Pedro Sánchez will not participate this Friday in the multiple demonstrations that, on the occasion of May Day, are held throughout Spain and in which a good part of the members of the Government and the PSOE will be deployed. But the head of the Executive has wanted to participate in this Labor Day with a video in which he claims that in Spain “there is more employment and rights than ever,” despite those who have criticized that for years “they announce the apocalypse,” referring to the Popular Party and the far-right Vox.
The head of the Executive has looked back to highlight the labor advances of the present. “There was a time when working endless shifts was normal, and resting was a privilege,” he has assured. And he has warned that now “nothing we have was a gift.” “Every labor right was first a collective conquest to live better,” he has assured.
And he has claimed his management for eight years as president of the Government. “Today we know that many things they told us were impossible, were not,” he has emphasized. He has thus underlined that Spain is the fastest growing country in the European Union and already has more than 22 million people working, with a minimum wage that doubles the one that existed when he arrived at Moncloa in 2018.
“We have advanced a lot,” he has emphasized, due to the increase in the interprofessional minimum wage, the reduction of temporality, the labor reform, the protection of employment, or with the shared responsibility between men and women. “We also advance with the regularization of migrants,” he has added, with a measure that he has assured is “just, to guarantee rights and also obligations, and to end labor exploitation.”
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Sánchez has warned that “while some announce the apocalypse, they have been doing so for years every time rights are expanded, the reality is stubborn, it is very clear: there is more employment and more rights than ever,” he concluded.
A good part of the Government is deployed this Friday for the demonstrations called throughout Spain on the occasion of Labor Day. Thus, the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and the Minister of Inclusion and Government spokesperson, attend the demonstration held in Málaga; the Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, and the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, are at the one taking place in Valencia; the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, in that of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, in that of Puertollano, in Ciudad Real; the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, in that of Barcelona.
In addition, the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, participates in the demonstration held in Valladolid; while the Minister for Digital Transformation, Óscar López, and the Minister of Youth, Sira Rego, attend the one taking place in Madrid.
