The regional secretary of the PSOE and spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Carlos Martínez, has announced that he will take part in the general strike called for tomorrow, Wednesday, 11 November, by trade union organizations and the housing movement. At the same time, he has considered “absolutely indecent” that the Partido Popular “criminalizes and attacks” the main trade union centers, which he has described as “a fundamental pillar of democracy and of the workers’ struggle.”
“It is absolutely indecent that a party that aspires to be in government attacks in the way that Mr. Tellado and Mr. Feijóo are attacking a fundamental pillar of the struggle for workers’ rights,” Martínez has ruled, who has regretted that certain political formations take themselves to be referred to in the objectives of a strike that, he has insisted, is called to safeguard citizens’ rights. “There’s a reason for that,” he joked.
Along these lines, he has called for a deep correction of that way of doing politics based, in his view, on the criminalization and attacks that he attributes to the PP, which he sees as increasingly aligned with the far right. For this reason, he has urged the “popular” to “return to that centrist party that aspires to govern” Spain and “from recognition of the institutions, starting also with the unions and also with the business class,” he has requested.
“Something is going wrong if those who are defending the right to housing and the right to improve workers’ wages are being demonized and criminalized,” the Socialist leader has warned, who has reiterated that tomorrow he will back the general stoppage. “I will exercise as the worker that I am and I feel the right to strike and to attend the demonstrations, and those who feel addressed, as I feel myself to be as a public officer, are also invited to do so,” he added.