The Prime Minister 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 has expressed his support for the government to face a vote of confidence, a motion of no confidence, or call elections, encouraging him to run in them.
«There you have the far-right organization 'Christian Lawyers'», he told him.
At a rally in Cáceres, in the midst of the electoral campaign for the December 21st regional elections, Sánchez referred in this way to Argüello's statements in an interview in 'La Vanguardia', in which he states that he believes the legislature has run its course and is in favor of raising a vote of confidence, a motion of no confidence, or «giving the word to the citizens».
The prelate from Valladolid made the same proposal last summer in an interview published in ABC, where he advocated giving citizens a voice at the polls due to the «institutional deadlock» situation through which Spain was and is going through.
Sánchez 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».
In fact, he stated that when the right governs, the representatives of the bishops do not call for early elections and are in favor of exhausting the legislature.
«I'm going to tell Mr. Argüello, the president of the Episcopal Conference, this: the time when bishops interfered in politics ended when democracy began in this country», the Prime Minister concluded.
