Politics

Socialist Sanchez is presented as the embodiment of political change in Spain

Investiture session

USPA NEWS - The Socialist candidate for Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, was presented Tuesday during his speech at the start of the investiture session in Parliament, as the champion of change, customized himself. Sanchez made continuous calls for dialogue and agreements between the leftist forces.
"Exit this session without agreement will mean that we have wronged our work," said Pedro Sanchez at the beginning of his speech, a speech during which harshly criticized the acting Prime Minister and leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), Mariano Rajoy, for having twice rejected his nomination as a candidate for investiture. "If I'm here, if we're all because I did not understand the order of the Head of State as an invitation, but as an inescapable custom," said the Socialist candidate. He also criticized the conservative absolute majority of the previous legislature, recalling that "for four years in this House, has been dispensed with dialogue."
"Abandon policies Rajoy and the PP," he urged Pedro Sanchez deputies of the parliamentary left, especially the deputies of the extreme left populist displayed in Podemos and the communists of the United Left, who have announced their vote against after the agreement by the socialists with the centrist Citizens, which they accuse of being an appendage of the PP. "With the PP can't promote a change of Government, much less a government of change," said Pedro Sanchez and claimed that "Spain urgently needs a Government and a change."
But change, recognized the candidate needs dialogue and agreements. "If you want change, we need dialogue and only then get the deal," he said. "Where is the problem? Why not make a Government that make effective what unites us most?" he asked parliamentarians, who recalled that "we are able to achieve a Government of change where the common good is above acronyms".
Pedro Sanchez, "is a mistake to believe that the one who has more votes have to govern," he said regarding the fact that his party lost the legislative elections of December 2015. And defended the agreement with Citizens because "to worst of measures agreement PSOE-Citizens is better to keep in office Rajoy." Sanchez tried to regain the support of leftist groups, which on Wednesday will know whether it has succeeded. The session will resume Wednesday at 9 am local time (7 am GMT) with the response of opposition groups. At night, the vote will be held, in which absolute majority Pedro Sanchez needs to be invested.
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