agreed with the leaders of Ireland, Slovenia and Malta to recognize it when “the right circumstances arise” and help resolve the conflict in the Middle East.
