Pedro Sánchez shakes off the internal criticism and turns a deaf ear to the voices inside and outside the PSOE that warn of the seriousness of granting an “amnesty” to the Catalan independence movement as a counterpart to unblocking his investiture with the votes of Junts. The socialist leader has assured that he is “very clear” and that “they can shout, insult or say whatever they want” but that his objective is for there to be a “progressive” government. And to achieve this, he stressed, his intention is to “seek votes even under the stones.” This was stated at an event in Sigüeiro (La Coruña), during the rose festival of the Galician socialists, where Sánchez showed himself convinced of being able to govern four more years despite the high price set by Junts. Without mentioning in any case the “amnesty”, Carles Puigdemont’s main demand to have his decisive seven votes in Congress, Sánchez has disdained the reproaches he is receiving for this hypothetical transfer, saying that they are only responding to the “frustration” of a PP that has lost the elections. “We hear the usual outrage, the usual insults, that we socialists have been breaking up Spain for more than 40 years,” he said. “No, what is not broken is Spain, but the PP, and you will see it when the investiture fails,” he concluded. Sánchez has stressed that Spain “almost broke” in 2017, “when the PP governed” and The unilateral declaration of independence was approved in the Parliament. But now with him, Salvador Illa’s PSC is the force with the most votes in Catalonia. “That’s why I have it very clear. They can shout, insult or say whatever they want, but don’t forget the progressive people. What What the PP and the extreme right intend is for the PSOE not to govern based on the investiture that we propose,” he went into depth. “That is why they demonstrate so that there is not a progressive government, but I am very sorry. The Spaniards have spoken and there will be a progressive government. Of course there will be one!” he stressed with conviction. And to achieve this, Sánchez has assured that he will “look for votes even under the rocks” as soon as Feijóo’s investiture “fails.” In his speech, he shook off criticism that he violates the equality of Spaniards, saying that this It is guaranteed by revaluing pensions, changing working conditions with the labor reform and strengthening health and education. Likewise, he has disdained that the PP distributes constitutionalist cards when it “fails” to comply with the Magna Carta by blocking the CGPJ. In front of a PSOE that complies with the Constitution “from A to Z.” In the chapter criticizing the PP, Sánchez has called the demonstration on the 24th in Madrid “nonsense.” “Gentlemen of the PP, Spain does not break, Spain yawns at the enormous waste of time of Mr. Feijoo’s investiture and his lie,” he fired off. “If this investiture were like a football match, this man would have been given the red card for deliberate waste of time.” Likewise, he assured that Feijóo “is not running to be elected head of government, but rather to be elected head of the opposition.” Taking advantage of the fact that he was in Galicia, he joked about the figure of the PP leader, saying that he thought “that he was more” when he was president of the Xunta. “You have given us a trick,” he said, national politics “is too big for him.” For his part, the general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, has introduced the issue of amnesty implicitly when he has urged Sánchez to make the decisions he creates to govern. “Pedro, do what you have to do,” he said. In addition, he has made reference to internal criticism within the PSOE, such as those publicly expressed by Felipe González or Alfonso Guerra. In a first intervention in Galician, he said that they were people who “had their time” and asked them for “the same respect” that they had for the current general secretary, the party and the federations, who have the “right to write” new pages of history. Then, in Spanish, he said: “Each and every one of us are Felipistas, guerristas, Zapatistas, Pedistas but above all we are socialists. It is what we are. That is why Pedro do what you have to do. In the name of the best of this country, this society that has all its hope placed in you.
Politics Sánchez despises criticism, does not cite the amnesty and takes his inauguration for granted: "Of course there is going to be a progressive government"
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