Pilar Alegría accuses the opposition of political tension and asks to lower the decibels so as not to be a burden

MADRID, 30 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, today accused the opposition of being to blame for the political tension and has asked them to "lower the decibels" so as not to be a burden.

This was stated in the Europa Press Informative Breakfasts, where he recalled the data from a CIS survey from a few days ago in which it is reflected that 90.4 percent of Spaniards consider it important to reduce political tension in Spain.

The minister considers this data relevant also because, according to the aforementioned survey, 62.6 percent of citizens believe that politicians are the ones who contribute most to the tension and 92.2 percent believe that the parties should achieve agreements on important issues of general interest.

For this reason, he believes that any analysis of the political situation must begin by addressing the tense situation that, in his opinion, "encourages the most radical discourses, takes away the voice of the social majority and makes agreements between parties of different persuasion almost impossible." ".

Therefore, it constitutes, in the opinion of the minister, a "ballast" for any social and economic progress. Thus, she believes that those who allow themselves to be carried away by tension do so believing that the defense of their principles is unnegotiable, but she warns that democracy does not work like that.

In this sense, he considers that reducing tension is everyone's responsibility and has opted to "lower the decibels, recover respect and good manners", and concentrate on trying to "solve people's problems".

In fact, he has given the example of German Chancellor Willy Brandt when, as mayor of Berlin divided by the wall, he promoted agreements with the GDR so that families "cruelly and suddenly separated could, at least, reunite during Christmas."

Brandt, as he recalled, applied the maxim that "it is better to take small steps than not to take any" and that politics is there to solve people's problems, without this implying the renunciation of the principles of the parties in dispute.

However, he has warned that this is not the principle that the opposition in Spain has applied, which he has accused of "democratic corruption" for understanding that it has not accepted "that there is no alternative parliamentary majority to the one articulated by Pedro Sánchez ".

"Democratic corruption - he specified - is not accepting the electoral results and disqualifying as illegitimate any government that is not his own" or also, he added, "crossing out as illegitimate the legitimate support of the representatives freely elected by the vote of the citizens" .

Pilar Alegría has also added that the opposition has proclaimed from minute one of the Legislature that it was an illegitimate government. Something that she has described as an exclusive position and little respect for the democratic system and an "inexhaustible source of tension" that does not contribute much to the territorial cohesion of our country.

"In short, they do not assume the democratic result because they understand that power is theirs alone in a patrimonial vision of democracy, the Constitution and its institutions," he added. And he made it clear that the most radical and virulent proclamations do not come precisely from the partners parliamentarians of the Government, but on the other side of the hemicycle.

On the contrary, he has said that the Government, on the other hand, has always opted for dialogue, negotiation and agreement. "Although it has not always been well understood," she has pointed out.

He considers that it must be recognized that "the balance of the Government has some merit" to be a minority Government, a coalition between two parties "which is always more difficult to manage" and that has had to face a pandemic, a global crisis of supplies, several climatic catastrophes and the consequences of a war in Europe.

Thus, the minister has reviewed the achievements of the Executive despite the "stormy panorama" such as the recovery of employment with twenty million contributors for the first time in Social Security and an unemployment rate that has not been seen since 2008 ; employment growth thanks to the labor reform; increase in the SMI; the implementation of the Minimum Vital Income; the revaluation of pensions; the shock plan to mitigate the effects of the rise in fuel or the achievement of the endorsement of Brussels to be able to lower the price of electricity.

For the minister, accepting reality -- "that is, the territorial and political plurality of Spain and the fragmentation of the party map" -- is a step that leads "inexorably to dialogue as a fundamental tool of politics" and has called for dedicating the energies to repair, care for and protect it.

He believes that despite the difficulties, Spain has a Government that responds to people's problems. In this context he has invited us to consider the distance, which in his opinion is "enormous" between the "real events and those black paintings with which some describe the situation and that would frighten Goya himself".

Pilar Alegría concluded by affirming that she feels proud to belong to Pedro Sánchez's Executive, noting that she was already optimistic before becoming minister. And joking, she has pointed out that "calling yourself Alegría conditions you before life".