"I love you". Pedro Sánchez has thus proclaimed his love for his wife, Begoña Gómez, before the nearly 3,000 supporters gathered this Saturday at a PSOE rally in the Madrid town of Fuenlabrada to celebrate his proclamation, “unanimously” by the socialist federal committee, as a candidate for re-election as president of the Government in the general elections on November 29.
The wife of the Chief Executive is waiting to sit in the dock in the jury trial to which Judge Juan Carlos Peinado sent him before his retirement, after a controversial investigation for several alleged corruption crimes. However, for the socialists, who defend the “innocence” of Begoña Gómez, this judicial process is only a “political cause” that seeks to weaken Sánchez, and that mobilizes the militants and sympathizers of his initials in reaction. In the absence of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, removed from the socialist campaign after his accusation also for alleged corruption crimes, Begoña Gómez thus becomes an electoral asset for the PSOE before 29-N.
The President of the Government has arrived at the PSOE rally in Fuenlabrada with his wife, to great applause from supporters. Together they went on stage, giving each other repeated kisses and hugs to the clamor of the audience. And Sánchez addressed his wife first in his speech: “Thank you for being my wife, for being the mother of my daughters, and for being my wife.” Begoña Gómez, visibly moved, went on stage, and once again merged with Sánchez in a kiss and a hug.
"They have tried to break us in every way, and they have achieved just the opposite. Today we are more united and stronger than ever," Sánchez said about his wife. “So, let them hear it loud and clear: I love you,” he said, while the pavilion collapsed with enthusiasm. “How beautiful, how beautiful!” supporters chanted. And the rally concluded with Sánchez and his wife, and many of the socialist ministers who supported them, dancing and clapping to the sound of the music.
The reappearance of Begoña Gómez as an electoral asset, and Pedro Sánchez's declaration of love in public, have thus become the main assets of the rally with which the leader of the PSOE has tried to promote the 29-N campaign after his proclamation as a candidate for re-election as President of the Government.
Sánchez, who at the start of the event dressed in a red t-shirt with the motto of the socialist campaign - "The strength of the people" - waved all his electoral flags during his speech to try to stop the "reactionary wave" of the PP and Vox that, according to most polls, can govern Spain after 29-N. From his condemnation of the “genocide” in Gaza - “No to war!”, supporters have once again cried out -, to his denunciation of the “techno-oligarchs”, and the evictions encouraged by vulture funds, with a new memory of Maricarmen. And from his commitment to shield abortion in the Constitution to his promises of an imminent increase in the interprofessional minimum wage and an upcoming revaluation of pensions before the end of the year.
“If you like chainsaws, go to the sawmill, but pensions are not touched,” he warned the PP and Vox. With an explicit message for Feijóo and Abascal: "Pensions are not a gift check, it is a social conquest achieved. A little more respect for the elderly!"
Let the spirit not falter, despite the fact that the space on the left of the PSOE has been unable to unite before the 29-N elections. “I am convinced that we are going to win with a much larger majority than what happened in 2019 and 2023,” Sánchez confided. “Because the Spaniards want progress, they do not want cuts disguised as sacrifices or derogations, as Feijóo and Abascal say.” “I see more and more mobilization,” in the progressive electorate, “and more fear on the right,” he celebrated.
However, he has insisted on the need for the progressive electorate to mobilize. Sánchez has assured that the PP and Vox seek to "demobilize before the elections so that, if they reach the Government, they cut back afterwards." "And what we have to do is mobilize. We have to mobilize, we have to vote, we have to win and we have to govern after November 29," he claimed.
