2023-05-31 14:49:00
The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, explained this Wednesday before his parliamentarians -and above all those who wanted to follow the appearance- what led him to call early elections for July 23, and why it is worth continuing fighting for a progressive government.
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We review the phrases that have marked Sánchez’s appearance:
- “I made the decision with my conscience”
At the beginning of his statement, Pedro Sánchez has assured that he decided with his “conscience” to advance the general elections by several months, after the results of 28M, in which the PP swept and the left fell in an almost general way. Sánchez said this Wednesday that he could not continue “as if nothing happened” and that he had to “assume the results”.
- “I know that the holidays are approaching, but what is decided on 23J will be decisive”
The President of the Government has justified the date of the next generals –controversial for catching it in the middle of summer– alluding to the importance of these elections. “I know perfectly well that we all get tired and I thought about it when I made this decision. I know that the holidays are approaching, the first completely normal ones after the end of the pandemic. I take responsability (…). But what is decided on 23J is going to be decisive for Spain ”, he has raised.
- “The PSOE is the party that most resembles Spain”
Sánchez has quoted the former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to affirm that “The PSOE is the party that most resembles Spain.” Immediately afterwards, Pedro Sánchez has questioned whether the opposition of the “extreme right” represents the feelings, principles and struggles of Spanish society. “Does Ortega Smith despising a woman in a wheelchair victim of gender violence look like Spain? Díaz Ayuso calling climate change a great scam and saying that everything is fixed by putting flower pots on the balconies looks like Spain?” The president has questioned, to end up concluding that “Spain is better than PP and Vox”.
- “Our party was not founded by seven ex-ministers of a dictatorship with financing from some bankers”
In the section of criticism of the PP, Sánchez has not been cut. “Our party was not founded by seven ex-ministers of a dictatorship with the financing of some bankers. The PSOE was formed by 25 workers in a bar in Madrid ”, he has launched, in a clear reference to the Popular Party and its origins, confronting it with the founding of the Socialist Party in 1879 as a workers’ party.
- “The vote of a bus driver is worth the same as that of a television channel owner”
During his appearance, Sánchez encouraged people to vote in the upcoming elections, because “the vote makes us all equal.” The PSOE general secretary has stressed that “the vote of a bus driver is worth the same as that of a television channel owner, the vote of a supermarket cashier counts the same as that of the president of a bank.”
- “It is necessary to clarify if Spain wants a president on the side of Biden or Trump”
At various times during his appearance, Sánchez has placed Spain, and the upcoming elections, within the international context and the reactionary wave that is sweeping through several countries. Thus, the socialist leader has indicated that the next elections will serve to “clarify as soon as possible if the Spanish want a government next to Joe Biden or Donald Trump, Lula da Silva or Jair Bolsonaro (…), if the Spanish they want social justice or if they consider that social justice is envy”, as the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, stated a few weeks ago.
- “They will talk about a punch and that I must be held responsible”
Sánchez has made use of what happened in the United States under Trump’s leadership to warn of what could happen in Spain in the next elections. The President of the Government recalled the “pizzagate” hoax, the campaign of the American right that maintained that the then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was in charge of a network of trafficking of minors based in a pizzeria in Washington. Already in reference to Spain, he has said: “They will talk about pucherazo; Some will do it, and others will say that I must be held responsible for that pothole. They have already done it and they will do it again. His North American teachers launched a mob to storm the Capitol to denounce a false pout ”.
- “From its position of dominance in the big media, a fierce campaign is going to be unleashed”
Sánchez has also criticized the tension on the right and the spread of misinformation in the media. “From the position of dominance that they have in large companies, in the large media, an even more ferocious campaign of insults and disqualifications is going to be unleashed,” he said, alluding to the opposition and facing the campaign of the general elections.
The socialist leader has warned that political tension will grow in the coming weeks fueled by the right: “We will see people who only represent themselves pontificate and insult without the right to reply in prime-time programs.” “They are going to invent atrocities, nothing is new”, continued Sánchez, who has once again stressed that what the right and the extreme right are doing in Spain “is copying the methods of their North American teachers”, referring to the Trumpism unleashed in United States, where, for example, the Fox News chain faces millions in fines for the lie of electoral fraud that ended with the assault on the Capitol in Washington.
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