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Pedro Sánchez and Inés Arrimadas staged tonight a hard face to face that did not let glimpse the slightest space for understanding between the two parties that signed an investiture agreement less than four years ago. From the direction of Citizens had slipped that his spokesman was going to be tough, but that he was also going to reach out to defend his constitutionalist alternative, track 221 , to invest Sanchez with the votes of the PSOE, the PP and Cs. He did, but everything was overshadowed by the bronco rifirrafe that the two leaders maintained.

In what was her premiere as a spokesperson for Citizens after the resignation of Albert Rivera, the deputy for Barcelona accused Pedro Sánchez of having let himself be “humiliated” by the spokesman for Republican Esquerra, when he claimed the amnesty for the “political prisoners”, the self-determination referendum or the "peer-to-peer table" between the governments of Spain and Catalonia.

All "without having refuted any of the things he has said." Arrimadas told him that he prefers to "despise" the constitutionalists and "treat the separatists well and with respect," in addition to agreeing with them in multiple institutions.

Arrimadas denounced that the investiture can come out thanks to "the infamy of the pact with the PNV" and the agreement with ERC. And he made a final appeal from the rostrum to the 120 deputies of the PSOE to find "a brave", "a rebel who changes his vote as Ana Oramas [the deputy of the Canary Coalition who will finally vote against Sanchez]". "Is there not one?"

"The PSOE can simply stay in the PS, the Sanchista party," he continued, "is only one vote, a brave that that does not happen." "A salary and a public office does not justify so much humiliation," he exclaimed. «Why do you despise constitutionalist voters and treat separatists so well? Why?"

Arrimadas assured Sánchez that the photo of the pact between the leader of the PSOE and Pablo Iglesias meant "the embrace of two defeated fighters who embrace so as not to fall," because both "lost a trickle of votes," he said between the laughter and spears of the socialist deputies. "Yes, we do too, but you do too," he replied.

The spokeswoman for Cs warned that with the "populist" Government of the PSOE and Podemos, "Spain will be more impoverished, more divided by territories and more divided with trenches of the past; besides much more weakened in their institutions ».

After his words, Pedro Sánchez rose to the rostrum and had no mercy with a party in crisis that comes from losing 47 seats in Congress to do, he said, "faithful follow-up of the extreme right and the PP" in a kind of "coalition of the apocalypse".

Ironically, Sanchez described as "reckless" that Citizens "give lessons of electoral results to the PSOE, which won the elections five times last year."

The socialist leader insisted that Arrimadas must "reflect" on "the causes of the debacle", which was due, in his opinion, to "his position of blockade, to his pacts with the right and the extreme right" and to "his futility" .

"If ERC's support is as scary as what you say, why don't you vote for us and make it unnecessary?" He said, after telling him that he is willing to talk about the conditions that Cs put him to support his investiture.

Sanchez mainly affected "the futility" of a Citizen "installed in the tremendismo" and that "always agrees with the right and the extreme right". "What good is a center party that does what the right and the extreme right do?" He said, "not at all," he replied, "and that is what your former voters think."

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