The parties that form the government coalition seek to quickly leave behind the succession of controversies around the amnesty and move on to the next screen. At the start of 2024, politics will look to Galicia, where more and more voices believe that President Alfonso Rueda will carry out an advance that will place the elections between February and March. The PSOE and Sumar, aware of the importance that these elections have in calibrating the electoral muscle of the Popular Party after the social rejection that the amnesty has generated, are turning to this territory from this very weekend.
While Yolanda Díaz presented her Sumar delegation on Galician soil in La Coruña, Pedro Sánchez visited Santiago de Compostela to support his candidate, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, during the political convention of the Galician socialists.
Shortly after Podemos held a massive event in Madrid in which it launched the former Minister of Equality Irene Montero as a future purple candidate for the European elections that will also be held in 2024, Yolanda Díaz made an “appeal” to the “progressive forces Galician” to “walk together”, at the same time that she defended her achievements in Labor in the last four years and highlighted Sumar’s deep “labor” character.
“It’s good that we have differences,” said the Sumar leader to remember how the coalition Executive has functioned reliably despite the internal discrepancies of the last legislature. For this reason, she called on the rest of the leftist forces, without mentioning Podemos, to join forces to stop the right.
Specifically, Sánchez warned that the greatest “threat” to democracy at the moment is an “extreme right-wing international” that has not found success in Spain because the left stopped it on June 23 with the current alliance of forces that maintains Alberto Núñez Feijóo “and his vice president” Santiago Abascal in the opposition.
The President of the Government threw various darts at the popular leader during his speech. He accused him of “flirting with the extreme right”, with the danger that this has of becoming deeply similar to it, and urged him to “work” for this legislature, since in 20 days of his mandate the right has demonstrated “100 times “but has not shown any interest in collaborating on issues such as the modification of article 49 of the Constitution or the renewal of the Judicial Branch, “which they have been blocking for five years.”
In this regard, Sánchez defended his roadmap in recent weeks with his parliamentary allies and assured that “there is only one party” in our country “that does not comply with the Constitution”, and that is the Popular Party. “It cannot be that the right gives lessons on constitutionalism but then does not comply,” the head of the Executive launched.
Ferraz’s intention is to definitively start the legislature and put aside the criticism from Génova, which still establishes Feijóo as the winner at the polls. “Respect begins with respecting the result of the elections,” Sánchez responded to this question. “What a democracy it is in which you only respect legitimacy when you win and govern.”
Despite the efforts of the left to turn the page, the right continues to take to the streets to protest against the amnesty and Sánchez’s policy of pacts. This Sunday the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will participate in the demonstration called in Pamplona by UPN against the agreement reached by the socialists with EH Bildu to take away the mayor’s office of the Navarrese capital through a motion of censure.