Alicante, May 5 (EFE).- The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has affirmed that the Valencian Community of the socialist Ximo Puig is “synonymous with exemplary character and good management” compared to previous PP governments characterized by political corruption.
This has been stated by Sánchez in a pre-electoral party act with a thousand affiliates and supporters in the Auditorium of the University of Alicante together with the Valencian president and the socialist candidate for the city council, Ana Barceló, where he has described the first of ” referent of Spanish socialism” and has assured that “it is a pride to walk next to” him.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT COVID
The president began his speech with the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) to end the covid emergency, commenting that in a message this Friday to the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adanom, he reminded him that he He said that Spain exercised humble leadership in the face of the pandemic.
“A humble leadership” which, as Sánchez has evoked, “was surely referring to the applause from the balconies to the health professionals who made themselves known throughout the world, as well as being one of the countries with the highest percentage of population vaccinated”. “The best tribute to the victims is to never forget that we cannot weaken, but quite the contrary, strengthen the health system and the science system”, he added.
A BALANCE OF GOVERNMENT
Sánchez has reviewed some of the achievements sponsored by his government, the last of which is the agreement of the social agents on the salary increase and the social housing that he is going to promote, and has had an impact on the actions that are closest to the ground Alicante at the inauguration, last year, of the Madrid-Murcia AVE line with stops in Orihuela and Elche.
According to the president, “it is already very difficult to see businessmen who do not recognize that the Government has accelerated the Mediterranean Corridor”, a vital infrastructure for the competitiveness of Alicante, where it has also revealed that its executive has opened a smart tourist destinations in the city of Benidorm.
PUIG’S CLAIM
Minutes before his turn, the Valencian president, Ximo Puig, stated that in recent years it has been shown that both in Spain and in the Community “from the sphere of progress the economy is better governed”, as reflected in the fact that since 2015 430,000 jobs have been created in the three Valencian provinces, for 11,000 in other territories governed by the PP, citing Andalusia.
The leader of the Valencian socialists has also referred to political corruption, which he has said has been “eradicated”, in the face of a PP that continues to place electoral head (in Orihuela) “a man who has been opened oral trial for stealing from the Treasury and that they ask for 7 years ”, in reference to the popular candidate José Vegara.
THE LEADERSHIP OF ANA BARCELÓ
The act has served to wrap up the Alicante socialist candidate, Ana Barceló, who has started the rally criticizing the “negligence” of the popular mayor and aspiring to follow, Luis Barcala, for focusing on opposing the central and regional governments while the city It has some of the poorest neighborhoods in the country and does not get on the bandwagon of the leading ‘hub’ in technological innovation led by the Consell in the Digital District.
Barceló has promised to fight for a “proactive” local government in a city where citizens of 163 nationalities live together for a “friendly, sustainable, green, habitable and welcoming” city.