Call for the mobilization of the vote, especially that of women, and to concentrate it on the Socialist Party as the “only guarantee” against the pact between PP and Vox. The Socialists held this Saturday their central act of the 23J campaign in Valencia in which Pedro Sanchez He has appealed to the progress of his government’s social agenda to activate the progressive electorate. Measures in favor of equality for women, minimum wage, improved pensions or housing have served the President of the Government to spur his own in the face of the adversity of the surveys.
“We’ve done it”. The catchphrase has become a constant in the speech of the President of the Government and candidate for re-election in reviewing some of the actions of his executive such as the first housing law of democracy, the increase in the minimum wage, pensions , the reform of the abortion law or the parity law, which finally remained “in the dark”, but which, he has indicated, will carry out the next legislature. It has not been the only promise for the future. Also has promised to increase maternity and paternity leave from 16 weeks to 20 or to make the emancipation of the youth “a national cause” the next mandate.
Sánchez, escorted by the PSPV candidate in Valencia, Diana Morant, and the former president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, who has received tribute both from the public and from the leader of the PSOE himself, has tried to raise the spirits of his people by recalling some of his great past achievements in the face of adversity. “We won primaries twice against all odds, we won a motion of no confidence against all odds, we won two elections against all odds in 2019 and on July 23 we are going to win the elections again”, he indicated between petitions to go to the urns.
Avoid abstention
Avoiding abstention has been placed as one of the objectives among the speeches of the leaders of the fist and the rose. Both the candidate for another four years at the helm of the Government of Spain, as Morant, as Puig, They have appealed to the progressive electorate to go to the polls next Sunday. “An abstention is a setback, you have to go vote for the Socialist Party, you cannot stay a single vote at home,” said Sánchez, who also pointed out that the “only guarantee” to advance is to vote for the Socialists, in a search for the useful vote against Sumar or other regionalist formations.
Likewise, in her call to the feminist electorate, she has focused on what could happen in Spain with a PP and Vox pact and has given an example of some of the events that have already happened in the Valencian Community in recent weeks. The withdrawal of the LGTBI flags in Náquera, the concentration against the sexist murder in Antella in which the president of the Corts, Llanos Massó distanced himself from the official banner because he spoke of condemning “macho violence” or that the Vox candidate, Carlos Flores, is convicted of sexist violence have been some of the mentions. “It’s not a joke,” she added.
“The consequences of the PP making an agreement with a macho party is to see here in the Valencian Community how there are town halls that remove purple attention points from victims of macho violence, that Feijóo justifies a sentence of sexist violence with a harsh divorce and it is to see a president of the Valencian parliament get out of the photo in condemnation of a macho attack & rdquor;, the leader of the socialists has expressed, adding that “in the face of this coalition against the women of PP and Abascal, here is the Socialist Party”.
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Morant and Puig have expressed themselves along the same lines. “Spain wants the advances of women, they do not like us to stray from the minutes of silence that condemn sexist violence or that we have a man convicted of sexist violence who presents himself to represent the Valencians”, has indicated the Science Minister. “We know what has happened here and we have to do everything we can to that it doesn’t happen again”, added Puig addressing directly the 230,000 ex-voters of Compromís and Podem who did not go to vote on 28M.
Tribute to Puig and Bielsa
What will be the main campaign act of the Socialists in the Valencian Community has also coincided with a week in which the loss of institutional power of the PSPV after 28M has been reflected. On Friday, Carlos Fernandez Bielsa, who has been received with a standing ovation from the militancy and has received the support of Puig, could not win the Valencia Provincial Council due to the vote of Ens Uneix, the party of the former socialist leader, Jorge Rodriguez while this Saturday the appointment of Carlos Mazon as president of the Generalitat, a position he no longer holds Ximo Puig after eight years. “You have been a magnificent president of the Valencian Community, you are a source of pride for the whole of Spanish socialism,” Sánchez told him.