Philip Gonzalez has vindicated the socialist memory to build the future of Spain in the central act of 40th anniversary of the victory of Socialist Party, that the party has celebrated today in Seville. A meeting in which Felipe González shared the limelight with the President of the Government and current leader of the party, Pedro Sánchez, and which was attended by about 4,000 people, some standing due to lack of capacity.
under the motto 40 years of democracy. 40 years of progress.1982-2022, the PSOE wanted the act to be a kick-off to the electoral cycle budding and revulsive for the militancy, and that sealed the difficult relationship of the PSOE with its own history. The latter has only been partially achieved after the controversy surrounding alfonso war, the other part of the tandem of the socialist victory of 82.
The first to want to close the wound was Felipe González himself, who he began his speech precisely by mentioning Guerra because he has recognized that if he remembers October 28 of that year with his heart “I try to look and I can’t find that singular character who raised my hand at the Palace who was Alfonso Guerra & rdquor ;, to which the audience has responded with a loud applause.
González has also not avoided talking about current issues and, although without mentioning it directly, he has urged the Popular Party to abide by the law after the blow to the agreement regarding the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). “If you don’t like the law, you have the right to change it, but not to break it.”
Who does not know where it comes from
In his speech, Felipe González has reviewed some of the progress made in those years and has vindicated the past as a guarantee for the future. “Whoever does not know where he comes from does not know where he is going, and I am not telling you so that you pay attention to a bloody 80-year-old man, but so that you have a sense of direction and future & rdquor ;, he said.
The former Prime Minister has acknowledged that he lived the night of the victory “scared & rdquor; among other things because he had just learned that a coup d’état had been dismantled the night before and that he was aware of the opportunity that the left had by returning to govern in Spain after the dictatorship.
Gonzalez believes that the entrance in Europe meant the consolidation of Spanish democracy as a European democracy and has valued the effort to modernize a country with appalling infrastructures and even with villages where there was not even electricity or running water in the houses.
Likewise, the former president recalled that in 1982 the foundations of the welfare state were laid, with the creation of the national health system, thanks to the efforts of Ernest Lluch, assassinated by ETA, a century and a half after France had it; of the concerted education system that, he has said, has been degrading little by little, or the pension system and the creation of Imserso.
⚖️ Rights, obligations and justice must be for everyone equally.
➡️ If someone doesn’t like a Law, they have the right to change it, but what they don’t have the right to do is break it.
? Philip Gonzalez#40del82 pic.twitter.com/91eoUsZ8ly
— PSOE (@PSOE) October 29, 2022
And he has recalled the approach of that Executive formed only by men of the great questions of Spain, such as the social question, the religious question –“We knew that the Liberals were eatcures but they wanted their wives to go to confession every week”– and the fight against inequality that defines “our horizon and our struggle & rdquor ;. In this sense, González has urged the Government and Minister María Jesús Montero to continue advancing in the redistribution of income through a tax reform and in the pre-distribution of wealth in Spain. Also, he has mentioned the socialist advances in the military issue, which allow him to say today that “we have Armed Forces that we can be proud of & rdquor ;.
Although he has not spoken of errors, González has recognized that the territorial issue and the development of the autonomous state were positive to decentralize Spain politically, but not “to spin power and confront each other & rdquor ;.
recover coexistence
González has said that his concern when he came to the Government focused on how to recover coexistence among Spaniards, “in peace and freedom & rdquor ;, and that today the number 1 priority continues to be coexistence that must be preserved as a treasure so that “we do not take you back to the old days of the 19th and 20th century”.
On October 28, 1982, the PSOE swept with an absolute majority of 202 deputies, a record that he still holds as well as that of remaining in the Government for 4 legislatures. 40 years ago, more than 10 million Spaniards bet on the change represented by that leader of a modern and Europeanist left, in a Spain where democracy was still shivering and had to defend itself against the coup plotters and ETA terrorism.
Those who have gone and those who have not
Related news
The PSOE arrived at this act entangled in the controversy of the invitations not sent on time by Ferraz to the another great protagonist of the historical deed of 1982Alphonso Guerra. The former number 2 of the PSOE and González’s tandem in the transition did not attend the rally, as he announced a few days ago when he ironically dismissed the slip of not having been summoned to the victory party by his own party. “That I wasn’t there 40 years ago? Great, there would be others,” he said in an interview in South Channel Radio. The socialist leaders of AragonJavier Lambán; NavarreMaria Chivite; Asturias, Adrian Barbon; Y The Rioja, Concha Andreu; nor the former presidents of the Junta de Andalucía Jose Antonio Grinan Y Manuel Chavez, sentenced by the Supreme Court for the case of the ERE.
On the other hand, supporting González and Sánchez, the secretary of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espada, and the former president of the Board and senator, Susana Díaz, were present at the event; Guillermo Fernandez Vara, president of Estremadura or the president of BalearicsFrancina Arengol, in addition to ministers such as Maria Jesus Montero, Luis Planas, Pilar Alegría and Isabel Rodríguez.