Pedro Sánchez had two options: throw away or fight. And he has chosen the second. Neither general elections nor motion of trust. New delivery of the resistance manual. In just four days the president of the Government has gone from the disappointment to frustration and this to the furious anger. With Santos Cerdán, but also with a right of which he does not admit integrity or decency lessons. Thus goes on to the attack against the PP and prepares to rearm a PSOE still dismayed by the events. With two secretaries of organization who supposedly charged bites in exchange for the award of public works is not for less.
When the first weaving of the first, José Luis Ábalos began to be made, now come out of nauseabundas recordings that relate it to the purchase of women in exchange for sex and the alleged involvement of the second, Santos Cerdán, in a corrupt plot that operated since 2015. And what is worse, today nobody puts the hand in the fire for anyone after having brought it to the Navarre Koldo García to Madrid to make a driver in the game and ended up almost leaving the Ministry of Transportation by Delegation of Ábalos. Everything is distrust.
And even so, Sánchez tries to perimeter the scandal in the organization of the party, to preserve the government and fight Spain from a right -wing government. “Delivering the country’s reins to a coalition of the PP with Vox that are promoting a reactionary agenda and that currently has 30 cases of corruption, as is the case of the PP, or has been fined by irregular financing, as is the case of the ultra -right party, it would be a tremendous irresponsibility,” he said, in an implicit recognition of having lost the social majority.
He is not the only one who believes it, because during the Socialist Directorate meeting – which for the first time since Sánchez is a general secretary he lasted for almost five hours and almost all his members requested the floor – if something attached unanimity was exactly that: that an early electoral call would take the debacle to the debacle at the moment. There was another coincidence: Sánchez must continue in front. No one expressed during the conclave the opposite, although this weekend there were voices of that same direction that did point it. The insistence on requesting their resignation and the dissolution of the Courts remains for the usual critics.
“We are not going to allow the alleged corruption of a few, who will have to be substantiated, in this case, in the courts, the integrity of one of the cleanest public administrations in the democratic history of our country,” replied the general secretary of the PSOE, which on Monday afternoon already began the round of contacts with the partners of the investiture with the second vice president and head of the second Díaz The result of conversations with all of them will depend as far as a Sanchez may or may not arrive, as he explained to his address, he is even willing to explore the support for the general budgets of 2026.
The elections, he recalled, are every four years, “so it has been and so it will continue.” “And we are not going to break the stability of a great country such as Spain, which lives one of its best moments of the last decades to put them in the hands of the worst opposition that the democratic history of our country has had in the hands of Feijóo and Abascal,” he said, after announcing that he will appear in Congress at his own request “on the first date available to give all the necessary explanations and answer the questions of all the questions of all the questions.” All probability will be on July 9 if the International Agenda allows it, and the PSOE will also promote an investigation commission on the Koldo/Ábalos/Cerdán case in the Congress of Deputies.
Sánchez wanted to respond to his own and strangers who caricaturize his permanence in the government with an assumption of maintaining power at any price and looked hand in a phrase that still resonates in the collective imaginary of the socialist family, used by the Asturian Javier Fernández when he was president of the manager who led the party after a convulse Federal Committee in 2016 that ended the resignation of Sánchez. “First, Spain and then, the party,” he said in his public appearance to silence the internal criticism of those whom he accuses of having segated the grass under his feet from the first day that he arrived at the General Secretariat.
The Socialists know, in any case, that today neither Felipe González nor Alfonso Guerra nor Joaquín Leguina nor Eduardo Madina, much less, Susana Díaz, would be able to articulate a viable alternative to the current address. That is why the federal executive conjured to protect the government, although nobody knows how far the scandal can climb. Also to prevent the rights from arriving at the Government of Spain and for the Secretary General to have hands free in the rearmament of a PSOE still attracted to the scandals.
Sánchez delimited, of course, the changes that he will apparently submitted to the Federal Committee on the 5th day to the organization area, but no one rules out that they finally go further, although it became clear that the PSOE returns to hands free to its secretary general to pilot the rearma of the party. And the same goes for the possible relay within the government that they claim and that the president wants to avoid at the moment because in his opinion “it is an issue that affects the party and not the cabinet.” It would not be, in principle, until autumn when new faces can be seen around the table of the Council of Ministers.
Far from amilasting, the leader of the PSOE thus undertakes, in the words of some voices of the direction, “a flight forward” that could stop abruptly if the research proves that there are more socialists involved. Of that, the entire federal executive is fully aware. And perhaps that is why there was a debate on whether, after the appointment of a Secretariat of Coral Organization to the top body of the party between congresses, an extraordinary congress or a political conference had to be convened. The first was noted by the Secretary of Institutional Policy, The Andalusian Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis, while his colleague of Federation and responsible for electoral action and analysis, Francisco Salazar, rejected him flat. Patxi López was not sure if one or the other while the Secretary of Municipal Policy, Alejandro Soler, defended the celebration of a political conference. The rest was favorable to limit the debate to the next Federal Committee. “Without times and without word limitations. If we have to sleep all in Madrid that night, we stay, but it must be a free debate,” says a leadership leader.
Frankness in the analysis
This is also the general secretary, who at the beginning of this Monday’s meeting asked his co -religionists “frankness” in his analysis and that no one limits the interventions. A Sánchez again Resilient ruled out before its executives an electoral superdomyo that groupes, when the time comes, the call for generals, regional and local. “There was an elephant in the room and the president did not dodge it,” says another socialist present in the conclave and fearful that wear and lack of credibility accumulating Sánchez has consequences for mayors and regional presidents, as already happened in 2023 when he lost much of the institutional power.
“My duty now, as Captain, is to take the helm, cup this storm, take measures to recover the confidence of the Spaniards in the PSOE and protect the progressive coalition government,” the president reiterated in response to those who demand that he convene elections. “Some colleagues are legitimately raising different options and I encourage them to intervene in the Federal Committee, to do so in the internal organs. Criticism will always be welcome because this is an organization with internal democracy, which is what guarantees its autonomy in decision making,” he emphasized in an explicit invitation to the entire leadership.
Source: www.eldiario.es
