This Sunday, Pedro Sánchez sent a letter to the PSOE militancy to defend the Government’s position regarding the conflict in the Middle East. Without mentioning it, the general secretary of the socialists and head of the Executive of the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assures that they are on the “right side” and vindicates the measures approved in Congress this week.
Just when it is fulfilled, Sánchez shows his chest about the role his party plays. “When the socialists are in the Government, we act accordingly. We mobilized with Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. We demanded that the Palestinian genocide in Gaza stop. And now we shout, loud and clear, that this illegal war has to end now. And it should also be said clearly: not everyone is in that place. Because there are those who, yesterday as today, hesitate when it is necessary to be firm. Those who hide in ambiguity when it is necessary to take sides. Those who talk about peace, but never bother those who wage war,” he assures in his letter.
“From the first moment Spain was clear about its position. Four words that are not just a political position, but a way of understanding and being in the world: NO TO WAR. Four simple words that encapsulate everything: the memory, the dignity and the commitment of a country. Today I want to share them with you because I am clear that they are born from a collective conscience that I learned 23 years ago,” he says in reference to the mobilizations against the Iraq war that the Executive of José María Aznar supported. “I learned what happens when a government decides to ignore them. When it turns its back on its people and bows to the interests of a foreign power. When the truth is disregarded and a country is placed on the wrong side of history. But, above all, I learned what happens when an entire people rises up with courage and decorum. When millions of people fill the streets to say “not in my name,” recalls the president, who emphasizes that he, like many militants, was “there.” “In those streets we forged something that accompanies us to this day: the certainty that peace is not a slogan, but a conviction,” he adds.
The general secretary of the PSOE also justifies the need for this week in Congress by pointing out that the consequences of the war “are already entering our homes. In the electricity bill. In the purchase price. In the increase in the mortgage. In the uncertainty of so many families.”
Sánchez refers to the decree as “the largest social and economic shield of the entire European Union, with an investment of 5,000 million euros to protect our 20 million homes and three million companies from the most harmful consequences” of the conflict.
“There are moments when you remember why you are in politics. This is one of them. We are here for this. To defend peace. To protect people. To be on the right side when it matters most,” he says before saying goodbye, appealing to the future of the organization and positioning himself as an international “reference.” “Because if we have shown something time and again, it is that the Socialist Party not only has history. It has conscience, it has courage and it has a future. And it has all the strength of those who never give up. More so in moments like this, in which we are not only a reference for many progressives around the world, but for all those who believe in peace, justice, humanity and the slightest common sense,” he concludes.
