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Pedro Sánchez has moved this Friday to Galicia to harangue the Socialists in the face of municipal elections in which he looks the winner – "I have no doubt that on May 28 we will win" – and, taking advantage of the fact that he was in the land of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, he has launched harsh criticism of his role as head of the opposition. "You have won the Galicians with his departure, but we have lost the rest, because what a level," he said very critical in reference to his jump to national politics, which meant leaving the Presidency of the Galician Government.

In what was his first pre-campaign act in Galicia, Sánchez has surrounded himself with the PSOE candidates for mayors of practically the entire community and has wanted to undermine the reputation of the PP leader in what is his disfiguring house, as he did in his last speech in the Senate, that "Feijóo this of national politics or catches him big or catches him away".

He has not forgotten the frequent allusions of the leader of the PP to "repeal the sanchismo" and wanted to clarify that it is not about sanchismo or felipismo -as they refer to the Government of Felipe González-, but "it is called socialism: we have 143 years of life and we will continue to advance our country. "

Very sure of his good results on May 28 in Galicia, where only municipal elections are held and predicts that "we are going to be the first political force", Sánchez has insisted that "the root of the PSdeG-PSOE is clearly municipalist", with great mayors who "are a reference in many policies that go beyond Galicia and that inspire many councilors from many cities".

The event filled on Friday afternoon with 2,000 people the Palace of Exhibitions of La Coruña, Palexco, where Sánchez took a real bath of masses and it took him about ten minutes to advance and reach the stage amid kisses, hugs and photographs.

110 socialist town halls

The meeting has served to demand the municipal strength of the Socialists, who in Galicia govern in 110 municipalities, which represents 54% of the Galician population. They also have the presidency of three of the four provincial councils, more than 1,000 councilors and are part of the government of six of all the large cities except Ourense.

Speaking in terms of national politics, he has accused the right and the extreme right of being "fighting against everything and everyone" in relation to Doñana, a "lung" that "absorbs every day the equivalent of 1.4 million trees and cushions the effects of climate change". Thus, he accuses them of being "against science", but also "against irrigators who have legalized irrigation", "against European sentences" and now also "against the European Commission.

For the leader of the PSOE, "the serious thing is not that they show that they have lost the north, but that they damage the reputation of a deeply pro-European country like Spain," he insisted, concerned about the political emergency and the "denialist politicians by action or omission" that "as dangerous" are as floods, fires and drought.

Also against the parties of the right he assured that they have settled in the "league of insult, disqualification, hoaxes and disinformation" and has confronted that policy with which he assures that the PSOE exercises, "management". And he has raised the flag of "territorial cohesion" to remind the PP that "there is life beyond the M-30".

"More Galician" than Feijóo

The secretary general of the PSdeG-PSOE, Valentín González Formoso, opened the event by praising Sánchez because "he has been leaving his skin for this country since before the pandemic" and because "he has engraved on fire not to leave anyone behind". Also focusing on Feijóo, he said that the president of the PSOE and the Government is "more Galician" than the leader of the opposition despite his origin because "he feels Galicia" and "demonstrates commitment to this country".

The host was Inés Rey, candidate of the PSOE from A Coruña for re-election, who criticized the two previous mayors, the PP and Marea Atlántica, a formation that Formoso described as a political "experiment" and boasted that in the last four years, "we managed to move from tension to dialogue, with everyone, with the opposition, with citizens and with administrations."

Speaking on behalf of all the candidates in the community, he took advantage of its "effectiveness in management", going "from irrelevance to leadership, to being a model city in which many cities in this country look." And he took advantage of the presence of the current Minister of Health and former delegate of the Government in Galicia, José Miñones, to criticize Feijóo.

"We export the best," he said in reference to the former Galician president, to add, addressing Sánchez, that "thank goodness you have taken Miñones so they know that not all Galicians are like Feijóo." He was upset by the "zero calls the president made to me to know how we were doing" during the pandemic.

  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Galicia
  • Municipal Elections

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