“The Government will keep fighting,” guaranteed the minister and leader of the Madrid socialists, Óscar López, this Tuesday from Moncloa. The Executive has thus shown itself determined to withstand all the pressure, both external and internal, triggered by the judicial investigation opened against former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. In this way, it is willing to resist and not throw in the towel to keep the legislature afloat, despite the intensified political offensive by the PP and the far-right Vox, despite warnings from parliamentary allies such as the PNV or CC and also despite the demands of Felipe González or the president of Castilla-La Mancha, the socialist Emiliano García-Page, for Pedro Sánchez to call general elections this same year, and to give up his intention to complete the legislature in July 2027, as he intends.
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The head of the Executive is not willing to give in, while at Moncloa they insist on maintaining their “absolute confidence in the innocence of President Zapatero.” “There is no documentary evidence proving a criminal act,” they reiterate in Sánchez’s team, based on what is known so far from the judicial investigation file against the former head of government.
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday, once again, an organic law project as significant as the one that aims to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI), which would require an absolute majority in Congress to see the light. And its promoter, Minister Óscar López, has assured that the extreme difficulty of forming parliamentary majorities, especially in the midst of a political crisis due to the Zapatero case, will not cause the Government to simply fold its arms.
“This Government is used to and trained, and does quite well, to govern in minority. In eight years, the balance is that today Spain is the fastest growing country. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Very much,” Óscar López emphasized. “The path is not to give up, the path is to fight for the laws to pass,” he defended. And, moreover, he appealed to the groups of the investiture majority to unblock many of the laws that remain blocked in Congress. “There is a historic opportunity,” he warned them.
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In the same vein, the Government spokesperson, Elma Saiz, has assured that she respects, although does not share, the PNV’s demand to end the legislature this same year, just as Felipe González or Emiliano García-Page have demanded, just as some socialist mayors who do not want to be punished in the next municipal and regional elections and who believe that Pedro Sánchez should face the polls before them. “This Government makes stability the fundamental tool to achieve, in eight years, the number of milestones that are advancing our country,” she argued.
No early elections, therefore. Minister Elma Saiz has thus shown the Executive’s determination to govern “until the last day the legislature ends and beyond 2027, to continue improving the lives of citizens, which is the goal for which we are carrying out the Government’s action.”
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