former socialist leaders criticize the government pacts with political forces such as Esquerra Republicana and Bildu and the coalition with Podemos. They stress that they come to party “unrecognizable”which has mutated” at the same time that they are “concerned” by being in “disagreement” with the coalition government.
Some 140 socialists and supportersincluding relatives of some deceased, have participated in the ‘Meeting of Socialists, I Remember Socialists’ held in a Madrid restaurant.
“Unrecognizable Match”
“It is an unrecognizable party and it is the worst thing that can happen to a political party,” he explained. Jose Maria Mugica, son of the socialist politician assassinated by ETA, Fernando Mugica. He points out that the PSOE “has mutated to who knows where, or for what.”
Former State Attorney General Eligio hernandez He has assured that some Socialists “are concerned”, since in his opinion, they are in “disagreement with the government coalition” because the PSOE “never agreed with independentistas throughout its history.”
The former Minister of Culture between 2007 and 2009, Cesar Antonio MolinaIn this regard, he stressed that the meeting was attended by people who “continue to be linked to socialism, to social democracy”. He also indicates that “young people who are going to have to continue fighting for what we did” have come. Molina has also criticized the fact that it is possible to speak of “historical memory and of the Republicans who died in exile” and, nevertheless, “it is not possible to speak of ETA”.
The one who was delegate of the Government in Andalusia Alfonso Garrido Avila He has stated that if there is something that distinguishes a socialist, it is “being in favor of and fighting for things that benefit society.” For this reason, Garrido details that the PSOE needs “a deep reflection of why and where it is going.”
The former president of the Social Economic Council (CES), Marcos Penabelieves that coexistence is damaged, since promoting it in order to alleviate social unrest “requires dialogue, tolerance, respect, understanding of the other and right now things do not coexist.”
The former director of the PSC in Catalonia, Javier Marin Vazquez, He has also reflected on the “false complex” of the PSC, in relation to the opinion that it was thought that “it had leaders” in this case, “that we came from the labor movement and they did not like to show them off.”