Sánchez blames the PP, demands that they "trust" him and affirms that the Junts amnesty "will make Spain stronger"

Josean Izarra Bilbao

Bilbao

Updated Saturday, March 9, 2024-14:05

The President of the Government Pedro Sánchez has blamed the PP for the consequences of the 'procés', has called on "those who doubt" to trust him and has defended that the Amnesty Law agreed with Carles Puigdemont "will make Spain stronger."

Sánchez, with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as opening act, has made it clear in Bilbao that he intends to cover his concessions to the Catalan independentists with a diverse cascade of political and social proposals.

The socialist leader has announced that Spain will recognize the Palestinian State and a norm will be processed for the abolition of prostitution.

Sánchez has landed in Bilbao with the aim of counteracting the erosion of his assignment in the Amnesty Law before Junts with the use of his entire agenda of social commitments.

"We have been talking about Catalonia since 2010," he warned to minimize the relevance of his pact with Puigdemont.

The socialist president now defends the need to "channel all strategies" towards climate policies, digitalization or the training of young people.

Aware of "the doubts" that the Amnesty Law causes in the majority of Spaniards and in a large part of their militancy, Sánchez has demanded that they "trust" him with the pardons as a reference.

The "overcoming of the judicial consequences of this drama", as defined by the amnesty that will be approved next Thursday in Congress, "will make Spain stronger", according to the socialist president.

The leader of the PSOE has blamed the PP for resorting to the Catalan Statute as the origin of an illegal independence process promoted and carried out by its now partners;

Together and ERC.

Without any mention of them, the President of the Government has denounced the "destructive opposition" carried out by Núñez Feijóo's party.

Furthermore, with Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán present, Sánchez has tiptoed over the consequences of the 'Koldo case' that extends the shadow of corruption in institutional leaders such as Francina Armengol and Salvador Illa.

"There are parties that support corruption while the PSOE nips it in the bud," he stated in the only reference to the plot that, for the moment, has caused the break with the former minister and former secretary of the Socialist Organization José Luis Ábalos.

Sánchez's intervention occurred after a long speech by Rodríguez Zapatero for more than 35 minutes full of praise for the leader of the PSOE.

"Support him as you supported me, and if you want more," Zapatero demanded of his militants at the end of his intervention.

The PSOE has dedicated itself to the first act in Euskadi with former president Rodríguez Zapatero together with Pedro Sánchez.

More than a thousand members have packed the electoral rally organized to reinforce Eneko Andueza's candidacy for lehendakari.

But the socialist conclave has started with more than twenty minutes of videos with testimonies from ministers and colleagues of Rodríguez Zapatero to praise his political career.

"Today is a day to vindicate ourselves because light, hope, has returned here, hand in hand with a socialist government," Andueza stressed to remember those murdered by ETA but also Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.

"We made it possible," defended the leader of the PSOE, attributing the end of terrorism to the governments of Rodríguez Zapatero and Lehendakari Patxi López, also present at the event.

"Everything good that has happened to Spain has been thanks to the socialists," defended Andueza, today the opening act at the rally held in Bilbao under the motto "Rights, Democracy, Freedom. 20 years since José Luis's first electoral victory Rodríguez Zapatero. "All the advances have our initials and all the resistance of the PP," defended the leader of the Basque PSOE, who has focused all his criticism on Rajoy's party without explicit references to either PNV or Bildu, his partners in Madrid and Pamplona and rivals in the Basque elections of 21-A.

"Fewer pro-independence speeches, less complacency and more politics with capital letters like what we socialists do," Andueza stated to defend that the PSE is "the only party that has a country project."