Mínguez (PSOE): “Every pact between the PP and Vox is a right that citizens lose”
The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, has been convinced that the PP and Vox will reach government agreements in Extremadura, Aragón and Castilla y León. “We are going to see sadness” in these communities, he predicted, with the only doubt of “seeing which community Genoa 14 chooses to sacrifice first, which leader submits first to the demands of [el líder de Vox, Santiago] Abascal. And he has regretted that these agreements are going to occur: “Each pact with Vox has a price, it is a right that citizens lose.”
After the party leadership meeting, Mínguez congratulated Carlos Martínez “for the improvement in votes and seats obtained” in the elections in Castilla y León, with an increase of two seats, 14,000 votes and 0.7 points, “reaffirming the PSOE, which is consolidating itself as the only real alternative to the PP” in a community in which the right has governed uninterruptedly since 1987.
The leader has not linked the result to the fact that Martínez, mayor of Soria since 2007 and general secretary of his federation for a year, has not supported Pedro Sánchez in the primaries of 2014 and 2017. “Each territory has its own uniqueness but what I can say is that the PSOE is a serious organization, which lets the leadership be chosen by the territories themselves, not like the PP that puts people in and out at hand. We are a very serious party in which the leadership is elected by the militancy itself and Carlos Martínez is a candidate who has been mayor, solvent, very close, with a lot of knowledge of Castilla y León and who is going to exercise that leadership. If the elections had gone badly, he would be a Sanchista and if the elections have gone well, he is not a Sanchista. Pilar Alegría in Aragón and María Jesús Montero in the next Andalusian ones.
“We are a very serious party, Montero and Alegría won their primaries, their internal processes, and they are the candidates. We are a serious party, we listen to the territory. Now in Extremadura there are four pre-candidates, therefore we listen to the territory,” Mínguez insisted.
Regarding the result of Podemos and Sumar, extra-parliamentary in Castilla y León after competing separately, the PSOE spokesperson has stated that she considers that “the left of the left needs a reflection, we are seeing it in these electoral processes.” “Hopefully this debate will be generated to unify forces on the left of the PSOE,” he concluded.
