Sanchez and Spain’s secret recipe: “We have disavowed the neoliberal ideology”

The prime minister underlines for example the “bet on renewable energy: it allowed us to lower the price of electricity to an average level of 20 percent lower than that of European countries. Then, thanks to contribution of immigration regularly, in the last seven years we have welcomed 2 million migrants, of which over 95 percent on a regular basis. At the same time, we have reduced the unemployment rate by 40%. Logically, growth must not come at the expense of workers’ rights. With the labor reform, we have ensured that 4 million precarious contracts become permanent. Before the reform, precariousness exceeded 30 percent. I believe that the rejection of neoliberal politics is the success of the Spanish model, which is nothing other than the social democratic model. Spain is demonstrating that growth and redistribution, growth and decarbonization are possible combinations.”

“During my tenure, and particularly this year, 60% of growth is seen in the form of salary of Spanish families and 40 percent in the form of investment income. There are those who argue that we are growing and therefore we are redistributing. I say the opposite: we are redistributing and, consequently, we are growing, because it is the purchasing power of citizens that allows us to have these rates of economic growth.”

As for the battaglia launched by the Spanish Prime Minister against big tech “unfortunately – he admits – social media today is a failed state, in which the law of the strongest prevails, an anonymity exists which tramples on the rights not only of adults, but also of our young people. Here, we demand that anonymity ends and that the technoligarchs answer for their responsibilities. These technology magnates, in addition to not holding themselves responsible for what happens on their platforms, do not even pay taxes”.

“We must bring back the rule of law within social media. Spain can obviously do its part, but it must be Europe as a whole that demands compliance with the rules from the technology giants” invokes the prime minister.

On the failure to exclude Israel from the Winter Olympic Games in Italy “I would say that it is inconsistent. We did it with Russia, and immediately, why isn’t it done with Israel? I disagree with the position of the International Olympic Committee”.

Regarding the cooperation agreement between the EU and Israel, the Spanish prime minister did not hold back criticism for the ‘genocide’ in Gazathen believes “that it should have been canceled simply on the basis of the articles of the agreement itself. Because one of the points requires all parties to respect human rights and Israel is not doing so. Netanyahu is wrong to believe that the fight against terrorism can only have a security dimension. It is not enough, we must propose political solutions to those societies in which the terrorist ideology has developed, so that those same societies marginalize terrorist organizations. If a political horizon of coexistence and peace is not offered to Palestine, unfortunately that seed of terrorism will continue to spread.”

“The great failure of the West’s response on Gaza must give us pause, it has been inconsistent. We cannot ask other countries to support us in Ukraine, as we are doing, and at the same time allow a double standard to be applied with Israel and Palestine. It is not acceptable. We must be coherent and constant because we defend the same principle, which is international law”, he concludes.