The former head of the government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, defended the amnesty law yesterday in Valencia, in the context of consultations with PSOE militants in support of negotiations on the appointment of Pedro Sánchez. Zapatero, who wanted the “coalition government that brought Spain to the best moment in its history” to continue, said, “I voted yes, like the public opinion.”
The socialist leader argued that the amnesty law “will be good for everyone” because it brings “common coexistence” and compared it to the gay marriage law, which the PP took to the Constitutional Court “as always when doing social welfare policies”.
Valencian socialists organized the main support action for the “yes” vote in the militant consultation. The seats at the UGT headquarters in Valencia were filled with main PSPV officials who had parliamentary responsibilities on city councils or within the party itself.
Zapatero was the leading actor, but he was not the only person involved. Before him, there was Ximo Puig, who assured that the reunion “must be done no matter what” because the alternative is “perpetual confrontation”. Meanwhile, acting minister Diana Morant called on Valencia and Alicante state leaders Carlos Fernández Bielsa and Alejandro Soler to “retake responsibility for citizens’ problems.” The man from Elche actually emphasized that “PSOE always looks for a way of encounter with the common interest and compromise in mind.”
Painted
While the event was being held in Valencia and almost in parallel, the local headquarters of PSPV in Alicante, located on Pintor Gissbert Street, discovered a series of graffiti appearances above the door in which the word could be repeated. Traitors.” All this in the context of political conflict, which has escalated with the agreement reached this week between the PSOE and the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) for the appointment of Pedro Sánchez, which included, among other things, amnesty for the independence leaders involved in the process.
The group’s sources interpret these graffiti as an act of pressure on the militants, in a context where they have to vote if they support negotiations to invest in Sánchez, and say they will quickly clear them. Likewise, they explain that they are working on the possibility of resorting to illegal actions to prevent such situations from happening again.