The PSOE crisis fogs the commemoration of the 40 years of the entrance of Spain into the EU | Spain

The alleged involvement in the collection of bites of the PSOE Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, has crossed all the political and institutional activity this Thursday, including commemoration this afternoon in the Royal Palace of the Royal Palace of the 40th Anniversary of the Signature of the Adhesion Treaty of Spain and Portugal to the European communities ―What was effective on January 1, 1986, « with the presence of King Felipe VI and Pedro Sánchez. »

With serious countenance after the revelations of the report of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard – in which it is linked to its Until Thursday to number three of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, With the plot of alleged corruption of Koldo case-, Sánchez has inaugurated the act covered by the majority of ministers who have seen some nervous attitude, long faces and some forced smile. But also with relevant absences, such as that of all government presidents, the representatives and barons of the Popular Party, Vox – who has summoned a mobilization tonight at the headquarters of the PSOE – and the ministers of adding. This morning was scheduled on the agenda of Yolanda Díaz, Ernest Urtasun and Mónica García, but finally they have not attended either. The PP decided this morning to absent in block by avoiding coinciding with Pedro Sánchez, as the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, argued after having raised the summary secret of the UCO report.

The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who were invited, have not attended the act held in the column room, the same scenario where the then King, Juan Carlos I ago, presided over the signing of the treaty. « In this Chamber, the country signed its adhesion to the European Union and its peace with its own history, » said Sanchez in a fully institutional discourse and away from political news that fully affects his party and the direction of the government.

« We do not allow the divisions and conflicts that weaken precisely what was born to overcome them and that has been the greatest guarantee of peace, freedom and prosperity in our history, » Felipe VI said in relation to the EU. In his closing speech, the king has called for the younger generations to participate in the community project. « They do not have it easy in a world dominated by great tensions and rivalries (…), in a scenario where the rules weaken (…), in a Europe marked by the return of war and instability, contrary to its own reason for being, » he said in a message turned into the reaffirmation of a commitment from Spain to the community project.

In his subsequent speech at the Royal Palace and before a minor audience in number of what was expected, but in the presence of the Head of the State, Sanchez has praised Spain’s belonging to the EU saying that thanks to this the “course” of Spain was changed. A country in full consolidation of the transition that was woven a future with civil rights and with a clear direction to the welfare state.

« In these 40 years, a young democracy has gone from a full democracy, » said the executive leader, who has taken the opportunity to remember the « economic bonanza », social and democratic that Europe has contributed to Spain. And vice versa. « The GDP per capita has doubled, the unemployment rate has been diminished, life expectancy has been increased in 11 years and a first welfare state has been built, » the president presumed on a day marked by judicial investigations, leaks, alleged corruption and electoral mistress within his own party.

To the ceremony, which was attended by the current president of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, (the Portuguese country entered at the same time as Spain in the community club) have also attended representatives of the main powers of the State, such as the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, or the president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido. « Spain has played an active role in European construction. Not only contributing its dynamism and vitality, but even putting themselves at the forefront and becoming a reference of the advances in rights and freedoms, and of the struggle for equality, » the Portuguese recognized as president of the European Council and Great Allied of Sánchez in Brussels.