He Federal Committee of the PSOE, the most important congress of the party, has become a massive event to ask the president, Pedro Sánchez, to stay at the head of the Government just 48 hours before making a decision on the matter. The members of the Committee, at the initiative of the Organization Secretary, Santos Cerdán, have interrupted the speeches, which were very harsh against the opposition, and the conclave meeting to go out to Ferraz Street, where some 12,500 peopleAccording to data from the Government Delegation, they have gathered along the entire artery in support of Sánchez. María Jesús Montero, Óscar Puente, Félix Bolaños and the rest of the members of the Committee, very excited and some in tears, have gone out into the street to join the rally, where the song ‘Quédate’, by Quevedo, has been played, in addition to ‘ Dog’, by Raffaella Carrà, or The International. Nevertheless, Sánchez has not given any public signal nor to the party after the event, although he has received their videos and support, according to socialist sources, which indicate that he has remained “encapsulated” since Wednesday. “We hope it helps make a decision,” they point out.
The first supporters began to gather at the headquarters at seven in the morning, but the members of the Committee, led by the vice president, María Jesús Montero, did not meet until ten thirty. In his speech, very energetic and hard cAgainst the opposition and the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, he has addressed Sánchez directly to send him a “resounding” message that has been repeated inside and outside Ferraz throughout the morning of this Saturday: “Pedro, stay. We are with you”, He launched. “That being brave does not cost so much, that truths do not have complexes, that lies seem like lies and that the heart does not go out of style,” said Montero, who focused his speech on attacking the “lies, the hoaxes” and the “verbal violence” of the “right and the extreme right” and defending the emotional content of Sánchez’s letter. He also had words for his wife, Begoña Gómez; “Begoña, partner, we are all with you”he transferred.
The PSOE pressures Sánchez and charges against the “hoaxes” of the right
Of the twenty planned interventions, finally only 9 members of the Committee spoke: Montero, Eneko Andueza, Salvador Illathe three socialist regional presidents – among them Emiliano García-Page -, Teresa Ribera, Oscar Puente and Santos Cerdán, who was the one who urged people to go out on the street after noon. Andueza, a candidate in the Basque elections that were held last week, also addressed Sánchez to ask him to stay: “You have to continue, but if we lower our arms, we will be giving the green light to hatred, attacks, animosity.” , to see the adversary as an enemy and we cannot allow it,” he launched, urging him to think about the struggle of people like the founder of the PSOE, Pablo Iglesias Posse, the former minister Carme Chacón or the former general secretary of the PSOE, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, as well as in the socialists who “perished in the gutters, in the cemeteries, who suffered in prison” or that they had to look “under the car” because of ETA. Salvador Illa, who is in the middle of the electoral campaign, wanted to respect his “period of personal reflection”, “the first thing is you and your family”, but he conveyed to him the “excitement” that would make him have his presence at the rallies.
Teresa Riberawhich was ratified this Saturday as the head of the list for the European elections, claimed the “bitchy” nature of the socialists against the opposition’s disqualifications: “They can call us dogs, we are faithful and loyal, defenders of the rights, of the future of the Spanish people. We are Pedigüeños, bambis and dogs“, he alleged, ensuring that what the socialists were not “in any case” are “illegitimates and people without values.” And while the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, asked right to stop “poisoning and muddying public life” and urged Sánchez to make the “correct” decision, the baron most critical of Sánchez, the Castilian-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, said he empathized with the President of the Government and reproached Carles Puigdemont his lack of it for saying that “he comes home crying.” “Says whoever left Spain on a car hood”, he reproached him, after which he also attacked the right and the extreme right for their attacks. “They are not going to take away the morale of this party, and even less so those who do not have it,” he asserted.
12,500 people to the rhythm of ‘Stay’
After almost two hours of interventions, the members of the Committee broke into Ferraz Street, where thousands of people gathered with signs supporting Sánchez and chanting slogans asking him to stay and against the “attacks” of the right. The first to come out was María Jesús Montero, who began to hug and shake hands with several of those gathered shouting “strength.” Several of her classmates were visibly moved and even with tears in their eyeslike Félix Bolaños, Óscar Puente or Francina Armengol, when supporters shouted at them “you are not alone.”
Many of those gathered in front of the Ferraz headquarters arrived very early, among them, Evelinda, a Cuban woman who lives in Madrid who, in statements to 20 minutes He defended his attendance out of “conviction, in support of Sánchez and his policies.” “The right is cruel, inhuman,” said the woman, very sure that Sánchez will continue to be president because “he has been through a lot and has known how to overcome it.”
José Manuel was also sure of it, “of course yes, we want him to stay,” he indicated, “excited” and after having arrived at nine in the morning in order to “end the reactionary right.” Blanca also arrived first in Ferraz after taking a bus at six in the morning in Valladolid. “We must defend democracy and our president has come out of the polls and has agreed in a parliament in a consensual manner and that is why we are here,” she pointed out with the camera in her hand and a badge with the message ‘Stay’.
The culmination of the day was musical, precisely when The song ‘Quédate’, by Quevedo, sounded, which was sung and danced by both the militancy and the structure. of the party. As well as the anthem of the International, which has put an end to the fusion between what was happening inside Ferraz and outside, and a day in which The socialists have turned to close ranks with Pedro Sánchez.
