The President of the Government and candidate for re-election for the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, has committed this Sunday at a pre-campaign event in Bilbao to raise the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) every year, and to protect in the Constitution the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI or the right to abortion.
In a speech in which he has appealed to the mass vote and with constant references to the recent electoral processes in Brazil and the United States, Sánchez has, however, left aside the train accident in Urda (Toledo), which occurred just eleven days ago.
Nor has there been any reference to the State funeral for the 69 fatalities that will take place next Tuesday in the Cathedral of Toledo, presided over by the kings of Spain and which will include, among other political representatives, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, or the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
On behalf of the Government, the first vice president and Minister of Economy and Transport, Carlos Body, and the Minister of Education, Milagros Tolón, will attend in place of Sánchez.
In this way, Sánchez has left the railway tragedy out of his electoral speech, after having dedicated two days in a row to talking about it in his pre-election events.
On Friday, in Valencia, a minute of silence was observed, and he assured that crises and tragedies "unfortunately happen," but the key lay in "how a government responds."
After expressing his support for the victims and injured, he defended the management of his Executive and having "assumed political responsibility" with the resignation of Óscar Puente, whom he defined as a "great politician."
This Saturday, Sánchez insisted from Barcelona on differentiating his management from Mario Rajoy's Government: "If there is a lesson to be drawn from the last train accident, it is that it has taken us 15 years to reverse the cuts in investment in railway infrastructure after the wrong neoliberal response to the financial crisis of 2010."
The leader of the socialists arrived this Sunday in Bilbao, the epicenter of the pensioners' mobilizations, where he once again put on a red t-shirt, this time with the motto of the party's electoral campaign, "The strength of the people."
There he has shown his "solemn commitment" to safeguard the revaluation of pensions in accordance with the CPI during the next legislature and has assured that, while he governs, he will raise the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI) every year.
Likewise, Sánchez has also referred in his speech to the review of the right to abortion that the PP intends to warn that it is one of the two "main achievements" of women "in the last 50 years", an "inalienable" right, and that is why he has also promised to protect it in the Constitution along with pensions.
"We are going to demand it from all parliamentary parties," stressed the President of the Government.
"If you want us to go further and sooner in social achievements, especially in terms of housing, I do not ask for a simple majority, I ask for a broad and progressive majority in the next Parliament, to go sooner and further in social achievements," he proclaimed.
Sánchez has continually lifted the numerous attendees at the rally from their seats by reiterating his call for massive voting in the elections to forge a broad and progressive majority in both Congress and the Senate to go "further and sooner in social achievements" and stop the "far-right wave" that, in his opinion, "Feijóo and Abascal embody", because "no society advances by traveling to the past."
He has asked what the leaders of the PP and Vox propose and have proposed, and he has responded that "the only thing they do is insult."
In this sense, he has warned that "the only border between progress and regression is called the vote."
"And I appeal to that vote, to the massive vote, to be an example again. Let's make history, let's vote, let's win and four more years of progressive government," he added.
For this reason, Sánchez has said that the PSOE is going to do on 29N "the same as in the US", where people mobilized after becoming the "epicenter of the entire far-right international."
"We are going for Congress and the Senate because there is a lot of work to do," he stated.
In his speech, Sánchez contrasted his management in this last term with the ability to govern of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of whom he assured that, "if he governs, there will be no more music lists on Spotify."
"That is worrying about what is important, that is state policy, that is a song of joy. Feijóo is not sadder because he doesn't want to," he said.
In this sense, Sánchez has said that they are "very brave" and that is why the leader of the PP "does not go to public television to be asked about pensions", and that is why the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal "does not go to Broncano, and if he goes, it is with an audience that he decides."
"Are these people going to dare to say no to Trump to 5% of the GDP if they govern? These are going to swallow everything, with the 5%, with the war in Iran, with the genocide in Gaza, with anything," he warned.
For this reason, Sánchez has asked to "vote strongly" on November 29 "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 not decided in Washington or in Tel Aviv or in Buenos Aires or in Moscow.
"That Spain is a sovereign country and that it is not going to be the backyard of any far-right international," he defended.
The head of the Executive has assured that Feijóo has "clearly given in to the extreme right", despite saying that forming a government coalition with Vox will not depend on him, and has asked him "not to insult people's intelligence."
"But he is asking for the vote in Guipúzcoa, in Girona and in Tarragona for Vox!"
He has also attacked them because "they only remember my mother."
"I also remember theirs when we raised pensions, salaries, when we strengthened the public health and dependency service," he concluded.
At the pre-campaign rally held at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, the general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, as well as the head of the PSOE list for Congress for Vizcaya and spokesperson in Congress, Patxi López, spoke before Sánchez.
Andueza has stressed this call to "smash the ballot boxes" with socialist votes given the warning that "when the right-wing governs, rights end."
