The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), has announced this Monday the dissolution of the Cortes and the advancement of the general elections to Sunday, November 29.
The eviction of Maricarmen, the citizen mobilizations that have swept the country demanding a solution to the housing crisis, and the two decrees struck down in Congress have been the turning point of the legislature. The last few months have also been marked by another relevant episode, the entry into Ceuta of more than 80,000 people from Morocco.
In a press conference held early Monday morning at the Moncloa Palace, Sánchez defended the work of his government during the legislature. He also called on Spaniards to decide whether they want Spain to join the "far-right wave" that regresses and curtails rights or if they wish Spain to remain "a bulwark of openness, social justice, and environmental responsibility," a "global benchmark for peace, feminism, and prosperity."
"We have also had to work with a very fractious Congress where many absurdly confuse compromising with betraying and blocking with winning. We have also had to fight against very powerful economic and social elites who do not run in elections, but who want to continue controlling our country," the Spanish leader continued.
A jab at the opposition, "the worst" in democracy
During his speech, Pedro Sánchez also sent a message to the opposition parties, the People's Party and Vox, whom he identified as "the worst opposition our democratic history has known."
"An opposition without any sense of state that has not stopped questioning even the legitimacy of our electoral system, blocking measures and voting against policies that were good for the country and using their regional and municipal power to boycott policies good for ordinary people."
"In this regard, we would simply like to recall that we have transferred more resources than ever to these regional governments so that they could invest in healthcare, in education, so that they could build housing," the Spanish president highlighted. "And they have bought penthouses and privatized hospitals," he continued.
A complex horizon
During his speech, Pedro Sánchez recalled the stance of the Government of Spain on international policy. "To the extent of our possibilities, we have strived to build a better world for our compatriots and also for the rest of humanity, supporting Ukraine, the European Union, and the United Nations in their darkest moments, denouncing genocidaires when others remained silent, fighting tyrants, oligarchs, and also speculators who want to destroy the future of our sons and daughters to line their pockets," he recalled.
Pedro Sánchez pointed out that the time has come for Spaniards to decide what future they want for themselves and for their country. "It is enough to examine the horizon to understand that the world is approaching a very complex era of transformation, of transition," he continued. "An era of much tension, of climate emergency, of social and also technological changes, with very disruptive artificial intelligence. An era, therefore, of great dangers, but also, if we know how to take advantage of it, of great opportunities," he concluded.
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