The former president of the Government Felipe González has censured this Wednesday the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, for having stated in his speech calling for the elections on the next November 29 that Congress "betrayed" the majority.
"I find it hard to bear that the president of the Government of my country --not of my party, president of the Government of my country-- says that the body of national sovereignty betrayed the majority on Friday," he denounced during a tribute event to the former presidents of Aragón and Extremadura Javier Lambán and Guillermo Fernández Vara.
Next, González warned of the danger to democracy that, in his opinion, implies questioning the representative legitimacy of the Cortes Generales when a vote is lost. "If Parliament is betraying national sovereignty, it doesn't matter if there are elections, because the next Parliament could also be said not to represent national sovereignty," he emphasized.
In this line, he also criticized the messages from some allied forces of the Executive that downplay the importance of going to the polls.
"I heard some politicians say, not exactly from the Government, but from the alliance with the Government, that elections are not needed, but solutions." In this sense, he compared these statements to those of the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez. "It's exactly the same thing they say in Venezuela. That leaves me extremely worried," he remarked.
Call for agreements to tackle the housing crisis
On the other hand, González has called on the parties to put aside confrontation and focus on structural challenges, placing the housing crisis as an unpostponable priority.
Thus, he expressed that this issue "demands a pact among all administrations," although he lamented that, due to the "political climate, this possibility does not exist, neither for housing nor for Ceuta nor for education."
Looking ahead to the elections on November 29, he has asked the political forces for concrete proposals and verifiable commitments. "Can you offer me an electoral campaign on the PISA report, on the crisis in housing, or on the situation in Ceuta?" he indicated.
In the face of the reopening of constitutional debates, the former president has defended the validity of the 78 pact and the trajectory of his party. "We are the last party that remains that agreed and voted for the Constitution as initials, the last with continuity, which the others have not had," he has pointed out before reaffirming that he "would vote for the same" Constitution.