Sanchez warns Figo is using Catalonia’s referendum as a “scarecrow” to try to scare socialist voters

“It does not fall within the Spanish constitution, nor any constitution in the world.” Already on the last day of the campaign, Pedro Sánchez insisted that he would refuse to hold a self-determination referendum, as claimed by ERC in Catalonia and EH Bildu in Basque Country, if he was re-elected prime minister after 23 years. “It’s an old debate on the political scene, which always turns up right as a scarecrow as to whether it can scare away some SWP voters, when in fact, when those referendums were held with the People’s Party in government,” he warned in an interview on TVE.

The independence movement is an outdated ideology, both from the point of view of politics and effectiveness when it comes to being able to solve the grave problems of humanity.”

Pedro SanchezHead of Government

Thus Sánchez asserted that his rejection of the referendum on self-determination, or the amnesty demanded by the Catalan independence movement, was “not future”. He was thus warned that he had already shown since his arrival at Moncloa, five years before, that both roads were blind. And they will continue to do so if next Sunday he can re-verify the position for another four years. The PSOE leader insisted on looking to the future, not discussions that, in his opinion, were from the past. He said that “Independence is an outdated ideology, both from the point of view of politics and effectiveness when it comes to being able to solve the serious and common problems plaguing humanity.”

Despite the fact that Alberto Núñez Viejo is focusing his campaign on condemning Sanchez’s alliances with ERC and Bildu, the chief executive has insisted that “governance is an order and something to agree on laws”. He thus ensured that the People’s Party actually governed in three autonomous communities with the far right of Vox, while agreeing with the nationalist and pro-independence forces to agree to advances in rights and freedoms, to re-evaluate pensions or to raise the minimum wage. And he has shown himself very willing to continue to do so in the next legislature: “There is no doubt about it,” he told interviewers, Silvia Inzarondo and Mark Sala.

Sanchez confirms that in this legislature he did not submit to the orders of the ERC and EH Bildu: “I did not surrender”

In this sense, and despite Feijóo’s attacks on this wing, Sánchez gave as an example that he is not attached to the ERC and EH Bildu the impossibility of repealing the so-called PP Gag in this legislature, despite the fact that it was one of his inauguration obligations. He said about the allegations of these pro-independence formations: “I did not surrender.” He indicated in this way that after reaching an agreement with Unidas Podemos he was forced to negotiate with the ERC and EH Bildu in search of a majority of 176 seats in which he could override the most harmful aspects of the PP’s Citizen Security Standard, but that both parties “took the opportunity to incorporate other elements” into the negotiations.

Sanchez said no. “I cannot accept leaving the national police without protection,” the head of government stressed.

However, the leader of the Socialist Socialist Party reaffirmed his commitment to cancel all aspects of this law that he considers the most harmful, if after 23 J he achieves a large parliamentary majority with the Sumar program led by Yolanda Diaz.

The leader of the Socialist Socialist Party demands a large parliamentary majority with Sumar that does not force him to negotiate his laws “with 15 parties” as in this legislature.

Sánchez reiterated his conviction that the Socialist Socialist Party on Sunday will once again be the leading political force, in such a way that he can re-enact a progressive coalition government with Díaz, in contrast to the “coalition government of lies” he attributed to the PCP and Fox. He pointed out that “I aspire to win the elections, to rule in coalition with Yolanda Diaz’s party and to have a large enough parliamentary majority so that when the cabinet approves the laws, we will have to negotiate in parliament, but not with 15 parties as we had to do as a result of the parliamentary split.”