Leaders, militants and sympathizers of the Socialist Party of Spain (PSOE) They closed ranks this Saturday around the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezand they asked him not to abandon his position at the head of the Executive, a possibility that the president has been reflecting on for several days and that he will clear next Monday.
to the cry of «Peter, stay» y “democracy yes, fascism no”According to the Government Delegation in Madrid, some 12,500 people, arriving from different areas of the country, gathered around the headquarters of the training in the Spanish capital coinciding with the celebration of its Federal Committee, the highest body between congresses, converted this time at a meeting to support the president.
Those gathered followed the Committee from the street, open to the public for the first time and broadcast live on two large screens, in which national and regional socialist leaders intervened to support Sánchez, after he announced last Wednesday that he would He was going to give a period of five days to consider whether or not it is worth continuing in the position.
The announcement by the President of the Government caught even the members of his cabinet by surprise and came after a Madrid court accepted for processing a complaint filed against his wife, Begoña Gomezfor alleged influence peddling.
The complainant is the self-proclaimed “union” Clean handsfar-right, whose general secretary, Miguel Bernardadmitted shortly after that his action was based on journalistic information, for whose veracity or not, he said, those who published it will be responsible..
«Peter, stay»
Within the Committee, the first to speak was the first vice president of the Spanish Government and number two of the Socialist Party, Maria Jesus Monterowho asked the Chief Executive to move forward and reminded him that “it is worth it for the good guys to win.”
“Pedro, stay,” “president, stay,” he said emphatically.
He also spoke, among others, Teresa Riberathird vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, who was ratified at the meeting as the headliner for the European elections on June 9.
Ribera defended the legitimacy of the Sánchez Government in the face of the disqualifications received from the right and the extreme right: «Pedro, it’s worth it, stay, we count on you for the great challenges that we have to overcome together».
During a recess of the Committee, several of its members went out into the street and approached the congregation, who received them with applause and shouts of “Pedro stays.”
From Catalonia, where he participated in an electoral event for the regional elections of May 12, the former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero He also called on the Democrats to support Sánchez, giving him “continuous, systematic and mobilizing support.”
The opposition calls for his resignation
Faced with socialist support for Sánchez, the conservative Popular Party (PP) This Saturday, it launched the “In Legitimate Correspondence” initiative, which invites all citizens to respond to the letter from the President of the Government to convey the real problems that Spaniards face in their daily lives.
In addition to requesting citizen collaboration through social networks, the PP makes available an email address to send the letters that the party will send to Sánchez once they have been collected, reported the formation led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Own Nunez Feijóo Today he invited the President of the Government to leave office, after having shown an “authoritarian tic” that had not been seen in Spain “since Franco.”
«If you want to leave, leave, there is no problem. Yes, in total, you have two possibilities: either you leave now or we will make you leave at the polls, with more difference than in July 2023,” he said in an intervention in the Catalan electoral campaign.
For the leader of the PP, “Sanchez’s ‘show’ these days is inappropriate for a European leader” and “the most serious thing is not the adolescent tantrum he is having, it is not the international embarrassment to which he has subjected” the Spaniards, but “the authoritarian tics of the Government, his party and the president.” EFE (I)