“The right cannot get its way”

“Support” and “respect” for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “in a difficult moment.” That was himThe only reaction that Sumar showed this Wednesday two hours after Sánchez made public a letter in which he announced that he will take until Monday to “reflect” whether he should “continue at the head of the Government or resign from this high honor” due to the harassment that, he claims, the opening of a judicial case to investigate the activities of his wife, Begoña Gómez, due to a complaint by the far-right association Manos Médicas.

In a very brief tweet, the leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz stated that “the right’s offensive cannot get its way.” “We must defend democracy, the progressive bloc and the legitimacy of the coalition government that has improved people’s lives so much,” Díaz also noted.

Along the same lines, a few minutes later Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress, Íñigo Errejón, showed his support for Sánchez and denounced that “every time the right does not govern in Spain makes the climate unbreathable and makes those who are on the front line pay a very high price.” “What is behind this, beyond personal issues, is a deeply unequal distribution of power in Spain, for which when the right does not govern, strategies are generated from the State and economic power” to avoid social transformations, Errejón argued.

Much more expressive was the leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, who in the same way showed her “solidarity and empathy with President Sánchez.” “At We Can we know well what it means lawfare and media persecution”Belarra also pointed out, who however also criticized the PSOE by pointing out that “we should have stopped them when they harassed the vice president and a government minister in their own home,” in reference to Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero.

“Still, we think that It is always time to defend democracy, despite the high price it entails. Either democracy prevails or the reactionaries win. The democratization of the judiciary and the media is a democratic urgency,” concluded the general secretary of Podemos.

Montero herself, former Minister of Equality and purple candidate for the European elections, also wanted to express her “affection” for Sánchez. “We know well what they are going through and that it is important not to be alone,” said Montero, who insisted that “The task is urgent: do not look the other way“If not, they will continue to rule without running for elections and destroying democracy,” he warned.

The ERC spokesperson in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, spoke along the same lines with a solemn “rather broken than bent.” “Those who harassed Irene Montero for months in front of her children, who politically killed Mónica Oltra with a lie and those who convinced you that perhaps it was okay to put people in jail for a referendum are now going after a PSOE that many times He looked the other way when he passed,” but “today we can only support and endure,” he said.

For their part, EH Bildu sources confessed their “surprise” at President Sánchez’s announcement. “We wait for what he decides and announces on Monday, we can say little more right now,” said these sources, who stated that “we cannot advance events or feed hypotheses.” For her part, the Abertzale spokesperson in Congress, Mertxe Aizpurua, stated that her party knows “well what it is like.” lawfare and what objectives those who promote and protect it seek.” “We will always be found facing those who seek to prevent the popular mandate. Always,” she assured.