The PSOE launches the campaign for the 40th anniversary of the victory with a replica of the poster from González's first campaign

Sánchez dedicates part of the exhibition to his anti-crisis measures and the social advances of the socialist governments

MADRID, 17 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PSOE today began the acts of the 40th anniversary of the socialist victory with a replica of the poster that Felipe González used in the 1977 election campaign. This replica was seen at the opening of the exhibition that took place today in Madrid Ferraz Street headquarters, with the assistance of Felipe González, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Pedro Sánchez.

The author of that poster was the well-known illustrator José Ramón Sánchez, father of the current film director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, who made the electoral posters for the PSOE in the 1977 and 1979 elections.

In the poster that concerns us, you could see a drawing of Felipe González in the center, along with a farmer, an employee in a suit, a construction worker and a factory worker. All of them joined by hands on each other's shoulders.

Behind them was a landscape of smoking factories, city skyscrapers, and countryside, all shrouded in sun through clouds. The legend was: "Vota PSOE", with the fist and the rose in the middle of the two words.

The PSOE has wanted to repeat this iconography 40 years later and the inaugural poster of the exhibition that celebrates that first socialist triumph, which took place on October 28, 1982, includes Felipe González in the center, but with a young appearance, and Zapatero and Pedro Sánchez to the left and right, also intertwined with their hands on their shoulders.

The legend on this occasion is "40 years of democracy. 1982-2022. 40 years of progress." The smoke from the factories and buildings has disappeared from the image and only a landscape with the sea in the background and the sun between the clouds appears.

In the aforementioned exhibition, several panels can be seen in which the social measures that have been adopted by the various socialist governments in different areas are recounted: freedom, equality, education, health, childhood, pensions or social services.

Thus, the Abortion Law; the Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence; the Law that allows same-sex marriage; effective equality between men and women; child protection; that of the right to Education; the General Health Law; the universality of pensions or the Dependency Law, among others.

Among these measures, those adopted by the current Government of Pedro Sánchez stand out in a full panel, such as the 15 percent increase in the Minimum Vital Income; the tax on the bank with which it is intended to raise an additional 1,500 million; the reduction of urban and metropolitan transport; the reduction of VAT on energy; social protection for low incomes; the increase in Vocational Training places; the rise of the SMI to 1,000 euros or the limitation of rent increases to 2 percent.

All this surrounded by the photos of all the general secretaries that the party has had, of all the governments that they have presided over and of the different logos that the PSOE has worn.

Another of the panels recounts the presence of "Spain in Europe and in the world" and includes the photograph of Felipe González signing Spain's entry into the European Economic Community in 1985 and a wide range of photos of Pedro Sánchez at the recent summit of the NATO held in Madrid and his intervention in the United Nations, as well as other photographs of Felipe González also in the UN, in the EU and with world leaders.