It maintains the official that the change in the direction of the PSOE intends to professionalize the party with the arrival of the Valencian Rebeca Torró to the Ministry of Organization. He also maintains that the chosen one accumulates extensive experience in management, is good negotiating, resolutive, with character and has a tested organic life.
It also maintains the officiality that Pedro Sánchez has not wanted a general purge in his direction after the scandal of Santos Cerdán and that he had the relay did not meet the expectations generated after the tsunami that meant the entry into provisional prison of the ‘ex -number three’ of the PSOE. The magistrate of the Supreme Court, Leopoldo Puente, considers him the alleged leader of a plot of commission collection in exchange for public works.
And it maintains, finally, that the creation of three attachments to the Ministry of Organization –Francisco Salazar, Anabel Mateos and Borja Cabezón – is a way of distributing responsibility for organic decisions not to fall on a single person. In other words: a choral and counterweight team.
Sánchez’s way to overcome the emotional and political tsunami in which he has plunged the corruption scandal of the plot Ábalos/Cerdán/Koldo/Koldo or from far from the pleasure of the leadership, although some pond and others silence. Among those who argue that “with a whip can not cut such hemorrhage” and those who are convinced that it is a palliative change, there are also those who do not see exit to a wingspan crisis like the one that the PSOE crosses and that it can climb in coming weeks, since the judicial investigation has only done.
Page hints that there will be more prisoners
Then there is Emiliano García-Page who, without hairs on the tongue, argues that one day before the Federal Committee of the PSOE “some do not know if they will continue in office or will be seen in jail.” The president of Castilla-La Mancha will attend this Saturday to the quote of the maximum organ between PSOE congresses and it is expected that theirs will be one of the few voices that do not put hot cloths to the situation, nor do you walk with surroundings, or use circumlocies during your speech. This Friday, during an act in Albacete, he already gave some clues: “Some do not know if they will be free to be able to walk down the street or have to be seen in a prison.” After his words, the suspicion that there will be new accused/imprisoned in the plot that investigates the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and instructs Judge Leopoldo Puente in the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court. Something that, in any case, does not contemplate in the PSOE.
Speculations apart, Sánchez faces his most difficult federal committee since he revalidated the General Secretariat of the PSOE in 2017. Not because the appointment does not end up finally in a closing of rows, as expected, but because the PSOE Bulle as it did not do it years ago and because, for the first time, the internal answer also arrives from the ranks of Sanchismo. With nuances, yes, but even those who belong to the closest circle of the president of the Government have reasonable doubts that the trance can be raffled with more aesthetic changes than structural in the direction of the party “and much less with some names of the chosen ones.” The name of Sevillian Francisco Salazar has raised blisters and all kinds of misgivings, some quite founded.
In fact, there are leaders who have not overlooked that their designation as attached to the Ministry of Organization is to return to the exit box, since the Sevillian – today Secretary of Analysis and Electoral Action – was part with Ábalos, Cerdán and the former mayor of Jun, José Antonio Rodríguez Salas, of the structure that left the 39th Federal Congress held in June 2017, after Sánchez reconquered the general secretary of the general secretar PSOE It is taken for granted that Salazar, who knows the organization of the party as few socialists, will act de facto as secretary of organization of the PSOE, which among the cadres of the party rather than skepticism has generated a deep discomfort. In Madrid, no one forgets that he was responsible for the “catastrophic electoral campaign” that, in the autonomous of 2019, gave the possibility that the right would leave the autonomous government and an unknown and candidate by accident, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, arrived at the door of the Sun. Cabezón, together with the Council of Rivas-VaciMadrid, Mónica Carazo, also were part of that team. Gabilondo to leave the first line. The circumstance is also given that Eldiario.es has condated on Friday that several women have denounced inappropriate behaviors of Salazar when he was his boss in Moncloa. One of them speaks even of “sexual harassment and abuse of power.”
Nor has it unnoticed among the skeptics that other socialists from the Circle of Trust of Santos Cerdán such as Enma López or Juan Francisco Serrano remain in the organization chart. The first will hold an attached spokesman for support to the Catalan Montse Mínguez and the second will change the secretariat, but will continue in the structure. Serrano has been in the center of the Diana since the UCO report uncovered the activities of Cerdán and, although the intention was always to take him out of the executive, he will finally remain in it because Sánchez understands that he was another of the socialists deceived by former number 3, something that some of his co -religionists do not share.
After the scandals of alleged corruption that involve the last two secretaries of organization of the PSOE, José Luis Ábalos (2017-2021) and Santos Cerdán (2021-2025), Sánchez designs a new dome with which, according to his close friends, he intends to avoid the accumulation of power in a single person, to distribute attributions and place for the third time in the history of the PSOE to a woman of ‘number three’. Before she was Leyre Pajín (2008-2010) during the mandate of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and Carmen García Bloise (1979-1984), with Felipe González.
If something was clear since the beginning of the corruption and prostitution scandals that have affected the direction of the PSOE with the cases of Cerdán and Ábalos is that the reputational damage for the party had to be raffled with a woman in front of the organization. And although his first intention was to place Montse Mínguez, the statutory doubts and the response that the territories could give to the militant of another party (and the PSC is from the legal point of view) they deterred him from doing so.
Other proposals he heard from his closest, such as that of the historic Ramón Jáuregui, nor took them into account. Torró is today Secretary of State of Industry and was, during the stage of Ximo Puig at the head of the Generalitat, spokesman for the Socialist Parliamentary Group, in addition to Territorial policy. Precisely, in this last position he had a key role in the collection of the Powerco project (Volkswagen Group) to build in Sagunt (Valencia) the battery cell gigafactoría, an investment of 3,000 million euros that is planned to generate 3,000 direct jobs and another 20,000 indirects.
The Almeria Anabel Mateos will be secretary of Territorial Coordination (until now she was from municipalities of the coast) and Salazar, who is also in the president’s sanhedrin in La Moncloa, will maintain the position of Secretary of Analysis and Electoral Action. Borja Cabezón, the third attached to Organization, a trusted man of Salazar, will continue to the front of Transparency and Democratic Action.
The changes will be ratified this Saturday by the Federal Committee, along with other pending to close to fulfill the statutory mandate that only 10% of the management can combine its position with another organic position in the different territories. Sanchez records, in any case, that he enters for the umpteenth time in resistance mode, despite those who even recommend the resignation in the PSOE. Neither early elections, no extraordinary congress, nor a motion of trust, for the moment. The question is how long.
Source: www.eldiario.es
