Madrid (EFE) policies”.
In an interview in the newspaper El País, the PSOE candidate for 23-J has pointed out about a possible pact between the Popular Party and Vox after the general elections that the Spanish have information that they did not have before: “PP and Vox already They bluntly assume that they have to govern in coalition”.
Asked about the result of the municipal and regional elections on May 28 and whether “Spain is turning to the right”, as “it is happening in a good part of Europe”, Sánchez pointed out that “Spain is no stranger to this reactionary current”. .
However, he has qualified that on 28-M “what there was was a concentration of the conservative vote in two political forces, the PP and Vox”, and a PSOE that “regresses minimally, although it loses institutional power”, as well as “a dispersion very accused in the electorate to the left of the PSOE”.
Three points from the PP
The President of the Government has also highlighted that the electoral result of three weeks ago “what it tells us is that we are three points behind the PP”.
“The conservative bloc obtained 39%, far from what some polls say that place it at 49%,” he added, for which he has been optimistic to “turn it around.”
Regarding post-electoral agreements of the left, the head of the Executive has defended in the interview that “with Sumar the coalition it would be easier” and, at the same time, he has considered the regrouping of the left in this formation led by the vice president as good news Yolanda Diaz.
In this sense, he has highlighted that there is no longer a dispersion to the left of the PSOE. “Today there is a new political project, led by Yolanda Díaz, called Sumar”, she commented.
Sánchez stressed that, in any case, his party has “a non-transferable responsibility”, because “the victory of the PSOE will largely depend on whether Spain continues to advance”.
Govern with Add
Sánchez has also assured that the PSOE is out to win the elections and that, like all the candidates, it aspires to govern alone, but has pointed out that, “assuming a fragmented reality, I understand that after July 23 we will form a progressive coalition government with Yolanda Díaz and Sumar”.
“Which, by the way, can be an easier and more functional coalition government, because we have worked loyally and effectively on all the laws that have had to do with Yolanda Díaz and what Sumar represents.”
Likewise, he has accused the PP and Vox of not having a political project “beyond repealing sanchismo.”
On his management, he has analyzed that “if a year ago I had said that the Spanish economy was going to grow at 2.1% in 2023, after a pandemic and in the middle of the war, that we were going to double the growth of the euro zone, that We were going to create more jobs than Italy, France or Germany, they would have told me that I was being optimistic”.
For this reason, he stressed that “repealing what works flu affects the economy”, and added that these five years “are a collective success story as a nation.”
Thus, he has indicated that repealing “is not a political project”, but rather “going back 5, 15 or 20 years”.
PP-Vox agreements
In relation to the agreement between the PP and Vox in the Valencian Community, he explained that a few months ago a European leader told him that “if there is a PP government with Vox, the balance within the EU will be broken.”
Regarding the transfer of votes from the PSOE to the PP that the post-election polls detect, he has indicated that the PSOE has the duty to warn Spanish society about the “serious” consequences that a PP government with Vox can have.
“On 28-M something became clear, and also this Saturday, and that is that if PP and Vox add up, Santiago Abascal will be vice president of the Government. No one denies that ”, he emphasized.
Referring to the management of the law of only yes is yes, and on whether it has hurt them in the female vote, he has recognized that the reform “was a mistake.” “I have recognized it as such, I have apologized and we corrected it”, she has had an impact.
“risky” decisions
In the interview, he stressed that he had to make “very difficult and risky” decisions during his government, such as pardoning the leaders of the process, but, in this regard, he highlighted that Catalonia has been for the last ten years a monotheme in Spanish politics and “today it is not”.
On this point, he said that he knows that there are many Spaniards who voted for him in 2019 and that today, perhaps, they are thinking of not doing so because they did not understand this measure, “but you have to look at how Catalonia is now. Politics is solving problems ”, he has exposed.
In relation to Bildu, he stressed that the distance between the PSOE and the Basque party “is abysmal” and that they do not have “a government agreement.” “We have approved a pension reform with many political parties, including Bildu, but also the PNV, ERC and Podemos”, he said.
200 laws
Regarding the balance of the coalition government, he pointed out that it is “very positive” and that “it is one of the most transformative and reformist governments in the history of our democracy.”
“We have approved 200 laws. Now we no longer need to approve so many, but to consolidate them”, he stated.
However, he has recognized that the Executive has “exceeded decibels” in the internal debate.
On the other hand, questioned about the results of the CIS, the body in which José Félix Tezanos is in charge, and about whether it has been a mistake to keep him in office, he said that “you may or may not agree with the interpretations and the estimates”, but, “of course, what cannot be discussed is the quality, transparency and publicity of all this raw data”.
Lastly, when asked what sanchismo is, he replied that “it is the old strategy of the right when it is in opposition.”
“It is dehumanizing, caricaturing, painting the progressive leader who is in charge of the Government as a selfish person, who has no scruples and who does anything to stay in power,” he concluded.