The PSOE rallies behind Zapatero

MadridJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's expected declaration as a defendant before the National Court has not moved the PSOE's position one millimeter. The former Spanish Prime Minister has emerged while retaining freedom of movement

Junts has also issued a warning to the Spanish Prime Minister after his veto of their amendment to a PP motion after the veto of their amendment to a PP motionafter the veto of his amendment to a PP motionThe circle around the Spanish Prime Minister also insists on the continuity of the legislature. In fact, they optimistically seized on the PNB's warning: they interpret it to mean that the Basque nationalists are open to negotiating the budget. Meanwhile, the PP has urged the plurinational majority to "stop swallowing shit" from the PSOE and will try to throw a bucket of cold water on the Spanish government by bringing to the Senate the text that the Congress bureau vetoed this Tuesday. Next Wednesday, June 24, coinciding with Sánchez's appearance in the lower house to explain the alleged corruption, the Senate will vote on Junts' amendment that urged the Spanish Prime Minister to call elections immediately. The PP has recovered the literal text of Junts with the aim of getting Carles Puigdemont's party and also the PNB to vote with them against Sánchez to achieve a symbolic victory.

The spokesperson for ERC in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has lashed out at Junts for this pincer movement with the PP and has defended maintaining support for Sánchez out of "historical responsibility" in the face of the possible arrival of what he has dubbed the "triumvirate of suffering," in reference to a hypothetical alliance between PP, Vox, and Junts. At the same time, he has urged the Spanish government to "give substance to the legislature."

Zapatero's legacy

In parallel, the PSOE has opted to claim Zapatero's "legacy" as a president who "expanded rights." "He remains fully valid," they maintain. Socialist spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, praised him as a "moral reference," while the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, expressed "suspicions" that the United States is behind the investigation against the socialist former president for Sánchez's "no to the war" in the face of Donald Trump's policy. Also from Sumar, they have argued that he is still a "very relevant person for progressives," although precisely for this reason they have demanded that he give more explanations and be more transparent while he is being investigated.