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Applause for the former senior socialist officials convicted by the ERE and acquitted by the Constitutional Court

The president of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE and general secretary of the Andalusian socialists, Juan Espadas, began his speech by giving “special thanks” to some of the former senior officials of the Andalusian Junta who were convicted in the sentencing of the political piece of the ERE and that this summer were partially acquitted by the Constitutional Court, the former Andalusian presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán, the former Ministers of the Treasury, Magdalena Álvarez and Carmen Martínez Aguayo, and the former director of the Idea agency, Miguel Ángel Serrano, present in the first row of the plenary session, who stood up to applaud them. “I want to recognize them for justice,” Espadas said.

After the powerful and emotional speech by Diana Morant, Espadas’ long intervention has taken a tour of the previous socialist congresses to highlight how the policies agreed upon in them have been those that have “transformed the lives and reality” of the Spanish people. The Andalusian leader has invited the attendees to “take a trip to the center of the heart of the PSOE” and has put Pedro Sánchez as the greatest exponent of his policies of social democracy in Europe and in the world: “We are going to do it again “We owe it to millions of Spaniards for whom we are the only hope and millions of people in Europe and on the other side of the Atlantic look at us with hope, threatened by the extreme right.”

In this sense, Espadas has also highlighted that the only way to end the expansion of the extreme right is by governing. “Since July of last year, Spain managed to stop the reactionary wave. You have found the way, Pedro. The ultras are stopped governing and seeking agreements in a social and diverse way,” he noted in reference to the agreements with his investiture partners.

Espadas has also made reference to the judicial siege suffered by the party and Sánchez himself: “That is why they attack you with personal attacks, or by attacking the family, you and I know well what we are talking about,” he told him, in reference to his own wife, who was called to testify in the Andalusian Parliament for her alleged involvement in a corruption scandal in an employment foundation.

The general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE had a few words, at the end of his speech, for his rival and president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, focusing on the health emergency contracts that are being investigated in the courts: “We will return to win. To the hard right and the Swabian right, which cynically disguises itself as dialogue-oriented and moderate, that of Moreno Bonilla, who is destroying the public health system of Andalusia, diverting resources to private health care and turning patients into clients.”