The former president of the government Felipe Gonzalez He questioned Tuesday that Pedro Sánchez’s executive is “the most progressive in history” because, according to him, it constitutes “an offense to reason” and is “the most unequal in the redistribution” of income with “a macroeconomic success”.
“It’s one thing to govern and another to be in government. At least it aims to ensure that others do not govern,” said the former socialist leader in an interview with “La nuit en 24 Heures” (TVE) in which he criticized the leadership of the PSOE for him reproach “the politics” of which Pedro Sánchez ran in the general elections At the same time, he once again criticized. amnesty law agreed with Junts for the inauguration of the current head of the Executive. “My opinion is based on the party’s resolutions and not on what happens next,” he said.
González, who confirmed that he had not received the invitation for the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE in Seville, he stressed that the primary system “did not work” in Spain. “The party of activists? Maybe it is, but I can’t identify it,” he asked.
Asked about the investigation into Begoña Gómez, a day after the Madrid court refused to close her case, the former president of the government regretted that politics was being judicialized, which could cause a drift ” delicate” with the “politicization of justice”. , while calling for respect for the rule of law. “If judges make mistakes, there are remedies, but they cannot interfere in the functioning of the judiciary,” explained González, who criticized the polarization of society that comes “from above” – in reference to politics -.
This, according to González, “breaks certain fundamental elements” of a democracyas “respectful coexistence with the functioning of state powers, even if “you don’t like what they are doing in one court case or another.” Thus, he also questioned the commissions of inquiry “which they know lead nowhere” and which are rather “exhibition”: “It is a real absurdity which distorts serious institutional functioning”.
reasonable doubt
Regarding the legal reform that could benefit more than 40 ETA prisoners, approved unanimously in Congress, González highlighted that the European directive was challenged by Rajoy’s government to exclude terrorism, which was approved by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). as he remembers it.
“ETA terrorism has disappeared, but have terrorist crimes disappeared? The execution of sentences? “It raises a reasonable doubt,” said the former president, who acknowledged that the debate is still open and it is interpretable, even if he regretted that the deputies of Congress “must have more important questions than anyone realized” about the consequences of the vote.
“Centrifugation of power”
On the other hand, González accused the executive of Pedro Sánchez of “modifying the regional financing system” with a Catalan quota “by seven votes”. “The Spanish government cannot collect, if the agreement with the ERC is concluded, more than 20% of GDP if it does not want to collect more than 20% of GDP,” he indicated. “There is a lot of confusion. “I am radically in favor of decentralization and I am radically against the centrifugation of power because that does not allow us to have a country with a project,” he concluded.
When asked if he had evidence of commissions received by emeritus after Franco’s death, the former president stressed that “he had no information on this subject.” “The things I could control, I controlled without a problem. Some he did not control,” he explained, before reproaching that “certain notes” from the former director general of the Higher Defense Information Center (CESID), Emilio Alonso Manglano, “ are misused.
Finally, when asked about the declassification of the 23F papers, González assured that he did not think there would be many surprises and encouraged reading the trial summary. “Now they must declassify the attacks in Catalonia… Let them do what they want. Also for conversations with Putin. It is through everything they declassify that we will find out who belongs to Putin,” he said.
