The president of the Government and general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, has urged to unify the progressive vote around his party to safeguard social rights against the current dispersion of leftist forces: "Everything to red," he claimed.
During a pre-campaign rally held in Valladolid, accompanied by ministers Óscar Puente and Ana Redondo —head of the list for Congress for this constituency—, he called for broad participation in the general elections on November 29, in which, he emphasized, there will be a choice between two models of country, "one that protects and another that leaves people exposed."
"Everything to red to have the best result, the largest parliamentary majority and continue governing for another four years," Sánchez defended before a full audience at the millennium dome, a usual venue for PSOE events in Valladolid. "Because this is what these elections are about, there will be many acronyms, but there are only two models of society," he insisted.
In contrast, he warned that PP and Vox intend to "touch pensions, sick leave" and also "the right of women to abort" as well as the "minimum interprofessional wage."
Sánchez expressed his satisfaction with "the spirit and the mood" that, he said, the socialists are demonstrating in this pre-campaign, in which he claims they are "mobilizing" the citizenry, while the right has "fear" and increasingly "insults and lies more." "Even the right itself believes that the PSOE is going to win and that we are going to continue governing," he pointed out.
From the audience, messages of support were heard directed at his wife Begoña Gómez, who accompanied him at the rally last Saturday in Fuenlabrada and to whom he dedicated gestures and words of affection from the podium. Sánchez thanked those displays of affection by placing his hand on his heart.
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