Sánchez criticizes that Abascal "goes with Broncano with an audience that he decides"

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, criticized this Sunday that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, does not accept interviews on TVE to talk about pensions and that the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, "goes with Broncano with an audience that he decides."

This was stated by Sánchez in his speech at the third pre-campaign rally after the Urda train accident, in Toledo, held at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao together with the general secretary of the Basque socialists, Eneko Andueza; the GPS spokesperson in Congress and head of the PSE-EE list for Vizcaya, Patxi López, and the secretary of Commerce and Consumer Affairs of the Federal Executive Commission and deputy mayor of the Bilbao city council, Nora Abete.

At the event, Sánchez ironically conveyed his criticism of his rivals in the elections on November 29. He has criticized the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that "he does not go to public television to be asked about pensions." Thus, he wanted to make it clear that the negotiations between PSOE and PP remain blocked and it is not because of him. The socialists offer a 'face to face' and also a four-way debate so that future coalition partners can also express their opinions. With this, the socialists also seek to portray a Feijóo alongside Vox. Likewise, they offer that one of the debates be on public television, while the popular ones reject this idea and seek for the debate to be held on Atresmedia.

Hence, the leader of the PSOE has pointed out in this event that Feijóo and Abascal "are brave", but that if the leader of Vox goes to La Revuelta it will be "with an audience that he decides." Thus, he continued with irony to say that "these people are going to dare Trump to say no to 5% of the gross domestic product if they govern." "These swallow everything, with the 5%, with the war in Iran, with the genocide in Gaza, with anything," he added.

Sánchez has thus called to "vote strongly to have a brave Government that defends the interests of Spain." "We are going to tell those who believe they are the 'sheriff' of the world that what happens in Spain is decided in Spain and that it is not decided in Washington, nor in Tel Aviv, nor in Buenos Aires, nor in Moscow. That Spain is a sovereign country and that it is not going to be the backyard of any far-right international," he said in reference to US President Donald Trump.

"The Pope voted by mail"

Sánchez also joked that in these last elections in the United States, "the Pope voted by mail." "I don't know what the Pope voted for, but I do know that he defends, for example, that people from abroad who come to our country to contribute to its development and prosperity be recognized with the rights that we also demanded from the countries that welcomed our ancestors," he noted.

He has also claimed to have seen the Pope defend the rights of migrants, the awareness of humanity in the face of the challenge of artificial intelligence and has stood up to the 'technoligarchs', to whom from here we also tell them that they are not going to get rich in exchange for the mental health of our young people," he continued pointing out.

"I don't know what the Pope voted for, but if the Pope and the punks voted, we have to vote next November 29," he encouraged in a new reference to the singer of People Have the Power, the American Patti Smith, whose message ('The strength of the people') Sánchez has made his own in the pre-campaign rallies. "We must vote en masse so that mobilization wins over involution," he reiterated. And he has appealed to the massive vote to be "an example again. The world looks at us. Let's make history. Let's vote, let's win and four more years of progressive government," he assured.

Mobilization

Sánchez has also appealed to feelings, to hope, specifically, to point out that "we have always believed that the future, that the best, is always yet to come." "This country has always made the strength of hope the strength of its country," he noted. Thus, he has detailed the achievements achieved during these eight years of Government, such as the nine weeks of paternity and maternity leave; the increase in pensions or the 66% increase in the minimum interprofessional wage (SMI). Sánchez has also taken advantage of this to wink at his former minister and former Government spokesperson, Isabel Celáa, since, "thanks to her we have 1,200,000 students in vocational training," he added.

The leader of the PSOE has also criticized the PP to point out that "they only listen to big businessmen." With this, he has assured that as long as he governs "we are going to raise the minimum interprofessional salary every year."

"Unlike what they do and propagate with an alleged collapse of the pension system," he stated and made the commitment that in the next legislature he will protect the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI, with strong applause in response from the public. He also joked that Vox used the president of Paraguay "who is in jail today" as an example of a public pension system.