As other PSOE barons have done in recent times, the former socialist leader Nicolás Redondo has lamented that the Government has allowed itself to be “kidnapped by a fugitive” like the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont during an act called by the Fernando Collective de los Ríos to analyze the results of the general elections. In addition, he has predicted that the legislature that started this Thursday will be one of the “most embarrassing episodes” of modern Spain.
Redondo has harshly charged against the Executive of Pedro Sánchez for having satisfied the claims of the Junts leader to achieve the presidency of Congress. “We have accepted that the arbiter of Spanish politics is a character that oscillates between nineteenth-century Carlism and (Donald) Trump,” he lamented, calling it “inadmissible” to have to depend on “a fugitive politician.”
“The PSOE should know that in politics you cannot do everything that is not a crime”, he has abounded in his opinions, collected by Europa Press, reproaching the modification of the Penal Code in the last legislature. In his opinion, “it is even more intolerable that the Government of Spain allows itself to be kidnapped by a fugitive.”
“The agreement of all the anti-constitutional parties has worked at the table of Congress and will work for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez”, the one who was general secretary of the PSOE in the Basque Country between 1997 and 2002 has emphatically affirmed. For Redondo, everything points to that the current legislature “will be placed on the list of the most embarrassing episodes in our modern history.”
The former socialist leader has also described what happened on Thursday as “regrettable.” And he has added: “it brings us back to the backward Spain, with its tambourine, which the rest of the Europeans saw for a long time as an anomaly.” Redondo has shown his indignation with “the so-called ‘progressives’ today,” which, in his opinion, “have brought us back to the 19th century.”
In this sense, he has defended that “the PSOE does not represent the left that Spain needs” since they have positioned themselves “with those who frequently in our history frustrated the illusions of progress of the Spaniards, because in the 19th century it was Carlism and today it is a selfish, xenophobic and anti-European nationalist fundamentalism”.
Thus, he has defended that “what would allow the Spanish to sleep peacefully would be for the national parties to reach agreements, preventing early elections and avoiding the ignominy of depending on a fugitive.”
“Equality, freedom on the part of Spanish citizens, respect for the law and democratic uses, are suspended in Spain,” Redondo stated emphatically. “The minimum concord for a democracy to work, dissolved. The possibility of a reformist policy, which makes Spain a country capable of facing the future, abolished.”
However, he has claimed that this is not the time to lament but to “vindicate the values ??of the Transition and, for many citizens, those of a reformist, institutional, national left that looks to the future.”
