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Pedro Sánchez shakes off internal criticism and turns a deaf ear to the voices inside and outside the PSOE warning of the seriousness of granting an "amnesty" to the Catalan independence movement as a counterpart to unlock his investiture with the votes of Junts. The socialist leader has assured that he has it "very clear" and that "they can shout, insult or say what they want" but that his objective is that there is a "progressive" government. And to achieve this, he stressed, his intention is to "look for votes even under the stones."

This was stated at an event in Sigüeiro (La Coruña), during the festival of the rose of the Galician Socialists, where Sánchez has been convinced of being able to govern four more years despite the high price set by Junts.

Without mentioning in any case the "amnesty", the main demand of Carles Puigdemont to have his decisive seven votes in Congress, Sánchez has disdained the reproaches he is receiving for that hypothetical cession saying that they only respond to the "frustration" of a PP that has lost the elections. "We heard the usual tremendismo, the usual insults, that the Socialists have been breaking Spain for more than 40 years," he said. "No, what is not broken is Spain, but the PP, and you will see it when the investiture fails," he concluded.

Sánchez has stressed that Spain "almost broke up" in 2017, "when the PP governed" and the unilateral declaration of independence was approved in the Parliament. But now with him, the PSC of Salvador Illa is the most voted force in Catalonia.

"That's why I'm very clear. They can shout, insult or say whatever they want, but do not forget the progressive people. What the PP and the far right intend is that the PSOE does not govern from the investiture that we propose, "he has deepened.

"That's why they demonstrate so that there is no progressive government, but I am very sorry. The Spaniards have spoken and there will be a progressive government. Of course there will be!", he stressed convinced. And to achieve this, Sánchez has assured that he will "look for votes even under the stones" as soon as "fails" the investiture of Feijóo.

In his speech, he has shaken off the criticism that it threatens the equality of Spaniards saying that this is guaranteed by revaluing pensions, changing working conditions with the labor reform and strengthening health and education. Similarly, he has disdained that the PP distributes constitutionalist cards when it "breaches" the Magna Carta by blocking the CGPJ. In front of a PSOE that complies with the Constitution "from A to Z".

In the chapter of criticism of the PP, Sánchez has labeled as "dislate" the demonstration of the next day 24 in Madrid. "Gentlemen of the PP, Spain is not broken, Spain yawns at the huge waste of time of the investiture of Mr. Feijoo and his lie," he said. "If this investiture was like a football match this man would have been given the red card for deliberate loss of time." He also assured that Feijóo "does not present himself to be elected head of government, but to be elected head of the opposition."

Taking advantage of the fact that he was in Galicia, he has ironized about the figure of the leader of the PP, saying that he thought "that he gave for more" when he was president of the Xunta. "You have given us a cat for a hare," he said, national politics "comes big."

For his part, the secretary general of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, has introduced the issue of amnesty implicitly when he has urged Sánchez to make the decisions he believes to govern. "Peter do what you have to do," he said.

In addition, he has referred to internal criticism within the PSOE, such as those publicly expressed by Felipe González or Alfonso Guerra. In a first intervention in Galician, he said that they were people who "had their time" and asked them for "the same respect" that they had for the current secretary general, the party and the federations, which have "the right to write" new pages of history. Then, in Spanish, he said: "Each and every one of us are felipistas, guerristas, zapateristas, pedristas but above all we are socialists. It's who we are. So Peter do what you have to do. In the name of the best of this country, of this society that has all the hope placed in you."

  • PP
  • PSOE
  • Galicia
  • Felipe Gonzalez
  • Carles Puigdemont
  • Amnesty