“Spain saves the honor of Europe”

Far from reculating before the offensive of the right by the frustrated end of the Cyclist Vuelta to Spain, the president of the Government has shown on Monday his “respect and admiration” for the protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza that have happened throughout the country during the competition and that managed to stop the final stage in Madrid this Sunday. “We always reject violence and feel a deep admiration for our athletes and cyclists. That is why their security was put ahead. But we also feel a deep respect and admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice and defends their idea peacefully,” he said during his speech at Congress before the PSOE parliamentarians.

Pedro Sánchez has even claimed that “reach every corner of the world” the echo of protests in Madrid. “Why did Russia be expelled and not Israel? Our position is clear: until barbarism, neither Russia nor Israel ceases to be in any more international competition. Israel cannot use any international platform to bleach their presence. Sports institutions must consider whether it is ethical to keep Israel in international competitions,” he demanded.

The president has also claimed the Spanish foreign policy deployed in response to the slaughter perpetrated by the Netanyahu government. Sanchez recalled the Spanish impulse to the recognition of the Palestinian State or the application for the European Union to suspend its commercial agreement with Israel until the end of violence.

“Having your own voice only uses something when you dare to defend something you think, not as a government, but the social majority. We claim the right thing, which is to be on the side of the victims, not the aggressors. They told us we were alone, but it was only that we were the first. Today Spain is the one who saves the honor of Europe,” he said during his speech.

In the traditional interparliamentary intervention of the PSOE at the beginning of the political course, Pedro Sánchez has not spared in the right message. Especially incisive have been, for example, against the president of the Community of Madrid. The President has broken down the resources allocated by his government to finance this territory and the purpose that, as he has raised, gives him the Madrid president.

“My government has allocated 130,000 million euros to the Community of Madrid from 2019 to 2025. That is, 43,000 million additional euros with respect to what Mariano Rajoy transferred. What has the government of Mrs. Ayuso done with that money? As it has derived less than half, specifically 45%, to public services.”

At that point, Sánchez has directly pointed to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, investigated for tax fraud, as one of the people who benefit from the policies deployed by her partner to the detriment of the general interest of the Madrid. “What has he done with the rest of the money? Well, he has returned it through fiscal gifts to the great fortunes of the capital, by value, for example, of 5,000 million euros, and in contracts to the Quirón company and many other companies worth 1,000 million euros. A round business for achievers such as Alberto González Amador, which multiplied his income for seven in a year.”

“And that is terrible news for seven million citizens in Madrid, whom every day it is more difficult to get a medical appointment or an education square for their sons and daughters,” he continued.

In his speech he also pointed to the “political collapse” that, in his opinion, suffers the “traditional right” by “smelling” with the ultra -right “in the background and in form.” “If they have opted for insults, there they, we chose to govern. We are the representatives of a social democracy that, yes or yes, will make its way in Europe in the coming years. We have to be the light in these dark times,” he proclaimed.

In addition, he announced that the Government will send today the proposal of the National Housing Plan to the Autonomous Communities to reach 7,000 million euros of investment in the next five years. And he has insisted on the commitment that the Executive “will triple the money it transfers to make housing policy to all those autonomous communities that commit to invest the same.”

Sanchez has also announced a new rental aid with the purchase of almost 30,000 euros “so that young people can reside for years in a house with permanent protection and end up acquiring it.” And new aid of up to 10,800 euros for the purchase of housing in the rural environment.

Right criticism

From the PP, the criticisms of the government have fallen in cascade by the frustrated end of the Cyclist return to Spain. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has held the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on Monday, for the protests for the end of the genocide in Gaza who ended Sunday with the cancellation of the last stage of the Cycling Tour as she passed through Madrid. Ayuso believes that Sánchez encouraged this demonstration with his statements: “He is the only person in Spain who is happy today with what happened.”

In statements for Esradio, Ayuso has valued the massive protest as a “rupture project” against the policies of the community and the Madrid City Council, a “scheduled attack to discredit” the image of the region, and has not responded to the popular clamor for a high fire. In addition, he has criticized the security device sent by the Government delegation, whom he has accused of “lying” with the number of troops that “promised”: “It was impossible to stop that.”

Along the same lines, the former president of the Government, José María Aznar, has accused the chief of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, of being “an animator of the Kale Borroka”, and has argued that if this “wins the violence” for the Palestinian cause to “cover” his “situation of suffocating corruption”, he can also do it on other occasions “if it suits him”.

“We have to be prepared for the worst things,” said the former president of the Government in an interview in ‘The Ar’ Program of Telecinco, which Europa Press has collected, in which he has described as “greatly serious” that Sánchez “encourages the protests” because “a line that transcends” the cycling return to Spain.

Aznar has lamented that at the head of the Executive there is a “corrupt and incompetent populism”, and that in Moncloa there is “an animator of the Kale Borroka, an animator of violence”, which could call the disturbances later. “Just as you encourage protesters who exercise violence against a cycling, why don’t you encourage them against anything else if you suit you?”

The response voices have also happened from the government. The Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, has accused the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, if she “encouraged” the protests in the last stage of the Cycling Tour when taking pictures with the Israeli team and “not putting things easy.”

“After having heard Mrs. Ayuso applaud with Ardor a few days ago a miserable justification of Israeli attacks I do not know how they can dare to point out that no one encourages anything without looking in the mirror,” he said in an interview in the SER chain. Martín has insisted that Sunday’s incidents in Madrid were “minimum”, solved “effectively” by the police After criticism of the PP.

For his part, the Minister of Digital Transformation and candidate of the PSOE to the Community of Madrid, Óscar López, has celebrated the reaction of the thousands of people who frustrated the last stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza. “The people of Madrid have shouted into the world against the genocide and favor of peace. And that is a reason for pride and nothing else,” said Europa Press.

López has also extolled foreign policy deployed by the Government of Spain to which it belongs in relation to the massacre perpetrated in Palestine by the Benjamin Netanyahu executive. “Pedro Sánchez is getting the world to move. And he has led the recognition of the Palestinian State or Aid to UNRWA,” he said.

The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, also congratulated the Police for his work on an “absolutely sufficient” device at the end of the Cycling Tour of Spain in Madrid, a stage that ended up canceled by the protests against Israel’s genocide. “The police had to guarantee the security and the right to demonstration and managed a complex situation in terms of proportionality,” said the minister.

Marlaska, who has wanted the recovery of the injured police, has left the criticisms of the right to the government. “I saw the image of a society committed to peace in the world and absolutely professional security forces that are the envy of any democratic state. I do not understand what other image would want to have seen some,” he said.