If Vox’s far right decided to pressure the Popular Party by presenting initiatives in all town halls in favor of the principle of “national priority,” putting Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party in trouble in all territories after the investiture agreements sealed in Extremadura, Aragón, and soon in Castilla y León, now it is the PSOE who goes on the counterattack, and this Sunday it announced that it will register initiatives, in the form of motions or bills, in town halls, regional parliaments, the General Courts, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (Femp), and the European Parliament, “to defend the principle of citizen equality that the PP and Vox intend to break with the concept of national priority.”
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Pedro Sánchez himself already took advantage of the Andalusian electoral campaign to defend the new extraordinary regularization of up to half a million immigrants in Spain by contrasting Vox’s “national priority” with the socialists’ “other national priorities,” referring to economic growth, job creation, public services, or social and territorial cohesion. And now the PSOE leadership takes a step further by deploying initiatives throughout Spain in favor of “citizen equality.” A classic social democracy concept, which in their view needs to be defended again in the new political scenario opened by the regional agreements between the PP and Vox.
“The national priority of the PP and Vox is unfair and illegal and is based on hatred and discrimination,” the PSOE argued to justify its initiative. “We want to warn that the pact that Feijóo’s people have signed in Extremadura and Aragón with the far right is inhuman and illegal,” the socialists warned in a statement. “Inhuman because it intends to fracture society, dividing it between first- and second-class citizens. Because it establishes as a requirement to access public services the place of origin and not the need or right to them. Because it is based on hatred and exclusion and can harm coexistence,” the PSOE emphasized.
The so-called “national priority” promoted by the far right, according to the socialists, “is also illegal because it violates the principle of equality among all citizens established in Article 14 of our Constitution.” “Because it contradicts the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and because, whenever a similar measure has been attempted to be imposed, the Justice has stopped it,” they pointed out.
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The socialists have thus made their position very clear: “Against a Spain they want to divide between first- and second-class citizens, we want a Spain that moves forward united.” “Our national priorities are the real priorities of the citizens: peace over war, work over unemployment, universal public health, education as a lever of equality, dependency, the revaluation of pensions, or decent housing,” the PSOE stated in its statement, outlining the initiatives they will register in all institutions.
“The national priority of the PP and Vox also implies the dismantling of public services and the deinstitutionalization in which radical parties move so well,” the PSOE said. “This discrimination calls on and affects us all,” they warned. “After the exclusion of the migrant population will come the exclusion of other population groups, women, LGTBI people, or those who have the least, speakers of co-official languages or, simply, anyone who does not think like the right,” they stressed in their statement.
Therefore, the PSOE has assured that “it mobilizes from the institutions to stop this unfair and illegal measure.” “We do not want to return to the social and territorial fracture of the Rajoy Government, our model is social justice and dignity,” they concluded.
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