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Updated Sunday, March 17, 2024-17:37

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Spanish Left

, the new progressive party that defines itself as an "alternative" to a PSOE that has become a "spokesperson for identity secessionism", was presented this Sunday in Madrid supported by intellectuals, former members of the Socialist Party, Ciudadanos and anti-nationalist civic movements. .

The new formation will measure its forces for the first time in the next European elections on June 9.

Its leader,

Guillermo del Valle

, emphasized that Izquierda Española was born to "defend equality against every man for himself" and does so, he said, with the intention of being "the hope of courage especially for the most vulnerable" against a Spain "of tribes or taifas."

"We defend," he stated, "a common Spain that is committed to the interests of everyone within Europe" because, he stressed, "the state is the refuge of the weakest."

The Ciudadanos MEP,

Soraya Rodríguez

, former socialist spokesperson in Congress during the leadership of

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

, for her part delved into the attacks of secessionism against the State: "Defending territorial integrity in Spain is defending the Spaniards" and, In this sense, he criticized the amnesty for being "a mercenary law in exchange for impunity."

Del Valle also referred to the grace measure, calling it a "privilege for those at the top; a privilege for a legal, political and social oligarchy," he insisted before regretting that the country does not have a Budget but does have an amnesty.

Rodríguez elaborated on the idea "so simple and so democratic" that "defending that Spain is a nation is defending the equality of Spaniards. And he assured that the left always opted for that approach "until it has become", in a clear allusion to the PSOE, "as a spokesperson for" secessionist identitarianism.

"Today," he stated, "(Jordi)

Turull

has said that we will see if there is viability for the legislature. This is about both the problem and the problem is us, Spain and the Spanish."

Furthermore, he has defended that "from the left a country project that is not the heritage of the right is defended."

The memory of the "hidden urn"

The former socialist leader has emphasized that to understand what is happening "it is necessary to know where we come from: from a hidden ballot box in the Federal Committee of 1-O to a meeting in Geneva with representatives of the fugitive to dismantle the State."

The presentation ceremony of the new party was led by the film director

Jon Viar

and the economist

Juan Francisco Martin Seco

, who was responsible for

Julio Anguita

, among others, participated ;

Beatriz Flores

, party program manager;

the writer and university professor

Félix Ovejero

, member of the anti-nationalist civic movements, and

Laura Montecino

, deputy spokesperson for the formation.