2023-11-15 16:40:01
On the first day of the investiture debate of which Pedro Sanchez The PSOE candidate will be named president of the government of Spain, as planned. defended this Wednesday the amnesty that will be granted to the Catalan independence movement. He also attacked the right-wing of his country and dedicated a chapter to the Argentine libertarian candidate Javier Milei, whom he described as “reactionary.”
“In the name of Spain, we are going to grant an amnesty to the people prosecuted for process (independence process in Catalonia),” Sánchez said about the pact he sealed with the separatist parties in exchange for their support for his re-election.
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“The amnesty that we propose is absolutely legal and falls within the Constitution,” he justified.
“The amnesty that we propose It is absolutely legal and falls within the Constitution“, justified the acting president about the agreement that generates the most controversy in Spanish society.
A good part of Spain has been mobilizing in the streets for more than ten days against the pact that the PSOE made with the separatists in exchange for adding the votes that Sánchez needs to be sworn in as president again.
With the amnesty and other concessions granted to the Catalan, Basque and Galician parties, Pedro Sánchez It has 179 votes in favor, three more than the absolute majority that represents half plus one of the 350 seats that make up the Congress of Deputies.
Against Vox, the PP and Milei
In his speech, Sánchez took aim at the Popular Party and against Vox, whom he considered “the retrograde right.”
And in two moments of his parliamentmentioned the candidate for the Argentine presidency, Javier Milei.
Sánchez referred to “the traditional Argentine right, overwhelmed by the delirious reactionary discourse of Mercy”.
And, later, he criticized him again: “These days many things have been proclaimed in the streets of our country, but we have heard a far-right leader in another part of the world, in Argentina, say the following: ‘Social justice is an aberration and is unjust because it implies unequal treatment under the law’ -he quoted, according to him, Milei-. Something that here, in Spain, we are cured of horror because it does not surprise us.”
“This coalition government that I represent does not consider social justice an aberration -Sánchez retorted-. On the contrary. We consider it the very condition of life in society.”
The popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, smile during Sánchez’s intervention. Photo: EFE
“The intellectual leader of the Popular Party, Mrs. (Isabel Díaz) Ayuso (president of the Community of Madrid), had already said it a few months before when she stated that social justice is an invention of the left to promote the culture of envy. “added the PSOE candidate.
And he ironically commented on the support for Javier Milei that former Spanish president Mariano Rajoy, of the PP, expressed a few days ago: “The Argentine ultra-right, by the way, supported by the conservative right. We have to make Mr. Rajoy look at it, who supports the candidate Milei for the presidency of Argentina,” he sarcastically exhorted the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who was looking at him from his bench.
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