MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will be elected at the end of November to preside over the Socialist International since he is the only candidate who has presented himself at the end of the term to do so, as socialist sources have informed Europa Press.
In this way, the head of the Spanish Executive and general secretary of the PSOE will become the successor of the Greek Yorgos Papandreou, who has headed the international organization since 2006, during the next Congress of the Socialist International that will take place in Madrid between November 25 and 27.
Pedro Sánchez made the announcement that he would present his candidacy to lead this organization during the meeting of the Presidium that the organization held in September in New York, while proposing internal reforms to modernize it.
In addition, Sánchez himself announced it on his Twitter account, asserting that the socialists are the ones who have always opted to advance and conquer new rights and freedoms, and warning that they will continue to do so. “Together, together, and with renewed strength,” stressed the head of the Spanish Executive at that time.
Pedro Sánchez pointed out in New York that “there could not be a higher or more cherished cause” and for this reason he added that it would be a “privilege to have the drive of all and all to carry it out”.
The PSOE leader also proposed that the Socialist International consider internal reforms. Thus, he affirmed that he aspires to contribute his experience to start “a new time in this organization” and to continue the legacy of his “friend Yorgos Papandreou (…) and leaders such as Willy Brandt, Pierre Mauroy or the current secretary general of the United Nations. United, Antonio Guterres”.
For him, social democracy is the “only viable alternative to both the individualism of the neoliberal order and the return of extremism”, since he considers that both phenomena “go hand in hand”. Before his party colleagues he already stated in New York his opinion that the conservative response to the last crisis caused a wave of inequality, which in turn increased mistrust in institutions due to the dismantling of the welfare state to which he attributes the broth of cultivation for the appearance of “extremist currents”.
For this reason and against the conservative union, he defended social-democratic ideas as “those responsible for the highest levels of progress and well-being achieved in contemporary societies” and, along these lines, claimed to have an “unwavering faith in the validity of the principles of social democracy”.
An ideology that proposes to update modern challenges and achieve new goals in terms of equality, climate change, fair economy and defense of democracy.
