Pedro Sánchez has gone from asking Pablo Casado for a sense of state to imploring him. The President of the Government seems to no longer know how to act in the face of the PP’s constant criticism of the management of European funds and has begged the leader of the opposition not to “jeopardize” the receipt of these items. “Blocking European funds is not blocking the Government of Spain, it is blocking growth and the creation of employment”, Sánchez has sentenced days after Casado launched a similar message, recalling that the funds are not from the PSOE, but from Spain.
“Where are those who doubted that we were not going to meet the vaccination objectives? Well, questioning European funds,” Sánchez began. “Look, we already have very broad shoulders and they can criticize the Government… Now, , the only thing I ask of you… I would even say, I implore you not to call European funds into question, because that is putting into question the most important thing for citizens and that is that Spain continues to grow and we continue to create jobs. That they do not put that at risk”, the President of the Government has sentenced in an act in Gijón.
We are facing many changes and managing a pandemic.
There is one thing clear, the Gob. of Spain has not rested a single day to improve the conditions of dignity of our compatriots.
❌ In front of us we have a denialist opposition.
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— PSOE (@PSOE) January 22, 2022
Sánchez’s request comes after several weeks in which the PP has threatened to take the management of the funds to the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and even the European Union itself. The germ of this crusade was an appeal filed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso in court against the distribution of €9 million. The Conservatives denounce that it was done “by finger”, since they were assigned to municipalities or autonomous governments of the PSOE. Casado stressed this Friday that his party “does not rule out any path.”
“Unpatriotic” and “disloyal”
“You have to be patient with them… They carry, not badly, but fatally losing the elections and being in the opposition“, Sánchez joked in the act in which he was with the president of Asturias, Javier Barbon, and the deputy general secretary of the PSOE, Adriana Lastra. “The same ones who called Felipe González pedigüeño are the ones who are now saying that these funds are not necessary for our country or that they are badly managed”, Sánchez has sentenced, recalling the cohesion funds that Spain began to receive after its entry into the European Union.
Lastra, for his part, has denounced that the PP is a “denier party“, “disloyal and unpatriotic” and that “says ‘no’ to everything good for Spain“.