Sánchez ignores the amnesty and sets socioeconomic priorities for the legislature in his first rally as a candidate

He replies to the PP that what "breaks equality" are its pacts with Vox and asks for "prudence and restraint" from Feijóo's party

GRANADA, 7 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has ignored the negotiations for the amnesty of the leaders of the 'procés' in the first meeting that he has offered after receiving the order from the King to try to be invested and has preferred to focus on setting his socioeconomic priorities for the new legislature, among them, the achievement of "full employment".

During his speech at a political event in Granada, the PSOE leader also reiterated that "whoever wants to aspire to govern Spain" has to understand and assume two things: "political pluralism and territorial diversity."

But the bulk of his speech has revolved around his economic, labor and social objectives for the new legislature and making it clear that Spain did not vote on July 23 to repeat the elections but rather gave a mandate to continue working for " "four more years of progress and coexistence within the framework of the Spanish Constitution."

"This is what we are going to do," he guaranteed, before replying to the PP leaders who accuse him of ruining equality due to his potential pacts with independentists and nationalists that "equality is guaranteed by approving what they vote for." always systematically against it in Congress", such as raising the minimum wage, revaluing pensions and approving more economic resources against sexist violence.

In this context, he added that what equality is "broken" and "questioned" is with the municipal and regional pacts of the PP with the "ultra-right." Furthermore, he has asked the right for "measure and prudence" in his statements.

Thus, he has reproached them for saying that "Spain is sinking" just the week in which the community institutions have authorized another 93,000 million euros of European funds, for maintaining that it is "isolated", when Granada has been full of leaders for two days. internationals, or that it is "discredited", when it has just won the 2030 World Cup.

He has also blamed them for warning that "Spain is breaking" when during the last five years "each and every one of the territories of Spain has complied with the Constitution." "And if there is a political party that fails to comply with the Constitution, it is the PP, blocking the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary. Man, some prudence and restraint," he stressed.

"I tell the prophets of the apocalypse that Spain lives together, that Spain advances and that Spain counts more on the international and European stage thanks to the administration of the PSOE," he summarized.

With his sights already set on the future government, which he has assumed he will be able to form, Sánchez has assured that, in addition to consolidating all the advances in rights and freedoms, of this last stage, his goal is to stop being the "lightning red" of unemployment in the European Union and move the current unemployment rate from 12% to 8%, that is, achieve full employment.

Among his proposals for the investiture, he has reiterated his intention to include in the Workers' Statute that every year the minimum wage be 60% of the average salary, as well as that 5,000 million euros be allocated each year to fill the piggy bank. of pensions and "guaranteeing the dignity of retirement".

Housing will also be, he has advanced, a priority axis of his investiture program, since "70% of inequality in our country is caused by the impossibility of accessing" housing, not only but particularly by young people. . "Well, in these coming years, I am committed to making housing what our Constitution says, a right and not a good that is impossible to access for many people in our country," she stated.

And in terms of gender equality, the president has regained his commitment to approve a parity law to guarantee the presence of women in all areas of Spanish society.

Sánchez took advantage of the rally to boast that many of the European leaders who have met these days in Granada, including some conservatives, have congratulated him on the result of the elections, to the extent that it has served "to stop the right." parasitized by the extreme right". According to Sánchez, the message that Spain conveyed to the world with that decision was "resounding, total and a source of pride."

"It has been an exercise of inspiration for many progressives around the world and particularly in Europe who, unfortunately, in recent years have seen the extreme right advance, either by parasitizing the right or because they have displaced the right. of the main positions in the conservative space in each of those nations," he added.

"Winning the elections on July 23 in Spain was essential to unbalance the game of power and therefore the policies in Europe for the next four years. And what is behind that logic and that balance of power? What there is is politics and a conception of society that is either closed or open," he concluded.