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The former Prime Minister, Felipe González, has called for "dialogue and permanent understanding" between political leaders, with the Autonomous Communities and in society. This has been stated in the Onda Cero microphones before which he has urged to demonstrate "political capacity to agree and undertake an agreed fight against the pandemic and to find a socio-economic solution" to the crisis.

If this were the case, there would be wickerwork, he explained, in order to achieve a common push like the one that was achieved, overcoming distances and different contexts, in 1977 when the Pacts of La Moncloa were signed to safeguard the transition to democracy and overcome the serious economic crisis.

"Now," he said, "we need the will to do it. We need the political leaders to agree by giving up positions. It is not about reaching a closed pact, it is about an attitude of negotiation, of dialogue."

Gonzalez has insisted that in this attitude of understanding "no one should be underestimated, nor the response capacity of companies, nor of the CCAA, nor of the City Councils."

The former president has made a strong defense of the willingness of the business world to collaborate. "We cannot do without companies," he said in the face of speeches that affect the need to nationalize and nationalize economic activity. "Whoever accuses them, who despises them for ideological reasons or because of rancor is making a serious mistake," he stressed.

In his opinion, "those who make speeches loaded with ideology are the same ones who criticize the Pacts of La Moncloa and the constitutional pact that has provided us with 40 years of prosperity."

González has opted to strengthen the national health system and has emphasized that for that "they need resources and taxes, great economic activity and cooperation with the private sector." "We need a State", he said, "that is not greasy but agile and with muscle". "The debate", he stressed, "is not the dimension of the State" but its effectiveness in responding to crises like the current one. "We need a state that is fat-free but bone-free."

And he added: "Those who propose that taxes are generally lowered and at the same time increase public spending and indebtedness are not right, and those who believe that the State would do better than the private sector in any matter, do not have either reason".

For this reason, to try to activate the spirit of democratic agreement, he has advocated maintaining "a functioning Parliament, that the connection with the Autonomous Communities functions, that social dialogue works to reach agreements that", he warned, "are not going to be permanent, they are not going to be like the Moncloa Pacts, but they are going to have to change because the horizon is very uncertain. "

In his opinion, "there is no explanation that can be held so that non-face-to-face parliamentary life does not start." González advocates "normalizing parliamentary life in all its aspects of control, debate and legislative initiative".

He has also been "surprised" by the attitude of a government that has such a hard time assuming that it has made mistakes. "It would be nothing more than an exercise in humility in the face of an unknown challenge" and he has had words of praise for the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínes Almeida "for putting himself at the helm, at the foot of the canyon and having the humility to count on others." He, Felipe González, has not been consulted by anyone from the coalition government.

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