“This ‘sanchismo’ thing is a bubble that has been inflated over the last five years based on three things: lies, manipulation and malice.” The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, took advantage this Sunday of the interview that Jordi Évole gave him on his program ‘The thing about Évole’, in La Sexta, to warn of the risks that after the general elections of July 23 there could be a government of PP and Vox. But also to try to dismantle one of the main arguments of the right in the pre-campaign: the permanent allusion to ‘sanchismo’ and the promise of its repeal.
The left turns against the PP and Vox pacts to try to reverse the polls one month after 23J
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Sánchez has assured that that of the right is a “Trumpist strategy” that involves “the dehumanization of the political adversary”, the “questioning of the electoral results” when they are not the ones they like and “the breach of legality”. And the three conditions have been followed by the PP with the connivance of the extreme right. In fact, the President of the Government considers that one of his main mistakes in recent years has been “not having paid attention to the corrosive factor and the poison that the “political, media and economic” right-wing were introducing into society with “this of ‘sanchismo’”.
After recalling some of the achievements of his administration, such as the increase in the minimum interprofessional wage, the revaluation of pensions, the approval of the labor reform and laws such as housing and euthanasia, Sánchez has accused the right of “inflating the bubble” of “sanchismo” to “overshadow” the management of the progressive government. And all of this based on “lies”, such as the one that maintains that he never wanted to govern with United We Can, or “manipulations” such as the use of the Falcon for his displacements.
“Manipulation is to say that I am a person willing to do anything to continue in the Falcon when it is a means of transport for the personalities of this country, which was bought by Aznar. I have made the same use of this means of transport as the rest of the presidents of the Government ”, he remarked.
In addition, in that same strategy Sánchez situates “evil” launched by the right and its media terminals such as “using the name of a murderer, Txapote, and trivializing and trivializing the suffering of many victims as Consuelo Ordóñez has said.” Or for saying that ETA existed “when it was defeated twelve years ago”, or that “ETA is within the Government”. “My mistake has been not having been able to assess the consequences of this ‘anti-Sanchismo’ bubble that has been generated by some interests”, he lamented. “I have not evaluated the consequences that all this poison that they have inoculated in Spanish society has had.”
“There are many things at stake” on 23J
All in all, Sánchez has been convinced that he will be able to continue in the Government after 23J. “I’m going to win the elections,” he remarked. “We are going to have a progressive majority. We are going to win the elections in votes and seats, but I will have to add in this case with Yolanda ”, he added, alluding to Sumar, the formation founded by the second vice president and Minister of Labor. The head of the Executive has recognized the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a “good leader”. Although, straight away, he has added: “I hope that the opposition.” He has also confessed that, in his opinion, Feijóo “has been a huge disappointment” since he was in charge of the PP because, like Pablo Casado or Isabel Díaz Ayuso, “he has once again taken refuge in the usual, ‘sanchismo'” and in “manipulating, lying and launching evil.”
During the interview, which took place last week at the legendary Casa Labra tavern in Madrid, the place where the PSOE was founded, Sánchez assured that after the regional and municipal 28M “citizens” have seen that in the agreements between PP and Vox incorporate “free spaces, they say, for LGTBI” or that “prohibit demonstrations against sexist violence in town halls after sexist murders.” “We have to be aware that there are many things at stake, perhaps things that we now take for granted,” he warned.
Among the causes of the debacle of the left on 28M Sánchez has also cited the “dispersion of the vote in a multiparty fragmentation” to the left of the PSOE. That is why he has celebrated that Díaz has “managed to unite all that space” in the face of the generals, assuming that the Socialists will need Sumar to maintain Moncloa. The President of the Government has also predicted that on 23J there will be “a high turnout”, “between 73% and 76%”. “Let’s not underestimate the power of politics and voting,” he insisted.
Taking stock of the legislature, Sánchez recalled the pandemic and recognized that there were times when he was not strong enough. “I would go to bed and wake up drenched in sweat two hours later,” he pointed out. He believed that he was COVID, but they did several tests on him and he always came back negative. “The doctors told me that he had a high level of stress,” he said. He has also confessed to crying “with anger and frustration” during the epidemic.
In addition to regretting the “indiscriminate attacks” suffered by his wife during the legislature, Sánchez has assured that what has hurt him the most has been that they have tried to assimilate him with ETA, that “the contribution” of the PSOE to the end of violence or hearing in Congress that “the executioners have prevailed over the victims.” In this sense, he has recognized that during his tenure he has rectified and corrected “mistakes”, mainly due to his policy regarding Catalonia but also due to his relationship with EH Bildu.
“With EH Bildu an abysmal distance separates me”
But Sánchez wanted to make several clarifications: “With EH Bildu an abysmal distance separates me. He has to travel a path that he has not yet traveled. And that means that in Euskadi we understand each other with the PNV. Where there has been the ability to join the PNV, the PSOE is what it has done”.
For the head of the Executive, “the biggest mistake of the legislature” of a “feminist government” like his “that has approved 200 laws” has been “having made a technical error in the law of only yes that caused some effects unwanted, which is the reduction of sentences for sexual offenders.” “For me, it is the most important mistake we have made,” he insisted. Despite this, Sánchez has acknowledged that at no time did he think of dismissing the Minister for Equality, Irene Montero. “I never had that termination on the table,” he stressed, before remarking that he “always” has “put stability first” in his government.
Évole has asked him about his relationship with some of the main businessmen in the country and has said that the contacts have always been “respectful and professional.” However, Sánchez has accused several of these businessmen of being “behind those media terminals that are constantly saying ‘how bad sanchismo is'”. For the head of the Executive, there is a “disproportion” between “ultra-conservative visions versus progressive ones” in numerous television gatherings. He has regretted that Jorge Javier Vázquez no longer has a television program and, at the same time, has shown his willingness to come to be interviewed by Ana Rosa Quintana, with whom he has said he has not had a relationship “for a long time”. .
He also wanted to make clear the reasons why he is going to the media that he has not set foot in during the entire legislature: “I have to be everywhere to puncture this bubble of lies, manipulation and evil.”