The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has asked for time this Sunday in the face of the “tricky” opposition that wants to end the Government with “dirty tricks.” “The alternative we have is a xenophobic far-right and a right that goes along with it. The tricksters with their maneuvers, and we, to govern until 2027 and beyond, whatever the Spanish want,” said the socialist leader at the closing of the Congress of Socialist Youth, in Madrid. The socialist leader spoke this way at a moment of maximum pressure against the Executive due to judicial investigations affecting the PSOE and former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Sánchez delivered a speech in which he appealed to the pride of the PSOE and the economic and social results obtained in their eight years of Government.
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“We do not deny the problems, but we also do not deny the Government’s balance sheet,” he stated. “Time gives perspective and then determination (…) Spain would not have been advancing for eight years if the progressive coalition Government and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party had not faced Spain’s problems head-on,” he defended. The Prime Minister emphasized that every time there has been behavior “not appropriate to the values and principles of the socialist party” they have acted “forcefully,” but that, “in the face of slanders,” they will also respond “forcefully.” “What we will not allow is for this tricky opposition to mix one thing with another to try to bring down this progressive coalition Government with their dirty tricks,” he added.
Sánchez spoke this way after another dizzying judicial week in which the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard entered the PSOE headquarters looking for evidence of an alleged plot to disrupt investigations against it and in which details continue to emerge about the investigation for influence peddling against former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who is scheduled to testify before the National Court on June 17 and 18. The Government is receiving pressure from the opposition and Government partners to call elections. This is the first party event he has participated in after the judicial actions against Zapatero and the latest related to Leire Díez.
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“We do not deny the problems, the difficulties. We have faced them, both internal and external. But they should also not deny the reality of a country that is living its best moment in recent years in terms of economic growth, in terms of job creation, in terms of reducing inequality, in terms of rights and freedoms,” the socialist leader emphasized. Among these achievements, he cited the drop in the youth unemployment rate, which was around 36% in 2018, down to 24%; the creation of 400,000 new public vocational training places; or policies so that 8% of the public housing stock is protected by 2030, among others.
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