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In keeping with the high emotional intensity that has presided over the 40th Federal Congress of the PSOE, the closing day opened with a tribute to Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, former Secretary General and former Vice President of the Government, who died in 2019 at the age of 67.

It was a moment that moved the more than nine thousand people that the Socialists summoned at the Valencia Fair.

The tribute included a video recalling his figure, and some of his most important interventions, the discovery of a bust of the deceased leader and some serene and sincere words from

Pilar Goya

, Rubalcaba's widow.

The images included the praise of the former president of the PP Congress,

Jesús Posada

, to "a great figure of parliamentarism" and some of the most passionate phrases with which Rubalcaba referred to his pride in belonging to the PSOE.

"I am a militant socialist, and that is never left."

"The PSOE owes me nothing, I owe everything to the PSOE."

Ximo Puig, the president of the 40th Federal Congress, defined the deceased former leader as an "honest, brave, audacious, decent and humble great teacher."

Rubalcaba's widow, moved but serene, thanked the affection and affection that she has felt from the PSOE and Spanish society since the death of her husband.

"He could have chosen something else, but he chose the difficult path of politics. He never regretted it. The PSOE was his home and you his people," said Pilar Goya.

She has also been a member of the PSOE for decades - "I am also here in my house and with my people" - and recalled some of her husband's words about the values ​​that socialists defend, such as equality - that no one is more than nobody-, freedom and the rights of people.

Pilar Goya recalled the special emotion with which they experienced the end of ETA, after the "loss of so many friends", and quoting her husband proclaimed that "we socialists are more necessary than ever."

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