In his first electoral rally in Madrid, in the great socialist bastion in the south of the region, Fuenlabrada, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has set himself the objective of mobilizing especially two sectors of the population whom Moncloa, with his roadmap, has marked as priorities in recent months: the young and the old. The two extremes of the population pyramid are those that the socialist leader has sought to capitalize on in his speech.

Because, coinciding with the day of the book and with a visit to a bookstore in the town, Sánchez has started his intervention at the Tomás y Valiente Art Center citing the bonus of 400 euros for cultural spending of young people. According to the president, this bonus is "empowering" that population group that "often feel alienated from the political debate when they read the written press and approach the news." "It is important and relevant that with public resources they are aware that they have the ability to decide," he said.

But cultural aid is not the only government action that the socialist leader has waved towards young people, a group where the PSOE suffers electorally. Also the housing policy, as Moncloa has been doing all week with the approval of the Housing Law and the announcement of the construction of an ICO line to build 43,000 social rental homes and the delivery of 50,000 homes of the Sareb, have appeared in his speech. "The flats that the right bought to rescue the banks in the previous economic crisis are going to be returned to the citizens and in particular to the young people of our country," said the president, who has described as "intolerable" the age of emancipation of Spaniards compared to other European countries.

"The right considers housing a luxury good and we a basic necessity," said Sánchez, who has accused the PP of causing "speculation, corruption and the ruin of many families when the real estate bubble burst" and added that "his economic miracle ended with everyone in jail." "We are not going to talk about miracles or that Spain is going well, but we are going to say loud and clear that the PSOE manages the economy much better than the PP because we defend the interest of the majority and not of a privileged few," he pointed out before slipping a criticism of the Government of the Community of Madrid, whom he has pointed out for "selling public housing to vulture funds".

From young people and housing, Sánchez has gone to the other end of society, the elderly, with the pension reform promoted by Minister José Luis Escrivá, ensuring that this reform "rebuilds the Toledo Pact with respect" and generates "social peace". "Remember that they spoke of a hot autumn, with people in the streets against the Government, and this country is the one that has the best and greatest social peace in all of Europe," he said.

The President of the Government has also placed Health, Education, Dependency, pensions and Housing as "the five pillars of the Welfare State" and has stressed that "all five have the seal of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party". "On May 28 it is decided if we want governments for majorities or for a privileged few," he said before placing his Executive as a "feminist" reference in "real equality between men and women", but without making a single mention of the Law of Only Yes is Yes or its reform, approved together with the PP.

Finally, Sánchez has taken advantage of the controversy of the Junta de Andalucía with the Doñana Irrigation Law to charge against the PP indicating that it is a "denialist" party. "Vox denies the effects of climate change and the PP does not deny it, but acts as if it does not exist. Some by action and others by omission are climate change deniers", concluded the president, accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska; the candidate for the City Council of Madrid, Reyes Maroto; the mayor of Fuenlabrada, Javier Ayala, and the secretary general of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato, among the 1,000 attendees at the Tomás y Valiente Art Center, where another 500 have not had a place.

  • PP
  • PSOE
  • Fuenlabrada
  • Vox
  • Europe
  • Reyes Maroto
  • Pedro Sanchez

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