The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, addressed a letter this Saturday to the membership of his party in which, as he did on Wednesday after the Council of Ministers, he summarizes his balance for the year and talks about social polarization. but any responsibility for it is disclaimed.
Sánchez speaks of “a year of challenges” that ends “in the best way” with “a progressive coalition government led by the PSOE” that he defines as a “guarantee that there will be no setbacks in the rights won with so much effort by the Spanish society”.
On the other hand, for the socialist leader the only negative moments of the year that deserve to be highlighted avoid 28-M and have to do only with 23-J and “the intransigent and angry response with which the extreme right and the right accepted the result electoral and the continuity of the progressive project”. “The proliferation of insults and the intolerable harassment experienced at the doors of our town homes,” he details.
Although Sánchez recognizes that there is a lot of talk about “polarization”, and despite having focused his investiture speech on boasting about having built a “wall” with the Popular Party and Vox, he dumps all responsibility on the opposition.
“This polarization is not symmetrical,” Sánchez defends in his letter to socialist militants. “On one side, insults are uttered, on the other they are received; on one side, the siege is promoted, on the other we see ourselves besieged,” he argues, while thanking the “serene” response to these protests. “Coexistence depends more than ever on us, on a Socialist Party that does not allow itself to be dragged down the slope of expletives and intransigence,” defends Sánchez.
In a veiled reference to the amnesty and concessions to nationalists and independence supporters in exchange for the investiture, Sánchez refers to the Constitution as “a space for coexistence and welcome, even for those who are suspicious of the Constitution itself.”
After bragging about economic policy, one day after taking over from Nadia Calviño by appointing Carlos Cuerpo as Minister of Economy and promoting María Jesús Montero to the first vice presidency, Sánchez predicts a 2024 that “will see peace arrive in so many places in the world needy of it.”