The PSOE’s regional secretary 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. The Socialist leader has described as “absolutely indecent” that the Partido Popular “criminalizes and attacks” the main unions, which he has described as “a fundamental pillar of democracy and of 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 shown his rejection of certain formations being considered alluded to in relation to the aims of a strike which, as he has emphasized, is called to safeguard the rights of citizens. “There must be a reason for that,” he said ironically.
In this line, he has called for a correction in the way of understanding politics, which, in his view, is based on criminalization and attacks, a strategy he has attributed to the PP, which he sees as increasingly aligned with the far right. At the same time, he has urged the ‘popular’ party to “return to that center party that aspires to govern” Spain and “from recognition of the institutions, also starting with the unions and also with the business class,” he has asked.
“Something is not working if those who are defending the right to housing and the right to improve workers’ wages are being demonized and criminalized,” the Socialist official warned, who has reiterated that tomorrow he will support the general stoppage. “I will act 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 as a public official, are also invited to do so,” he added.