Pedro Sanchez wants the meetings of the Council of Ministers during the pre-campaign and the election campaign on May 28 to be led by the social advances. Faced with the “noise & rdquor; of the PP, the President of the Government wants the axis of the elections to be the concrete management. This Monday, from Vitoria, after revolting against the attacks of the conservatives for the candidacies of Bildu with a presence from outsiders, the socialist leader did not make one, but two announcements that the Executive will make a reality immediately.
The first and most important has to do with the early retirement for the disabled. Currently, those people with a disability equal to or greater than 45% must have contributed for at least 15 years to receive this benefit. From now on, it will suffice five years. The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, Jose Luis Escriva, He had already anticipated that the Government was going to take that step. “We hope to give the green light to this modification in very few weeks, since the process is very advanced & rdquor ;, he said at the end of March. Sánchez has set a date for it: it will be in the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, the penultimate before the regional and municipal elections.
The second initiative, the president continued, has to do with the one he himself advanced last Saturday in Seville, so that those who have suffered from cancer stop being “discriminated & rdquor; when they take out loans, insurance or mortgages. In the same sense, the Government will approve a ministerial order tomorrow so that cancer patients or former patients do not have to renew the driver’s license cevery three years, as is currently required, but every 10, like other drivers.
The President of the Government accuses Feijóo of resorting to ETA because he “gives up” the elections
Bildu’s lists
But the rally this Monday in Vitoria, beyond the specific measures, also had an important political content. Sánchez was forced to refer to the main controversy in this first part of the campaign: the electoral lists of EH Bildu, which include 44 applicants convicted of belonging to or collaborating with the dissolved ETA, something that the PP takes advantage of in each intervention to reproach the PSOE leader for his parliamentary alliances with the Aberzale left.
Sánchez, who sees how this issue partly disrupts the discourse of the socialists focused on management, had already discussed Bildu’s candidacies last Friday, from Washington, after meeting with the US president, Joe Biden. But there, to questions from journalists, he was president of the Government, so he limited himself to reproaching the Basque independence movement for a decision that, being “legal”, was not “decent”. This time, in a party act, Sánchez went on the attack, accusing the PP of resorting to ETA because “gives up the elections & rdquor; and “He can’t stand & rdquor; that the terrorist group was “defeated& rdquor; with a socialist government.
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“Today the European Commission has revised its growth forecasts upwards. Spain is going to lead growth among the main economies of the euro area for third year in a row. What is the response of the PP? ETA -said Sánchez, standing up to the audience, some 1,300 people according to the organization-. What does the right have to say about the labour reform that has brought with it better employment and more dignity? ETA. What do you have to say when we have reconstructed the Pact of Toledo and revalued pensionss according to the CPI? ETA. Every time the right has not had nothing to offer to Spain, every time it considers the elections lost, as will happen on May 28, it always uses the same argument: that of ETA. It doesn’t fail. But from the Basque Country I have bad news to give to the right. Spanish democracy defeated ETA 12 years ago, with a socialist government. And that is what the right cannot bear& rdquor ;.
Hours before, also from Euskadi, Alberto Núñez Feijóo He had given signs that he does not intend to leave Bildu aside in these elections. The leader of the PP demanded that Sánchez break in a “solemn and public way & rdquor; with the Aberzale formation and defended a change in party law to prevent the presence of “murderers & rdquor; on the lists. The exetarras of the Bildu candidacies have already fulfilled their disqualification penalties, Therefore, in principle, nothing prevents them from contesting the elections. In any case, Feijóo avoided going as far as the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who directly advocated for the “illegalization & rdquor; of the Basque independentistas.