The PSOE says that the photo of Sánchez with Bildu responds to the 23J mandate and that the PP "has not understood anything"

Gómez Besteiro criticizes the permanent "mobilization" against the Government and emphasizes that the "great demonstration" was the elections

MADRID, 14 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

This Saturday, the PSOE justified the photo of the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with the parliamentary spokespersons of Bildu, an image that, as explained by the socialist deputy José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, responds to the "mandate" that emerged from the polls on last March 23rd. From his point of view, the fact that the PP has spoken of a "photo of shame" shows that Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party "has not understood anything."

This is what Gómez Besteiro said in an interview with the 'Parlamento' program on Radio Nacional, collected by Europa Press, in which he described it as "surprising" that the spokesperson for the Popular Group, Cuca Gamarra, also spoke of a "black day for democracy." " to disqualify that first meeting between Sánchez and the representatives of the Abertzale coalition.

For the Galician socialist, the fact that the PP uses these terms "marks a little the dynamics" of a party, which, in his opinion, "has not understood anything." In this context, he has defended that Bildu is "a parliamentary group that participates in the Cortes" and, therefore, "with which we must also speak", because "that is how the citizens have wanted it."

"It is the reflection of the mandate of the citizens in the elections of July 23, which is the mandate to respect a new framework, which is the framework of plurality, the framework of dialogue and coexistence, and the framework of agreeing to move forward "explained the candidate for the primaries to take over the leadership of the PSdG.

From their point of view, people made it clear in the elections that they do not want "a right-wing and far-right government" but rather what they expect is an Executive "around what is plural and diverse Spain", which is "chaired by dialogue" and bet "on coexistence definitively.

In this sense, he considers it "a little absurd to discuss what the citizens said on July 23." "But well, on this path that the Popular Party is following, we don't really know where," he lamented, censuring the "mobilization" that, from his point of view, Feijóo's party is "systematically" promoting.

"Those mobilizations that they do in the street, I believe, are not understanding what the great mobilization that the elections were was. There is nothing more deeply democratic, nor is there any mobilization comparable to that of the voters on July 23," he said. abundant.

Goméz Besteiro also frames in this reaction of the PP the convocation next week of the General Commission of Autonomous Communities in the Senate, where the 'popular' have an absolute majority. Asked if the regional presidents of the PSOE should attend that meeting, he refused to comment. "They will know perfectly well what they have to do," he said.

This meeting will take place in the week in which the teams in charge of the second phase of the negotiations for the investiture will begin to meet, of which Gómez Besteiro is one of the representatives of the PSOE.

Asked if they already take the support of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) for granted, the deputy admitted that "nothing can ever be taken for granted" and recalled that his party's intention is to close a legislative agreement to "continue with the advanced and progressive policies of recent years" and that, he highlighted, go beyond "issues related to nationalisms."

Regarding whether a date for the investiture debate could be set next week, Gómez Besteiro said "hopefully", but that it is impossible to anticipate anything in that regard. "We will see how the negotiations develop." "We have to make them flow through a fluid channel and that will determine whether that is possible or not, the important thing is that the negotiations take place," he concluded.