The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the socialist Luis Planas, intervened this Friday in a pre-campaign event of the PSOE held in Montilla (Córdoba). Ahead of the general elections on next 29 November, he asked citizens to choose between the PSOE’s “progress” or “going back 50 years” to the past with PP and Vox.
Before the media, and accompanied by the PSOE candidates for Congress for Córdoba, Alberto Mayoral and Ana López, as well as by the mayor of the town, Rafael Llamas, the minister explained that “the question of 29 November is very simple, it is: progress or return? Progress if we want to continue carrying out the task” developed “over the last eight years, of advancing Spain,” promoted by the Government of the Nation under the Presidency of Pedro Sánchez.
Planas stressed that the choice involves keeping that advance “in all senses,” both “economic and social, and also from the point of view of the operation of public services, or whether we effectively want to go back, but not go back to yesterday,” but rather to a much more distant stage, “that is, going back 50 years, which is, in definitive terms, what the Partido Popular and Vox represent together,” since, in his words, “they are the image of Spain from 50 years ago, and we respect that Spain, but we don’t want it to return.”
As the minister highlighted, the PSOE defends “the Spain of economic progress, of social progress, of progress in freedoms and of respect among citizens, which has meant the Constitution, for which we fight and of which we, the PSOE, were fundamental parents.”
Against this, he warned that “PP and Vox, which are practically united, not only in action, but in the program, mean the opposite, mean going backwards,” and he said he was “convinced” that “the vast majority of citizens are going to continue” by giving “their trust” to the PSOE, “to continue along that path of progress.”
In addition, Planas referred to international affairs and recalled that, “in these last days, we have seen how Brazil bet on progress and on the future, and we have seen how in the United States the Democratic Party has obtained an overwhelming victory,” showing himself “convinced” that in “the next major elections, which are the elections of Spain,” the 29N, the socialists will continue to “obtain that victory and that trust” from citizens and that “they are fundamental for our progress,” as a country.