Sánchez praises Podemos and the "great team" of the coalition a day after they voted differently from the PSOE

He defends that there is still "much to be done" in a speech plagued with mentions of the "progressive coalition government"

MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, praised his partners from United We Can and the coalition government this Thursday, which he has defined as a "great team", one day after the minority partner of the Government avoided supporting an approved bill in the Council of Ministers voting differently from the PSOE.

In his speech during the presentation of the Strategic Project for the Social and Care Economy in La Moncloa, Sánchez dedicated a few minutes at the beginning of his speech to praising the work of all the members of the Executive and made multiple mentions of the "Progressive Coalition Government ".

Thus, he recognized "the collective work of all the ministers" while addressing the numerous members of the Government who were present, among them, the Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, the Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, all of them members of United We Can.

The Chief Executive has expressed his gratitude and "pride" and has described the coalition as a "great team" that is accompanying the Spanish in overcoming the current crisis "despite the difficulties".

Thus, he has indicated that "the progressive coalition government" works "above any adversity and difficulty" that Spanish society is going through and has recounted a series of measures that the Executive has approved throughout the legislature, since the increase from scholarships and pensions to the labor reform, the increase in the minimum wage and the expansion of the minimum vital income.

"We have done a lot but we still have a lot to do," added Sánchez, implying that the legislature is going ahead despite the fact that the coalition was divided for the first time in the vote on a bill.

This Thursday PSOE and United We Can voted in a different direction in the Plenary Session of Congress on a bill approved by the coalition government they share: it is the Audiovisual Law, which was supported by the socialists while the purple ones chose to abstain.

And it is that to date they had differed in the sense of vote in other initiatives, such as proposals not of law or admission to processing of legislative projects at the proposal of the groups, but not of normative texts coming from the Council of Ministers in which feel both parties.