San Sebastián (EFE)
Andueza has closed this Saturday in San Sebastián a municipalist conference of the PSE-EE that has brought together, in two round tables, the three candidates for the mayoralty of San Sebastián, Bilbao and Vitoria, Marisol Garmendia, Nora Abete and Maider Etxebarria, respectively, and the first mayors of Portugalete, Pasaia and Iruña de Oca, Mikel Torres, Izaskun Gómez and Michel Montes.
Also participating were the mayor of Fuenlabrada, Javier Ayala, who closed the event, and the PSOE Municipal Policy Secretary, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, who spoke at the opening together with the PSE-EE Institutional Policy Secretary, Begona Gil.
Barrier against the extreme right
In his speech, Andueza has warned that the right “trusts its strategy to its alliance with VOX as the first test for the general elections”, but there is a “barrier that they will not be able to cross, which is the municipal barrier”.
“In towns, harassing campaigns on networks are not valid, nor are ‘fake news’ and lies, because in a town if you lie, the citizens see you, they catch you,” said Andueza, who insisted that “the Local politics is the best antidote against populism, lies and ‘fake news’”.
Andueza has assured that “if there is someone who can stop the right and the extreme right, it is none other than the socialist party”, which, he added, will emerge “much stronger from these municipal and regional elections”, which will be “a first test of fire of the following elections that will come”.
“Independence Obsessions”
The alternative in Euskadi, added the leader of the PSE-EE, is “known” and returned to “express itself in its maximum dimension” last Thursday in the Basque Parliament, where the PNV, EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos joined to “bet for the umpteenth time for the right to decide”.
“The PNV and EH Bildu doing their handyman with their pro-independence obsessions and Podemos acting as candle holders, as if we didn’t have enough to manage and problems to solve to dedicate ourselves to those things that only matter to them,” he criticized.
First thing in the morning, in the opening ceremony of the day, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis accused the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of seeking a pension reform “as in France”.
“Feijóo wants the streets to catch fire, for people to protest, for people to remember in Spain what happened with Rajoy, setbacks and dismantling of pensions,” lamented the socialist leader.
He has branded the president of the PP as “permanently accusing and informative”, who insists on “leaving Spain badly” before the European authorities, but with “disastrous success”
The person in charge of the municipal area of the PSOE has lamented that the PP “cannot be counted on for anything” and that the Socialists have had to respond to their objectives by seeking other support.
He stressed that the PP does not criticize the PSOE for what it does “but for who it does it with.” “We do it with those we can,” said the socialist leader.
