“The relevant thing, the important thing about yesterday’s agreement, is that we have the investiture getting closer and closer. We are moving forward, without pause, to comply with the mandate of the citizens, which consisted of there not being a Government of Feijóo and Abascal, which which fortunately we have avoided; that there is no electoral repetition; and that policies of stability, coexistence and progress continue to be implemented. This is the message, more than festive and optimistic, that the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, launched this Wednesday in Brussels, 24 hours after presenting, together with Vice President Yolanda Díaz, the agreement between PSOE and Sumar for an investiture. .
Sánchez has closed the numerically most relevant part, but also one of the easiest and about which there were not many doubts. The complicated part comes now and that’s why it doesn’t matter who asks him, how or how many times, the president castles and closes his mouth to say nothing. He avoids the word amnesty, avoids mentioning specific groups or leaders and trusts everything to the good pace that he believes the process is taking in order to form an Executive “sooner rather than later.”
“This agreement yesterday obeys three objectives of the legislature. The first is stability, and we have given political stability to the country when it needed it, with a pandemic and the consequences of Putin’s war. The second objective is progress policies , and the third, coexistence policies. We have faced an inherited situation, the greatest constitutional crisis in the recent history of Spain, and we are in the line of continuing to build coexistence,” he said in the most direct reference, within from the circumlocutions, to the negotiation with ERC and Junts to achieve their support.
“The agreements, when they are signed and an agreement is reached, will be public, all Spaniards will know about it, as we have done with Sumar (…) we are going to explain everything, all the policies. I will show my face, I will not “I hide, I roll up my sleeves and face the problems inherited from previous administrations,” added the president from Brussels, where this week he is participating in the Tripartite Social Summit, precisely together with Yolanda Díaz, and in a European Council on Thursday and Friday.
“I want, with pride, to show my gratitude to the PSOE and Sumar, because this represents the social majority of the country. Whatever they have voted for and wherever they have voted, wherever they live, a large majority of Spaniards feel represented in the policies of the agreement”, he has ventured to say.
Asked several times about his position on the amnesty at this time, the president has put himself in profile. He has referred again and again to the agreement with Sumar and has resolved by saying that “from there, with the rest of the political forces, what I have said from the beginning: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. The method is the dialogue and the framework, the Constitution”.
Given the doubts generated, the acting president and candidate has stated that the Spanish can have “guarantees” that he will respect these three axes, especially the legal limits. “It is striking that the one who reproaches is the one who has not complied with the Constitution for 5 years, the PP,” he pointed out in reference to the renewal of the CGPJ. “But having heard these days that if there is a government of mine for four years there will no longer be Spaniards… that tremendousness, that level of insults and disqualifications, I don’t know if they can endure it,” he concluded.
The leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will also come to Brussels this Thursday. If two of the vice presidents were present on Wednesday, Teresa Ribera and the aforementioned Yolanda Díaz, tomorrow the popular leader will travel to participate in the usual previous meeting of his European political family before the European Councils.