I have been very happy for a few days because since the end of last week we learned that M. Rajoy was going to be censored as president of the Spanish Government, with the support of 180 diverse deputies who were clear that the PP had to be evicted from the State institutions, for corrupt, and M. Rajoy for being a liar, which was an important reason for satisfaction for broad sectors of the population.
The joy of many people contrasts with the collective catharsis of the PP that said goodbye to M. Rajoy in the middle of sobs.
It is still curious that those who have not shed a single tear for the looting of public coffers, for corruption, or for the countless sufferings they have inflicted on the population of this country in recent years, cry because we have kicked them out of the government.
We have had 7 very long years of suffering, setbacks and cuts. From the merciless labor reform that emptied the labor rights conquered for decades and has turned employment into absolute precariousness, to the educational reform that imposed setbacks such as revalidations, overcome 50 years ago by the General Law of Education of 1970.
During this six-year term, our freedoms have been cut with the application and approval of the Gag Law, with dire consequences. They have cut thousands of millions of euros in health, education, dependency; that is, in our rights, to give that money to bankers and builders of toll highways and airports that are not used.
The PP has been governing for the powerful, against the interests of the social majority, which it has impoverished, which it has subjected to unemployment and precarious employment, all seasoned with high doses of fear and absolute control over the public media, which we pay with our taxes, and the connivance of the majority of the private media, which are controlled by those for whom they have been governing.
Among all, they have shared the cake of the general state budgets, which are the result of our taxes.
Among all, they have embezzled an important part of public money, which, according to the judges, has served so that the Popular Party has gone to electoral processes playing with an advantage over the rest, by having higher income of illegal origin, or that M. Rajoy himself has been considered by the National Court, in this first sentence of the Gürtel case, as not very credible in his statements as a witness before the judges themselves.
The imprisonment of former minister Zaplana, together with the sentence of the National Court, formed the perfect storm so that no one, except those of Rivera and deputy Oramas of the Canarian Coalition, came out in support of the corrupt PP and against the rest.
However, a first sign that makes us alert is the good reception of Mrs. Botín to the ministers of Economy and Finance. What is good for Banco de Santander cannot also be good for the impoverished social majority.
From Unidos Podemos we have shown our support for Sánchez from the first minute, without conditions. We have suggested that it would be good for the stability and cohesion of a government if we were part of it.
But it is clear that it will be Sánchez who makes the decisions, hopefully with a greater degree of autonomy with respect to those who really decide in the PSOE and in the country.
It is urgent that Spanish Radio Television return to the hands of professionals and recover the public service function.
It is urgent that the Gag Law not continue to be applied and that we recover freedom of expression.
It is urgent that a permanent dialogue table be established between the Sánchez government and the Generalitat, and that the courts are not exclusively the ones that determine relations and resolve differences, since we are playing a lot in this process.
It is essential to try to ensure that the application of budgets conceived as antisocial by the PP, Cs, PNV, CC and NC, which supported them, can be applied with a bias of attending to people's rights.
And that the construction of the Budgets for 2019 be through a negotiated and consensual process, preferably aimed at attention to dependency, to pensioners, to the improvement of health and education. And fundamentally, to undertake, with transversal policies, the great problem of our society: poverty and social exclusion.
It is absolutely essential that we advance in equality policies, in breaking the current wage gap between women and men. We must walk for real, and not with bombastic statements and minutes of silence only, in the fight against sexist violence.
Do some say that there is no program? Well, the more than forty law initiatives proposed in the Spanish Parliament and that, one after another, have been rejected for processing by that right-wing majority that make up the PP and those of Rivera, just by recovering them, would already give to make significant progress in the lives of the citizens of this country.
We don't start from scratch. We have been working hard within the institutions for two years. Therefore, it is enough to recover the rejected laws and maintain a relationship of constant dialogue and consensus to produce significant advances in the next two years that, in addition, are going to be perceived by society as a return to the tortilla of cuts, reforms and sufferings.
Advances that will also lead us to expand our presence in town halls, councils, regional governments and the European Parliament in 2019. And in 2020, we will win the general elections for the social majority.
The corrupt and their support from Cs and the Canarian Coalition must be urgently sent to the opposition, so that they do not continue to govern against the interests of the social majority.
We cannot allow expectations to be disappointed.
For that reason, with greater eagerness, if possible, we have to continue in the streets, mobilized.
Because it is the best way to prevent our expectations from being frustrated and to, if necessary, defend together with the governments the possible progressive policies that the right is going to criticize mercilessly.
By Manuel Marrero Morales, Deputy of the Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group
