Sánchez dismisses the news about a possible government crisis as “intoxication” and says that he is not in his… – ABC.es

Pedro Sánchez has denied this Tuesday -during an official appearance during his visit to La Palma and to questions from informants- that it is in his plans to carry out a government crisis, as published by various media in recent days. The head of the Executive has not hesitated to label this information as “intoxication”, and with emphasis has made a call to the press to “inform and not intoxicate”. Sánchez has shown his disbelief by reading things, he has said, “that I haven’t even thought about.” On June 27, during an appearance in Moncloa where he announced the new taxes on banks and energy companies and gave an account of the second package of measures against the inflationary spiral that the Council of Ministers had just approved, the President of the Government denied that changes were going to take place both in the Cabinet and, he said then, in the Federal Executive of the PSOE or in the Socialist Group in the Congress of Deputies, to whose members he showed his full support. Last July, and after the resignation of the former number two of the PSOE, Adriana Lastra, Sánchez dismissed the spokesmen both in Ferraz and in Parliament, Felipe Sicilia and Héctor Gómez. Now, he has once again shown his full confidence in all of his ministers. Veiled attack on the PP His words came at an appearance where he was flanked by the president of the Canary Islands, the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres, and by the Cabildo of La Palma, Mariano Hernández, from the PP, the second he has done during his summer vacations, which he spends at the official residence of La Mareta, in Lanzarote. In front of both, he highlighted the reconstruction of the island of La Palma after the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, whose first anniversary will be celebrated in September. Something that he considers – he said during his tenth visit to the place, where the conference of regional presidents was held last March – an example of “co-governance” and collaboration between the different administrations, of different political colors. However, this praise of the joint work with the PP has been accompanied by a harsh veiled reproach to the first opposition party, which in his opinion did not have the same attitude neither in the pandemic, nor now before, he has remarked, the “terrible economic and social effects» arising from Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. All this in the context of the confrontation between the Government and those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo over the energy saving decree that imposes a new regulation of temperatures in companies and shops, which still has to be validated by Congress and that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has already announced that she will appeal to the Constitutional Court (TC). Sánchez, without mentioning the popular leaders, has called for “common sense, responsibility and solidarity” given that, he has argued, “this war is a challenge for all of European society.”