There are already hints of a parliamentary election in the air. But rather than general elections, Pedro Sánchez insists there will be no elections before 2027. For now, it sounds like elections will be held in various autonomous regions in the coming months, including Extremadura, Castile and León, and Andalusia, and Pedro Sánchez’s speech this morning was a clear example of this. In La Moncloa, the President launched a kind of pre-campaign in which he denounced privatization and the decline of public services in the PP autonomous region in great detail, using dozens of data.
Sanchez wanted to contrast progressive and conservative models, so he presented a lot of data and an idea. The coalition government is giving municipalities an extra 300 billion euros, but the people of the PP, which controls 11 municipalities, are using it to tax the rich and privatize health care, education and addictions. The president summed it up with a direct attack on Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whose partner did business with the private medical giant Quiron. “They have turned Madrid into a casino where Quirón always wins and the people always lose,” Sanchez said amid the outrage of the Popular Bench.
“This government gives 300,000 euros more to municipalities than the Rajoy government. So why are waiting lists and the quality of public services deteriorating? Because the municipalities are using this money to do supposedly legal but immoral business for the elite. Madrid has cut taxes for the upper class by 5.7 billion euros and gave 5,000 euros to the contract with Quiron. 1 out of every 3 euros spent on health care in Madrid” 2019 What has Ayuso accomplished compared to 2015? Confidence has decreased by 23 points. Therefore, 848,787 Andalusians currently have private insurance. The surgery will cost 200,000 yen.
Sanchez focused his speech on this ideological battle between the PP and Vox. “Defending Spain does not mean taking down the Harrier flag, spending 5% on defence, or attacking immigrants. Defending Spain means investing in public schools, investing in public housing. That is the Spain worth defending, the Spain of welfare that our parents and grandparents built, that is the Spain of the people. You are not going to destroy it, and we are not going to allow it.”
The president also had a very clear message for Jantz, who announced the blockade of Congress. “Spain has suffered destructive opposition, consented to the absurd, and capitulated to the far right. How else can we explain why Spain voted against the pension revaluation? Against labor reforms that would increase employment and reduce temporary employment to historic lows? Rejecting debt cancellation that could ease the fiscal burden of the territories it governs? Now it appears that other parliamentary groups also want to agree to that blockade,” he said in relation to Vox. “But there could be many reasons to block legislation that protects children and adolescents in the digital environment. Why can’t family law be advanced in a country like ours that is suffering from a population winter? And the law of universality of a national health care system? We are talking about politics in capital letters,” he concluded, looking at Jantz and others. Moreover, Sánchez once again called for elections in the Valencian community, and did so by directly appealing to the Vox leader, which is highly unusual. “Mr. Abascal, we do not agree with the right of the Valencian people to be allowed to vote. The government will be vigilant to ensure that the agreement between the PP and Vox does not violate the rights and freedoms of the Valencian people.”
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