The electoral pre-campaign continues to advance at the pace of the campaign, and this Saturday, the President of the Government and PSOE candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, promised at a rally in Granada to protect the right to abortion, while criticizing the "endless cuts" that according to him PP and Vox propose.
At an event held in the Federico García Lorca room of the Granada Congress Palace, Sánchez took the opportunity to read a poem by the Granada author, for which he needed reading glasses.
In this regard, he has confessed that before he asked his team to write the speeches "with Arial 18" and now he asks them to write them in "Arial 24." "The consequences of life," he said with a laugh.
"Feijóo is the packaging, but Abascal is the gift and there are gifts that are not worth opening," said Sánchez, who said that there is an "endless list" of cuts from the right in matters such as health care and minimum wage, as well as abortion or euthanasia, which means that the opposition parties "want to take us to the Spain of 50 years ago", in the face of what he called social "conquests" achieved by his Government.
For this reason, he has promised that if he becomes President of the Government again, he will "shield" women's right to abortion in the Spanish Constitution, euthanasia "will remain a great conquest and advance for Spanish society" and the interprofessional minimum wage "will rise" while he is president "with or without an agreement with the employers," he said.
Regarding abortion, she recalled that women demonstrate every March 8 "to tell (Alberto Ruiz) Gallardón, (Mariano) Rajoy and the PP, who are back in the fight with abortion, that the right of women in our country to abort is not affected."
According to Sánchez, "what PP and Vox propose is not an alternation, they propose a reversal and we are already seeing it where they govern and he has said that Abascal and Feijóo "belong to the same chainsaw club" as the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, despite the fact that, as he ironically stated, on their last visit to Spain both leaders "did not know where to go" to avoid taking a photo with him and that "we would notice."
What we do not want for the world, we do not want for our country" and "they call us left-handed men and women, because it is a great honor (...) because with this hand we have raised the minimum wage that they freeze; We have raised pensions and with this hand we have defended the rights of women that they trivialize or commercialize when they have to negotiate their seats in governments," he exclaimed.
The socialist leader has asked for a larger majority to "go further" in access to housing and social rights over the next four years and to "defeat the right and the extreme right", which "play at demobilization" to "then cut back" if they reach the Government.
He has once again regretted the Supreme Court's decision to paralyze the so-called grandchildren law: "But what is happening, the grandchildren of the Franco regime are going to be able to vote and the grandchildren of the republican exile are not going to be able to do so," he asked, after which he asked to go vote "for them with more force if possible."
Sánchez, who has put on a white t-shirt with the phrase "the strength of love" in red, has insisted on his criticism of Núñez Feijóo: "I don't know if Feijóo's behavior is insolence or sectarianism," he said. "Being a feminist is not growing up among women, being a feminist is not cutting back on women's rights. No man will ever give his opinion and control them again about women's rights and bodies," she added.
He has also mocked the PP leader, saying that "every time Feijóo speaks, the bread rises." He has stated that the president of the PP "steps in many puddles", as in recent interviews when he confused the average salary with the minimum.
Sánchez has wondered why leaders like Milei and Trump criticize Spain: "I am very clear about it. They come because this Government and this nation, Spain, is reliable proof that hope is much more efficient than the hatred that they spread."
Returning to Milei, Sánchez has admitted that the visit of the Argentine president "is very good for us" and has said that in Argentina, 11 million workers "do not receive a right to Social Security."
"What Milei has done is cut the minimum interprofessional wage by 40%. While in Spain, thanks to the social democratic policies of the progressive coalition government, we have 22.5 million workers contributing to Social Security, while at the same time we have raised the minimum interprofessional wage by 66%," he said.
"That's why I ask you, do you want Le Pen, do you want Trump, do you want Milei?" Sánchez asked. "Well, if you don't want Trump or Milei or Le Pen, of course, you are not going to want Feijóo or Abascal leading the country for the next four years," he added. "And on top of that they call us left-handed men and women. Well, it is a great honor to be left-handed men and women," he added.
Regarding housing, the President of the Government in the last eight years has said that "if on November 29 we achieve those 176 seats of a progressive parliamentary majority, we will go further and arrive sooner in access to housing for the young and not so young in our country."
Reference to García Lorca
Sánchez has said that the idea of reading a poem by Federico García Lorca in his own land came from the writer Ian Gibson, who wrote him an e-mail this Friday, according to Sánchez, to ask him to vindicate his figure.
The socialist candidate said that Lorca himself "spoke of unrequited love, of people who could not live as they wanted, of empathy and proximity to those people who suffered."
Sánchez took the opportunity to highlight that the 90th anniversary of the poet's death is being commemorated and that he has been remembered again, "above all and mainly for that fantastic film by 'the Javis', The Black Ball."
