MADRID, 20 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has demanded this Monday that the socialist barons be “loyal” to the project of the PSOE general secretary, Pedro Sánchez, in the Government and has encouraged them to campaign “actively” in the face of the general elections on July 23.
Asked if he misses support from former presidents for Pedro Sánchez, Zapatero ironized that “perhaps” that is why he has to “do many interviews” supporting the Prime Minister. “To cover gaps”, he has confessed without citing Felipe González, while he has asked the barons of the PSOE to campaign “actively” in favor of the current secretary general
“As we have all been actively supporting each other. Being part of a collective project means being loyal. And what is loyalty? That you support your colleagues and your colleagues support you”, Zapatero defended in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press, in which he has indicated that he will go where he is required to get his chest out of the management of the Coalition Executive. “I want to see all the leaders of the Socialist Party doing this campaign,” he reiterated.
On the other hand, Zapatero has highlighted that the PP surpassed the PSOE in the last municipal elections by “three points”, for which reason he has trusted in a “comeback” ahead of 23J. “The Socialist Party has shown on more than one occasion that it is a party to make that comeback,” he assured.
In his opinion, the Socialists have to “dismantle” the “anti-Sanchista bubble” that the opposition has created “with insidiousness and lies” and has denounced the ‘ad hominem’ personal attacks on the Prime Minister as he does not remember “a political leader”. in Spain.
These attacks, according to Zapatero, have been carried out because the Sánchez government “has a great management balance” and the country “is on a very positive path, economically, socially, modern, improving productivity, creating jobs “. “It is like that and that is why Feijóo does not want to debate,” he has ugly.
The former socialist president has defended that “every ruler” changes his mind during his term, as did, in his opinion, Felipe González with NATO, Aznar agreeing with Jordi Pujol or Rajoy, who “said he was going to lower all taxes and brought them up.”
“I had to make a decision and change a commitment that is not to make cuts. With the financial crisis I had to go to Parliament one month of May to make cuts because that is what governing is,” he claimed, who has also praised the pardons for the Catalan independence prisoners: “The more criteria are changed and the result is positive, it is worth it,” he said.