Contrast the Government's management with what the PP does where it governs. It is Pedro Sánchez's pre-election manual, which slams those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo for “incompetence and negligence” in the management of crises such as breast cancer screenings in Andalusia, the fires in Castilla y León, or DANA. In the week that marks one year since the tragedy that will be commemorated with a state funeral, the president has accused Carlos Mazón for his “negligent” management. But he has pointed out two other people responsible: Feijóo and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, for allowing him to remain in power. “It is indecent for Valencians and for the relatives of the DANA victims,” Sánchez attacked.
The leader of the PSOE has vindicated the work of his Government in the face of the “laziness and mismanagement” of the PP. He has also taken the opportunity to delve into Feijóo's weakness by ensuring that “there is no one at the wheel of the PP.” In his duel in Congress on Wednesday, Sánchez asked the opposition leader to put “order” in his party and this Sunday he reiterated the message by reproaching the “insubmission” of Isabel Díaz Ayuso “to comply with the laws”, for her rejection of the housing law or to create the registry of conscientious objectors to abortion; “the siftings of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla”, or “Mañueco and his fires”, in addition to Mazón with the DANA. “And Feijóo? Does anyone know where Feijóo is?” he asked at a rally in León.
“Since I have been President of the Government, the only real change that the PP has proposed is to change its leader. There are already three. It remains to be seen who will be the next,” he suggested about a possible internal war in that party, where they see an erratic Feijóo.
“In the face of the paralysis of others, we must continue governing and continue moving forward,” Sánchez told his people in an act in which he ignored the latest threat from Junts, which decides this Monday whether to definitively break with the Government. In Moncloa they try to downplay this new ultimatum from Carles Puigdemont and limit it to the warnings he has issued throughout the legislature. Sánchez's team maintains that, as long as Junts does not support a motion of censure, which they see as unlikely because it would have to go ahead with PP and Vox, the legislature can move forward.
Meanwhile, the PSOE is preparing for the electoral cycle that, in principle, will begin in Castilla y León in the coming months, unless the president of Extremadura, María Guardiola, calls in that region as she has promised if she fails in the attempt to carry out the Budgets. “No one knows if it's going to be a super Sunday, now it seems that they don't want to do a super Sunday, that now they want to do a mini Sunday. In short, whatever they want, whenever they want. We are prepared because we have the project, we have the teams and we have who is going to be the next president of the Junta de Castilla y León, which is Carlos Martínez,” concluded Sánchez, who has visited for the fifth time in two and a half months.
Sánchez has claimed the PSOE as “the party of the state, of well-being, of social cohesion, of social justice and of territorial cohesion” in the face of the management of the PP which, he has denounced, with the support of the extreme right “from within or from without” is causing a “gradual, if not very intense, deterioration in the quality of the provision of public services that are in the hands of the autonomous communities”, although he recalled that 300,000 million euros more have been transferred than in the time of Mariano Rajoy.
In the case of the Executive of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, Sánchez has said that money from the State has increased by an annual average of 38%. Has this translated into an improvement in public services, in health, in education, in dependency, in housing policies, in the reindustrialization of Castilla y León? “, he asked an audience who responded with a resounding ”no“.
“What has happened is that in Castilla y León the firefighters were cut and the mountains were set on fire. In Andalusia, public health was cut and women were left absolutely unprotected against the disease of breast cancer. In Valencia, civil protection was cut and we had the most tragic DANA in recent years in our country,” Sánchez recalled: “It doesn't matter if his name is Mañueco, Moreno, Bonilla, Ayuso… follow the same pattern: cuts, bad management and lies.”
Regarding Mañueco's management, he has recalled the management since he agreed with Vox three years ago. “They tried to weaken and question the right of women to voluntarily terminate their pregnancy,” she said about the protocol imposed by the extreme right so that women had to listen to the 'fetal heartbeat' before having an abortion. He has also referred to the attempt to “dismantle the Democratic Memory law” and the “risk in which they put a sector as important as livestock by denying bovine tuberculosis.”
What has been very present at the rally have been the fires of this summer, to which all the participants have referred. The socialist candidate, Carlos Martínez, has said that Mañueco makes him nervous “because of the indolence and apathy” with which he approached that catastrophe that ended with 100,000 hectares burned in León alone. “100,000 hectares have burned while Mañueco and (counselor) Quiñones said that it was a waste to maintain the services (of the firefighters) all year round. When the fires ended, Mañueco fired 30% of the firefighters,” denounced the provincial secretary, Javier Cendón.
This Sunday's rally, attended by, among others, Demetrio Madrid, the socialist president who resigned over a false accusation of corruption giving way to 38 uninterrupted years of right-wing power, and also the former general secretary Luis Tudanca, who left the leadership of the federation at the beginning of the year in the middle of a battle with Ferraz, has been the starting signal for the pre-campaign of elections in which the socialists dream of being the first force, although they assume that governing will be impossible due to the sum of the PP and Vox community.