The general secretary of the PSOE and president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accompanies the socialist candidate for the Extremadura elections, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, this Sunday at an event in Cáceres. This visit comes with several cases of sexual harassment in the PSOE and with several arrests and entry of the UCO into three ministries to request information. “Of course it is worth governing, even under these circumstances,” Sánchez assured.
The President of the Government has criticized that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asks for elections when, according to him, he could have been president: “I do not understand why Feijóo asks for elections every year if, according to him, he could have been president and did not want to. There is one thing on which we both agree: neither of us want him to be President of the Government.” Sánchez has also referred to the president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello García, who has also asked for early elections: “The president of the Episcopal Church says that Spain has three options: motion of censure, question of confidence or early elections. It is still curious because they never say it when the right governs. What I tell Mr. Arguello is that there is a fourth option: respect the electoral result, even if you don’t like it.” And he added: “The time in which bishops interfered in politics ended when democracy ended in our country.”
For his part, the socialist candidate, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, has also made reference in his words to the cases of harassment and corruption in the socialist ranks: “It is true that this week we have experienced situations that have embarrassed us all. But they also show that our party is that of equality and feminism and in our party there is no room for those who say that they are colleagues, but that they are whores and abusers,” Gallardo assured in his speech.
Furthermore, Gallardo has accused the Extremaduran president and PP candidate, María Guardiola, of “hiding” for having refused to participate in debates. Furthermore, he has criticized the PP’s relationship with Vox: “Guardiola has been paying attention to what Feijóo tells him and Feijóo to what Abascal tells him.”
This Sunday’s event is at the San Francisco Cultural Complex in the capital of Cáceres and has also included the intervention of the local secretary of the PSOE in Cáceres, Belén Fernández. This is Pedro Sánchez’s third visit to Extremadura within the electoral agenda for the regional elections, after he participated in a pre-campaign event in Mérida on November 19, and on Thursday of last week he opened the PSOE campaign in Plasencia.
