Sánchez clings to the example of Brazil and the USA: "If there they have been able to defeat the far-right, here it will also be possible"

Valencia"If it was possible in Brazil and the United States, it will be possible here too." Spanish President Pedro Sánchez has clung to the recent progressive victories in Brazil and the United States and has predicted that if social democracy has defeated the far-right in those countries, then in "Spain it will also be possible." To achieve this, he called for mobilization and invoked the experience accumulated over the last few years by leading the international denunciations of the Israeli genocide in Palestine or by becoming the lightning rod for attacks from Donald Trump or Javier Milei. "If for many years we have been a beacon for many, how could we not be now," the socialist leader emphasized.

Today's was Sánchez's first rally following the dramatic train accident in Urda and the new revelations of the Koldo case. As a result of the former, the event began with a minute of silence. The tragic event did not monopolize the rally, which shared the spotlight with the call for mobilization and the defense of the welfare state and public policies. Sánchez praised the management carried out by his executive during the railway crisis and assured that he had to reverse "15 years of cuts by the Popular Party" in infrastructure. He also acknowledged the resignation of the former Minister of Transport Óscar Puente, as Minister Diana Morant had already done before, in a gesture to which the rally attendees responded by shouting "Óscar, Óscar".

If Sánchez needed affection to resume the campaign, he received it in abundance from his supporters in the city of Valencia, who overwhelmed the capacity of the pavilion in the Cabanyal neighborhood to the point that more than half an hour before the start of the rally, the PSOE had to close the doors of the venue which was already full, leaving as many people on the street as those who were able to enter the pavilion. According to socialist sources, 5,000 people attended the socialists' gathering, both inside and outside. In fact, screens were improvised outside so that the people who were left out could follow the rally.

The Spanish prime minister was preceded by the intervention of the now former government delegate, head of the socialist list for the Valencia constituency and candidate for mayor of the Valencia City Council, Pilar Bernabé, and the minister and candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat, Diana Morant. The most forceful was Bernabé, who did not spare any mentions of the former head of the Council Carlos Mazón and his management of the DANA, to which the socialist militants responded by shouting "Mazón to prison". Sánchez was received by his loyalists with the now customary shouts of "Pedro, Pedro", while the verses of "how could I not love you" from the song Llavors by the Valencian group La Fúmiga echoed throughout the venue. One more example of the "socialist love" campaign.