He warns, in the face of the Podemos crisis, that progressives want strong organizations and do not see a Sánchez-Yolanda Díaz ticket as possible
He justifies the president’s attack on Guindos for the “mortgage” that he left to the Spanish
MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spokesperson for the Socialist Group in the Senate, Eva Granados, has been convinced that the PSOE will turn the polls around because she believes that the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is beginning to lose the value of the moderate vote. In addition, and facing the municipal and regional elections in May, she assures that the socialist barons are not afraid of the Government’s pacts with ERC and Bildu. She does not want to comment on the internal crisis of Podemos with the Sumar platform, but she does specify that the progressive majority wants strong organizations. Of course, she rules out the possibility of a Sánchez-Yolanda Díaz ticket.
During an interview with Europa Press, the Socialist Spokesperson in the Senate has been convinced that her party is going “to turn the polls around” ahead of the elections, but recalls that there is still “a long way to go”, a year, to the general ones. However, she considers that despite the short time that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has been at the head of the PP, the expectations that he generated have been deflating.
Thus, he recalled that at that time “the polls were swollen” but he affirms that “when Feijóo began to speak” his assessment has begun to drop, especially, precisely, among the moderate electorate. “We are seeing it at a forced march, it is losing points in the evaluation of what would be the moderate electorate of our country,” exclaims Granados.
In this sense, he explains that the ‘popular’ leader had an image of moderate, and good manager. However, he believes that what is being seen is that he “neither is moderate, nor is he a statesman”, to which he adds that he is “profoundly insolvent in his statements”.
“I am concerned about what team they have, how they can be so alone and conveying to the citizens as a whole statements like the ones they give us every week, is that every week we have a statement that goes directly against the facts, the truth, more beyond qualifications”, exclaims the socialist spokeswoman.
During the interview, he also referred to the latest statements by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to warn Feijóo that if he wants to be president of all Spaniards, he should not allow the regional president to say “barbarities” and talk about a “coup government that wants to imprison the opposition.”
In his opinion, the polarization that Spanish politics is experiencing and these kinds of statements should make everyone think because “not everything goes in politics.” In his opinion, these statements are due to the fact that the PP does not recognize the democratic legitimacy of the Government. And he warns that accusing the government of “illegitimate” is “very dangerous.”
And he adds that the Madrid president uses “squid ink” to cover up the health emergency suffered by the Community of Madrid, since she believes that she is more concerned that the people of Madrid “penalize her in May” than about what is happening in the outpatients But she is convinced that the health crisis in Madrid will take its toll. “What is not acceptable is that she tries to cover up with squid ink, with such serious accusations against the President of the Government,” she adds.
Asked about the concern of the socialist barons that the Government’s pacts with ERC and Bildu could take their toll on the regional and municipal ones, Eva Granados affirms that she does not see “fear” in the barons.
And he alleges that what he sees is a “dialoguing government” in a fragmented Parliament. “When you don’t have a majority, you have to seek parliamentary majorities,” he clarifies while recalling that in the Budget debate in Congress it was seen that the Government “is negotiating and agreeing with a large majority of the Congress of Deputies.”
In this sense, he affirms that those who do not enter into the agreements is because “they exclude themselves” and wonders “what is wrong with raising pensions with inflation, raising the SMI, the professional training law, the Minimum Vital Income or that of euthanasia”. “We have a government that, as never before, is agreeing with the whole of the parliamentary arch and that excludes those who do not want to be part of those majorities,” he adds.
Eva Granados does not want to enter into the internal discussion between Podemos and Yolanda Díaz’s Sumar platform. She considers that “we must be very respectful of the internal dynamics of the movements, and of the parties, of any of them.”
He highlights that at this moment there is a “success story” of a coalition government for the first time in Spain, so “the adjustments and the debates that they have within their space, because I think they are internal debates that will have to be elucidated between they”.
However, it does specify that “the citizenry as a whole, and especially the progressive majority in our country, wants and hopes that there are proposals from the left and, therefore, also strong organizations that can defend them.”
And although he admits that Pablo Iglesias, who has launched harsh criticism these days against Yolanda Díaz, is a “person of weight”, he considers that the structure of Podemos is now represented by “three women” who are the ones who “are taking the helm of the organization”. But, in any case, he points out that it is not up to her to assess the statements of each of them.
Faced with the possibility that these internal disagreements between its partners could put many municipal or regional governments at risk, Eva Granados points out that what the voters will have to assess are the candidates and the proposals they make.
In his opinion, citizens are very aware of what is voted at any given time. Thus, he points out that in Spain “two models of society” are presented, one that comes from the “nationalist right, from the PP, which wants less of the State and favors the powerful” and the other, the left that defends services public and the welfare state.
In any case, Eva Granados rejects the possibility that there could be an electoral ticket Pedro Sánchez and Yolanda Díaz. “They are two political profiles that complement each other from two political projects that also complement each other,” she argues.
Regarding the criticisms made by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to the Vice President of the European Central Bank, Luis de Guindos for asking Spain to reconsider the tax on banks, the Socialist spokesperson assures that he “is not just another leader of the ECB “.
He alleges, in this sense, that “Guindos has behind him a record of services that left a large mortgage to all Spaniards.” For this reason, he justifies that Sánchez criticized him “not so much as a leader of the ECB, but as with the management that he left the Spaniards here.”
