Alegría says that the Government is aware of the "anger and uncertainty" due to Covid and the war

He will exercise his position in the PSOE with "forcefulness when it comes to denouncing the lies and insults of the opposition"

BARCELONA, July 24. (EUROPEAN PRESS) -

The new spokesperson for the PSOE and Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, has assured that the Government is "perfectly aware of this situation of anger and uncertainty" of citizens after the Covid-19 pandemic and due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

In an interview in the newspaper 'El Periódico' this Sunday, collected by Europa Press, he detailed that the NATO summit and the debate on the state of the nation have shown that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is also "aware of the pissed off citizens".

On the other hand, she has assured that being the new spokesperson for the PSOE is an honor and an enormous privilege that she assumes after 23 years as a member of the party, and defends that the colleagues who have preceded her and she herself try to give their best and contribute their " grain of sand for the benefit of this project and party".

He has detailed that the general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, asked him to carry out the position with clarity, tenacity, from closeness and in a pedagogical way, but also with "forcefulness when denouncing the lies and insults of the opposition" .

Although he has considered that on occasions the Government has lacked knowing how to explain the content of some decisions or communicate them in a clearer and more pedagogical way, he has warned that this has been a difficult legislature and that the Government and the PSOE are not going to find "in the catastrophism to which some, like the PP", want to lead them, according to her.

For Alegría, the measures proposed by the Government from the beginning of the legislature and the Covid-19 pandemic "have only had one objective, which is to protect ordinary people and put measures in place to generate that social shield."

"After the 2008 crisis, the recipes were not the same, and this must be explained and remembered," stressed Alegría, who said that governing is not easy because it involves taking risks and making decisions, and assures that what the Government will not do in no case is it to remain immobile in the face of difficulties.

Asked if the discrepancies within the government demobilize the left, she responded by recalling that this is the first coalition government in all of democratic history, so "it is possible that there will be a debate, and it is lawful, logical and even healthy".

Regarding Spanish in the classrooms of Catalonia, he highlighted the luck he considers of young people who are being educated in autonomous communities with a co-official language, although he stressed the importance of complying with "the sentences in this country, and more so when they are sentences firm".

"It is clear that the PP has also used this issue, this identity issue, to divide us, to rile up," he has maintained, and has called it outrageous that language is used, he says, as a missile to divide society.

"It is still curious that the criticism made by the PP on the issue of language is concentrated in Catalonia, in Valencia, the Balearic Islands or Euskadi. And what happens, that in Galicia it is not? It is a coincidence that it is the only autonomous community where governs the PP", he added.