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2023-09-28 14:43:35

Sánchez, after Feijóo’s first failed vote: “There will be a progressive government in a short time”

The general secretary of the PSOE and acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, speaks this Thursday in front of the deputies of his political bloc in the European Parliament, the Socialists and Democrats, meeting this week in Madrid: “The electoral defeat of their attempt to setback occurred on July 23. The consummation of his parliamentary defeat will be consummated this week, and you will be able to see it live,” Sánchez said about the investiture debate of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who on Wednesday failed in his first vote by achieving 172 yeses. and 178 nos. And he added: “The progressive coalition government is preparing to repeat in a short time, that I believe is the mandate of the social majority that manifested and expressed itself freely at the polls on 23-J, beyond malicious suspicions and from the insidiousness to a model electoral process.”

“With their vote, the Spanish people clearly told all of Europe that the extreme right is not unstoppable, that the extreme right can be stopped, even though the traditional right has given in,” added the acting President of the Government. “We stopped the reactionary wave in Spain, no matter who it may be, and that is what happened that night. And we are going to stop it next year in the Parliamentary elections, which are decisive,” Sánchez continued.

“The rise of the extreme right is possible because of something very important, which we are also seeing in the discourse of the European People’s Party,” Sánchez pointed out. “If the rise of the extreme right is possible, it is due to the abdication of a traditional right, of the PP, which has been unable to resist the onslaught of the extreme right, and which ends up succumbing due to weakness, ideological weakness, and also because of fear,” The general secretary of the PSOE continued, recalling the joint governments of the PP and Vox in several communities and dozens of town councils. “This week, at the failed investiture of the failed right-wing candidate, we saw with astonishment the rhetorical complicity between the leaders of the PP and Vox. They no longer hide it, and they don’t hide it either,” Sánchez said.

“Either social democracy prevails or a reactionary wave is imposed, and that would be the beginning of the end of the EU as we live it, think it and feel it,” said Sánchez, who has celebrated the European response to the coronavirus pandemic. and the war in Ukraine. “We owe it to the social majority of this country, we know who we represent, that is why we have an autonomous project,” continued the president, who has accused the right of not having it and of being due to outside interests.

Sánchez explained what the priorities of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union are, such as closing the migration and asylum pact or the reform of the electricity market.