Sánchez claims "with more force than ever" to "stop" PP and Vox on 23J and for Spain to "advance four more years"

TWO SISTERS (SEVILLE), June 18 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PSOE and president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has asserted this Sunday that he is with "more strength and desire than ever" to "win" the next general elections on July 23 and to "stop the right and the extreme right", in reference to PP and Vox, and thus guarantee that Spain "advances four more years and does not go back five, ten or forty years".

"That is what we are deciding" in the next general elections, Pedro Sánchez has proclaimed in his first major act of the pre-campaign of the elections on July 23, which he has held in the municipal booth of the Dos Hermanas fairgrounds (Seville) before some 3,500 people, according to calculations by the socialist organization.

In a historic electoral stronghold for the PSOE in Andalusia, Pedro Sánchez has been supported in this act, among others, by the PSOE Deputy Secretary General and Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero -- who heads the socialist list for Congress for Seville--; the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán; the spokesperson for the PSOE federal executive, Pilar Alegría, and the Minister for Territorial Policy and government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez.

The general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espadas, and the mayor of Dos Hermanas, Francisco Rodríguez, who was the one who opened the turn of interventions in this act one day after taking the command to face his second mandate as Nazarene alderman thanks to the new absolute majority that the PSOE achieved on May 28 in this town where the Socialists have been ruling uninterruptedly since 1983.

Pedro Sánchez has warned that the next general elections are not just another election or a "mere contest" between parties, but that in them "we are deciding whether Spain advances four more years or goes back five, ten or four years", and for this reason He has transferred to the socialists "the honor and pride of the responsibility of knowing that the victory of the PSOE will be what will make Spain advance four more years and not go back" with a hypothetical government of PP and Vox.

Along these lines, the PSOE leader has called on his party to be "the first progressive political force capable of stopping the right and extreme right in Europe on July 23." "Let's show the world and Europe that they are not stopping us, and that we are going to stop the right and the ultra-right," Pedro Sánchez proclaimed.

"If progressive Spain mobilizes and is going to vote on July 23, and concentrates all its votes in the PSOE, we will guarantee that Spain continues to grow for four more years", and "we will avoid the mess of suffering a government of (Alberto Núñez ) Feijóo and (Santiago) Abascal", insisted Pedro Sánchez, who has attributed to his party the "non-transferable responsibility" of winning the next elections.

The President of the Government has reviewed some of the measures of his government in a few years that "have not been easy" due to circumstances such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and that have been "hard for many families", according to has had an impact, and has highlighted that, despite this, Spain currently has almost 21 million affiliates to Social Security and with its temporary rates in work contracts "lower in the historical series", as it has claimed.

Along these lines, he has proclaimed that his government has created "employment like never before" while it has carried out "social policy", and has defended that the PSOE has "the best project" and the "best team" when "facing no there is neither one nor the other."

Sánchez has called on the Socialists to "continue fighting and continue to guarantee that Spain advances for four more years in the economy, in social rights, in welfare policies, because it has cost us a lot during these last five years to achieve what we have achieved", has abounded , and has defended that his government needs "four more years" to "consolidate equal opportunities" through education, and so that the right and the extreme right "do not trample" the educational model that his executive is promoting "if they arrive to the government" PP and Vox.

Sánchez has vindicated the "social dialogue" of his Government, the increase in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), the latest labor reform and the revaluation of pensions according to the CPI after "reconstructing the 'Toledo pact'", and has insisted on defend the need for these advances "not to be trampled on by the right and the ultra-right from the Government".

For this reason, it has had an impact on asking the socialist militancy to "guarantee that this government continues for four more years" with "progressive policies for the benefit of the social majority and the middle class and workers of our country", and has charged against the Right-wing opposition work that "has only blocked and been disloyal at the most critical moment in the democratic history of our country, with a pandemic" involved, as he has denounced.

In addition, he has warned that if the PP returns to the Government and does so hand in hand with Vox, it is already known what they will do, because when the 'popular' governed they approved "a labor counter-reform that opened the doors wide to the precariousness and salary devaluation", as he has criticized.

THAT THE SOCIALISTS GO TO "VOTE EN MASS" ON 23J

Sánchez has called on the Socialists to "go out and vote en masse on July 23, with pride in what has been done, with awareness of the transformative power of what has been achieved and with the conviction" that the PSOE is going to "win" the general elections and "it will once again be the first political force" in Spain.

The PSOE leader has also asserted that "it is worth all the effort" of his five years as Prime Minister, "the five most difficult years of the last 45 in the history" of Spain, because "we are building the Spain they deserve our children, the one that our grandparents and our parents dreamed of", a Spain "in which women grow up free, equal and safe", and in which "if you are unlucky enough to become unemployed, to close the business for a economic crisis or if you or any of your loved ones fall ill, know that there is a welfare state that is behind you to protect you", he added.

It is "the best Spain that claims and endorses the best attributes of Spanish society", which are "solidarity and commitment to peace", for "the fight against inequality" or for making the "great drama" of the "climate emergency" a "source of opportunities and reindustrialization for our country", added the socialist leader.

Sánchez concluded his speech by contrasting the call of the PP to "repeal" the 'sanchismo' with that of the Socialists to "advance", and encouraging the Socialists to go out and "win on July 23".

At one point in his speech, the leader of the PSOE was interrupted by the shouts of some people who carried signs demanding the group of officials of the administration of Justice, currently on strike, who exclaimed that Justice is "stopped", and to whose protest the public attending the rally booed them and the president responded by asking that the "intolerants" be allowed to manifest themselves as such. "We to work", Sánchez has settled while security personnel evicted the protagonists of the protest.