The PSOE entrenches itself in the role of victim and closes the way to dissidence and self-criticism in its 41st Federal Congress held in Seville. While waiting for the absolute leader, Pedro Sánchez, to give his speech on Sunday, the party is striving to project en bloc the messages of strength around which its speech is currently articulated: the ““unprecedented attack on democracy” that Sánchez suffers, a “manhunt” and a “hate industry” that tries to put an end by all means to the most progressive government in Europe with which Spain “advances on the left.”
The Congress, which was intended to relaunch the figure of Pedro Sánchez with a PSOE more inclined to its left, is becoming a act of resistance in the face of judicial scandals who surround Ferraz and Moncloa for corruption. The unknowns remain to be resolved as to whether the general secretary will keep Santos Cerdán and María Jesús Montero at the helm of the party and the faces he will incorporate into the federal leadership. But the strategy is already defensive. Of resistance. And to avoid dissenting voices with the official line.
All day long they debate more than 6,000 amendments to the political presentationwhich proposes a turn to the left with a more federalist state, with the fit of unique financing for Catalonia, more taxes and conditioning the entire economic policy on the fight against climate change. Although the topics in the groups are different: Lobato, De Aldama, Koldo, Begoña Gómez, Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz…
critical voices
The former general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE and former president of the Junta de Andalucía, Susana Diazhas been the only one today who has expressed out loud that atmosphere that weighs on the congress. Upon his arrival at the event, he expressed the need for a PSOE that is “breathable, livable” and “where everyone can give their opinion without being hit with a blanket of blows.” Díaz has assumed his role “on the bench”, although he warns: “I’m still young.”
Others whose dissidence with respect to the current leadership is well known, such as Emiliano García Pagewere absent on the morning of the official opening of the Congress to avoid the hassle of having to applaud the management report of the organization secretary, Santos Cerdán. When he finally appeared in Seville it was to recommend to his party “not to play the role of victim” if it is not first preceded by “a good dose of self-criticism”, because that role, that of victim, “is the last resort.” “. Lambanalready on his way out, had previously renounced appearing in congress.
Early in the morning, maneuvers to remove those who are not on the official train from the focus had already emerged. In the press circles the general secretary of the PSOE-A, Juan Espadashad summoned the provincial general secretaries of the community to a post-congress meal, leaving out the one from Cádiz, Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix. The Andalusian leader, against whom there is internal opposition, is expected to announce the dates of the regional congress next week.
Espadas, as host, has starred after the welcome speech. He was then asked to speak from Socialist Left to open a debate on the management of the outgoing executive. Espadas did not grant it. He got out of it with a “it will be recorded.”
Chaves and Griñán
So all the focus was on the start of the day on Saturday to Chaves and Griñántwo former presidents of the PSOE and former presidents of the Board, and also two convicted in the ERE case who are waiting to hear the new sentence after the TC partially annulled the one that condemned them both.
Espadas has taken advantage of his intervention to dedicate a “very special” thanksas general secretary of the Andalusian socialists, to Chaves and Griñán, and also to other former senior officials involved in the ERE case.
The leader of the PSOE-A wanted to dedicate “public recognition” to all of them “for justice” at the opening of the socialist conclave, after which those attending the inauguration stood up and gave a standing ovation to the two, sitting in the front row. “Thank you as public servants for your work, for everything you have given for this land of ours, for Andalusia, so that we can get here today. Thank you, truly, from the heart,” Juan Espadas told Chaves and Griñán.
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