Pedro Sánchez defends the State of autonomy and Spain & quot; as is & quot;

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" Spain is not going to break, the Constitution is not going to break, here what is going to break is the blockade of the Government democratically elected by the Spaniards." Thus, without hot cloths, Pedro Sánchez has begun his speech in the investiture debate in the Congress of Deputies.

At 9 in the morning, on a practically festive Saturday, two days before Reyes , parliamentarians have been summoned to try to elect Sánchez as president - the forecast is that on a second vote on Tuesday, January 7 where only more are needed yeses noes- with the support of Unidos Podemos, PNV, Más País, Compromís, Teruel Existe, Nueva Canarias and BNG and the abstention of EH Bildu and ERC.

And of this amalgam is the agreement reached with the independentistas, which includes the creation of a dialogue table between the Generalitat and the State and the commitment of a consultation to the Catalans on the solutions reached, one of the mollar issues of the debate. So much so that the PP has asked for the beginning of its reading "due to its absolute relevance" and has forced Sánchez to begin with a defense of the unity of Spain and the Magna Carta.

Then his intervention has focused on trying to explain why he has opted for this sum to form a government and not for seeking abstention from the PP - in 2016 Mariano Rajoy was elected thanks to the socialists abstaining. According to Sánchez "there was no other parliamentary majority" in a House with 19 political forces, the largest number in the history of democracy. The PSOE, he said, "has won not once but five times." "The Spanish have voted Government not paralysis, all solutions are respectable."

It was, he said, to translate his will into the formation of a new Executive and not in blockade despite "the lack of contribution from the democratic right."

The socialist leader has attributed to this attitude the decision on the pacts he has reached. "They agitate the worst omens about the future of Spain and at the same time refuse to avoid them."

Catalonia, an "inherited crisis"

His reproaches to the PP and Citizens, whom he calls the "democratic right", have not been there. As soon as he got into flour on the need to start overcoming the "Catalan political litigation" the presidential candidate has blamed the popular people for the current situation "for abandoning the political path." Sanchez has defended that he is facing an "inherited crisis" of which, he says, he has already warned. "The feelings cannot be imposed by force," he said after drawing a scheme that has obviated the breakdown of the constitutional order by the independentists and has reduced everything to a sector of Catalonia has a feeling of grievance to the institutions Spaniards and another part of the Catalans who feel "ignored" and "unfairly treated" by their own institutions, while a part of Spanish society, in which Sánchez is included, rejects the "accusations" against Spain of the separatists.

For all this, the future president has indicated, it is necessary to "leave behind the judicial drift that caused so much pain in Catalonia" and resume the political path. "Recommend", he has defined, at the point where mutual grievances began to accumulate. Because, he said, "the solution will not come from one imposing a perception on the other." "The feelings may have more or less rational foundation but they are undeniable."

Sanchez has insisted on what is one of the great news of his intervention and the strategy of the new Coalition Government with United We can: "Recover the path of politics leaving behind the judicialization of the conflict." Although he has not said that this is translated - during the negotiation process with ERC, the Executive has already avoided bringing a resolution of the Parliament to the Constitutional Court that defends self-determination and questions the monarchy - has stated that "the law alone is not enough "and we need an" honest dialogue "protected by the legal framework. It assumes the solution to the crisis - despite the fact that it is actually urged to do so due to the need for the abstention of CKD - ​​"with all the constitutional loyalty and with all the institutional responsibility".

The candidate, who has not given explanations about the promises he has made to Catalan independence workers during the entire negotiation process, has not done so today. Its concretion on the agreement has been limited to citing the creation of the dialogue table to "debate within the constitutional framework and put an end to territorial confrontation." Not a word about further consultation but a defense of the Constitution without ambiguity.

The importance of this matter, after the investor pacts signed with PNV and ERC - the Basque nationalists have been promised legal reforms to fit the plurinational Spain - has overshadowed the description that the still head of the acting Executive has made of his progressive coalition with Pablo Iglesias who, he said, believes he shares the majority of the country.

"Spain, as it is, will be our project, not as some would like it to be." In a clear defense of the regional model that, he stressed, "has meant an improvement in the territorial distribution of income higher than that of the countries around us," Sánchez said that the path "cannot be that of involution but the one of the best, the reform and the update of the system, always guaranteeing the equality of the Spaniards ".

The future president has promised a "United Government," whose hallmarks will be "social justice, defense of public services, freedom and cohesion and territorial dialogue." The development of the measures that will be launched together with United We have been the bulk of his speech but even during this explanation has underlined the character of the PSOE as "Spanish party" and the commitment of the left with Spain.

The first minutes of the plenary session have already provided some of the images that, if Sánchez manages to be elected on Tuesday, will be recurrent in the legislature: that of Iglesias - future social vice president - and the rest of his group standing applauding the acting president and candidate with the socialist deputies.

Although in the last hours the decision of the Central Electoral Board to disable Quim Torra and Oriol Junqueras has added one more dose of adrenaline to the debate -ERC has convened this morning a meeting of its Executive to assess these events and set its final position- neither the PSOE nor Podemos fear that its position varies and does not fulfill the commitment to abstain. At the beginning of the plenary session, JxCat spokeswoman Laura Borràs has assured the media that ERC has transmitted that she does not intend to change the abstention for a negative vote.

The candidate has concluded, after almost two hours of speech, with an appeal to the need to reach agreements and undertake reforms with all political forces: "We do not move more division to the street, that ladies and gentlemen is also patriotism."

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• Pedro Sanchez
• President's Investiture
• PSOE
• Congress of Deputies
• Spain
• Catalonia
• Catalonia independence

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