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Updated Sunday, March 17, 2024-12:31

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Pedro Sánchez has taken advantage of the first act of the socialist pre-campaign in Catalonia to attack the right: "Fewer lessons in patriotism and more doing the country by paying taxes," said the President of the Government in a clear reference, although without names, to the case. of alleged crimes against the Treasury and document falsification that affects the partner of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

"Their patriotism ends up in their pockets and there is nothing more unpatriotic than defrauding the Treasury," Sánchez added at the closing of the 15th Congress of the PSC, an event that coincided in time with the approval of the proposed Amnesty Law in the Congress of Deputies and with the advancement of the regional elections by the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès.

For this reason, the speech of the general secretary of the PSOE has had a clear message of support for the candidacy for the 12-M led by the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, ratified yesterday by acclamation as first secretary of the party and candidate for the elections of the next month of May.

The political news, in addition, has meant that Sánchez's presence in Congress occurs one day after it became known that the PSOE and Junts held their fourth bilateral meeting in Switzerland on Friday and in the same week in which the Government resigned. to present a draft General State Budget for this year, following the electoral advance in Catalonia.

Sánchez considers that the right and the extreme right "do not accept Spain as it is, politically plural and territorially diverse, with different languages ​​and cultures that are an asset for the whole and not a brake."

And he added that only the socialists are capable of governing in Catalonia and Spain with a project for "coexistence and social progress", which has contrasted "resentment, revenge and polarization."

The PSC hopes to return to the Palau de la Generalitat almost 14 years after the end of the second tripartite Government and, to this end, has reinforced the internal consensus of its proposal to open "a new stage in Catalonia for political normalization."

Federalism, deployment of the Statute and improvements in regional financing as recipes to leave behind "victimhood and complaints."

But, beyond that, the socialists want to recover "excellence" of public services in education, health, housing, drought, energy or infrastructure policies.

On the other hand, the PSC has chosen today, with 98% support, the composition of its new executive, which highlights the promotion of the mayor of Sant Boi de Llobregat and president of the Barcelona Provincial Council, Lluïsa Moret, who will be Illa's number two as deputy first secretary.

Two other promoted mayors are that of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, who will be deputy to the first secretariat, and Núria Parlon (Santa Coloma de Gramenet), new spokesperson for the party.