Thunderous music and flags at the top of the PSOE. This Saturday, some five thousand people arriving from the eight Andalusian provinces packed the municipal auditorium of Los del Río in the Sevillian town of Dos Hermanas, a bastion of socialist municipal power and a talisman for Pedro Sánchez himself from where he has begun comebacks that very few expected throughout his political career. It is the first major act of the PSOE in the pre-campaign of the general elections on November 29, brought forward by the president after the setback suffered in Congress with his decrees on housing, also known as 'Maricarmen decrees'.
With the motto "the strength of the people" and preceded by a video in which the socialists have compiled a wide catalog of the insults launched against Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government has agitated the "social mobilization" unleashed as a result of the eviction and death of Maricarmen so that it "overflows" at the polls in favor of "the progressive majorities."
"Maricarmen and those who are mobilizing for fair housing opened the way and it is up to us to go as far as the people's vote allows us," proclaimed Sánchez, who has summarized the "three steps" of all the "great social conquests", which are "social mobilization, the usual no and the overflow of the society that supports the progressive majorities."
For Sánchez, "today the social cause bears the name of an 87-year-old woman, who already told us that what she had suffered, no one else should suffer." "Each generation has its fight and ours will be that of housing, which we will win with a large majority of the people because in front of us we only have messages of fear and of Spain sinking." Those attending the rally have also displayed posters with Sánchez's photo, emulating the famous ones of Obama, with the slogan "Yes, he can."
Regarding the opposition, he has pointed out that "he is always with the fable of Pedro and the wolf" and "even Aznar has said that the Monarchy would end if the evil Pedro wins, but they are the wolf; I, in any case, will be a dog that has no master and serves the common people." Applause among his followers.
During his speech before a dedicated audience, who shouted "you are not alone", Sánchez addressed pensioners, women and LGTBI groups and emerged as a defender of all of them, in the face of the threat from the right-wing PP and Vox and their warnings about the risk of the pension fund breaking. It has also been attributed to the increases in pensions and all achievements in labor matters, such as the increase in the minimum wage or the protection for workers from the labor reform.
Meanwhile, María Jesús Montero, coordinator of the PSOE campaign and general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE, has made a fiery defense of the leader. "They have called him a traitor and a felon because he was practicing a policy that benefits the majority of people against the powerful," proclaimed Montero, who thanked Sánchez for "enduring the undeserved insult, the hoax, the lie and above all the personal attack on you and your family. Thanks to Begoña for being there for being strong and for always supporting you."
After those words, the public stood up shouting "you are not alone, you are not alone!" Montero has complained about those who want to end the coalition government "with hoaxes" and has defended "progressive" policies to advance "workers' rights, despite the fact that the right attacks, insults, barks and cackles to try to silence you."
From Dos Hermanas, a municipality in the Seville belt where almost 150,000 inhabitants live, the president has started the comeback more than once. When everyone assumed he was dead politically, after the turbulent operation of harassment and demolition that, in October 2016, left him out of the general secretariat of the party and the Congress of Deputies, Sánchez confirmed in January 2017 in this town his intention to return to the political arena to challenge Susana Díaz in the primaries to lead the party.
At the Dos Hermanas Technology Park, Sánchez proclaimed himself "the militancy candidate" who would end up taking control from the party's old guard shortly after, on May 21, 2017, against the odds.
