The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, responded this Sunday to the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) and Archbishop of Valladolid, Luis Argüello, who was in favor of submitting a motion on a question of confidence. … censorship or calling elections, encouraging him to run for office. “There’s the far-right Christian Lawyers organization there,” he told her.
During a rally in Cáceres, in the middle of the electoral campaign for the regional elections on December 21, Sánchez referred to Argüello’s statements in an interview with ‘La Vanguardia’, in which he indicated that he believed that the legislature was over and that he was in favor of a question of confidence, a motion of censure or “giving voice to the citizens”.
The prelate of Valladolid had already made the same proposal last summer in an interview published on ABC, in which he chose to give voice to citizens during the elections in the face of the situation of “institutional blockade” that Spain was going through and is going through.
The PSOE leader described this position as “curious” and then reflected: “There is a fourth option which is to respect the electoral result even if you don’t like it.” Indeed, he affirmed that when the right governs, the representatives of the bishops do not ask for early elections and are in favor of the exhaustion of legislative power.
“I say one thing to Mr. Argüello, president of the Episcopal Conference, I tell him the following: the era when bishops interfered in politics ended with the beginning of democracy in this country,” concluded the president of government.
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