The federal congress of the PSOE has become a kind of self-defense conclave in the middle of the right-wing judicial offensive. An extra-parliamentary opposition strategy that the secretary of the socialist organization has defined as a “manhunt.”
“We suffer from a corrosive opposition that, since our arrival to the Government in 2018, has dedicated itself to carrying out a strategy of harassment and demolition that has made the political climate in Spain unbreathable. A strategy of human hunting, inside and outside our borders, in order to try to overthrow a legitimate government,” Santos Cerdán denounced.
The party’s number three, who will be confirmed in his organic responsibility this Sunday, has referred to “an industry of hate” that generates “mud, noise and bile without stopping with the sole objective of generating chaos.” And he has expressly pointed out the multiple fronts opened in the courts. “They try to impose their reactionary vision through lies, also in court.”
“The President of the Government knows this well. Never before in democracy has there been a similar attack against a legitimate president,” said Cerdán, who has attacked the opposition for “delegitimizing the electoral results, defaming and attacking the personal environment, just for being our family, in order to weaken us.”
“But we know why they attack us!” he continued. “They are coming after us because we represent everything they despise, what they hate: social justice, equity, the fight for equal opportunities, for gender equality.”
For this reason, Santos Cerdán has called on his party to “face the tidal wave of hatred and misinformation” which, in his opinion, not only puts in check a political option or a specific formation. “What is at stake is an era, a way of life, that of liberal democracies as we have known them until now. And we are ready to face them,” he concluded.
Óscar López, for Ayuso
Upon arrival at the Seville congress, the Minister for Digital Transformation and the Public Service of Spain, Óscar López, was asked by the press about one of those judicial fronts, the one that concerns his chief of staff in Moncloa. for the leak of private information of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s partner.
“Ayuso’s boyfriend commits a crime, Ayuso’s chief of staff spreads a lie and it is the PSOE who gives explanations. “It’s curious,” he said, without wanting to go into the details of the accusations against Pilar Sánchez Acera after the recording before a notary of a private conversation by the former general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid, Juan Lobato. “It had already been published in four media outlets,” he simply responded.
López, who, as this newspaper exclusively announced, will embark on the attempt to lead the Madrid socialists and be their candidate for the Community to confront Ayuso, has postponed comments on that political movement. “Starting Monday we will talk about the Socialist Party of Madrid, but there is one objective, a public service mission: to put an end to that pit of corruption that is the Community of Madrid.”
“There are those who have decided to judicialize the political life of this country but there are those of us who are not going to go through that. We are very old, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez will deceive anyone, but not me,” he said in reference to the Madrid president’s chief of staff.
The PSOE ‘rehabilitates’ Chaves and Griñán
After many years of ostracism due to the ERE scandal, Manuel Chaves and Pepe Griñán returned this Saturday to a PSOE event after the Constitutional Court reviewed their sentences. Both have been applauded by the plenary session as a gesture of reconciliation towards the two presidents of the Board.
In the summer, Chaves and Griñán saw the sentences imposed on them by the Provincial Court of Seville annulled by the Constitutional Court and subsequently ratified by the Supreme Court (TS) in the case of the irregular ERE financed by the Andalusian administration during the stage of socialist government.
The Constitutional Court partially upheld the protection appeals of the former socialist presidents, in addition to those of other former senior officials of the Andalusian Government prosecuted in this case, such as former counselor Magdalena Álvarez, also present this Saturday in congress.
Source: www.eldiario.es
