MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former Prime Minister, Felipe González, has raised again today the need to repeat the Moncloa Pacts in one of the “most complex moments” in history such as the current one. This was stated before the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, during the opening of the exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the victory of the PSOE on October 28, 1982.
The event took place at the socialist headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid, after the meeting of the Federal Executive Commission, and was also attended by former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Secretary General Joaquín Almunia, the Deputy Secretary General of the PSOE and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, the Secretary of Organization of the party, Santos Cerdán and the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona.
With a background that imitates the famous electoral poster -inspired by the one made by the cartoonist José Ramón- with which Felipe González asked for the vote in the first electoral campaigns of democracy, the former President of the Government has indicated that the current Executive It has been an “extraordinarily difficult” time.
In this sense, he has argued that now “the only predictable thing for the coming months is the unpredictable; the only certainty is that there are no certainties.” Felipe González has specified that the “complex path” has been accelerated by Putin’s war and by that process that pretends to be one of deglobalization, but that it will never be because, he has pointed out, there will always be dependence on one and the other.
Thus, he stressed that “one of the most complex moments” of the last 40 years is now being experienced, although he recalled that the first years of the Adolfo Suárez government were also complex, but he wanted to recall the Moncloa Pacts that were signed then and that are, in his opinion, “so loved today if they could be repeated”.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for his part, has not picked up the gauntlet thrown by Felipe González on the repetition of the Moncloa Pacts, but he has conveyed the “pride” of the party for the legacy they have received from the presidents socialists who preceded him. He has pointed out that they recognize themselves in the work of those who preceded them and inheritors of his legacy. “We walk with the clear conscience of having been on the right side of history, with 140 years of life”, he specified.
Regarding the exhibition, he pointed out that he reviews the great milestones of that legacy and has defended that there is a “common link” that has been to provide Spain with a “true welfare state”. “Saying it in this legislature seems more pertinent than ever,” he exclaimed, although he clarified that Spain still has an account pending with equality.
He added that he is not afraid of challenges and that despite living in a difficult context such as, he specified, the first years of democracy, they have European “patriotism” and the moral authority of having fought for the freedom and democracy of our land. And with this endorsement, he has indicated that today Spain is helping the Ukrainian people against Putin’s invasion.
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