At no point has he mentioned Felipe González, one of the great absentees from the PSOE federal congress. Nor to Emiliano García-Page, the Castilian-La Mancha president who once again establishes himself as the main critical voice of the leadership of his party. But José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s message sounded clear this Saturday in Seville. “We need more loyalty than ever to the PSOE and the Government, because the opposite is giving encouragement to the right and the extreme right, those who have defended Franco’s dictatorship in Congress this week.”
Zapatero’s request to his fellow members comes in the middle of the self-defense strategy that the Socialists’ conclave has become this weekend and in the middle of the judicial offensive that the right and the extreme right are trying to encircle. to Pedro Sánchez. “Just as we supported before, now we have to support. And now we must support this Government that has given a lot to the progress of this country,” he insisted.
The former president, who has become one of the main strikers of the left since the last general elections, has also called for calm among his colleagues and the leadership of his own party. “I lived the greatest fake new of the history of democracy: the 11M attack. And we had restraint and patience. We fight, of course, in defense of the truth. But knowing how to endure is essential. The president and his family are suffering unusual attacks. I also received very harsh attacks. And? Time has passed and here I am. Not bad. Time passes and the truth makes its way.”
Zapatero has suggested to the Government that, in the face of the all-out offensive to destabilize the president, it accelerate the agenda of progressive reforms. “To each fake new, a progressive policy. You have to go out to explain, to defend, to convince. And that requires courage and solidarity with the Government. They are attacking like crazy. And they can have pseudomedia, but let’s worry about having the force of the argument.” And that is why he has asked for “more reforms, more laws, more progress policies.”
“It is going to be difficult for this right to change, they are going to need new electoral defeats,” he ventured before warning about the risks of anti-politics being fueled by catastrophes like DANA. “If we do not build and convey that hope that things can improve, that is when progressives may doubt,” he concluded.
In the afternoon, and after a working lunch with Pedro Sánchez, García-Page from Castile-La Mancha distanced himself from this call to close ranks with the Government and has returned to the charge against his party’s roadmap and has openly criticized the “victimhood” of denouncing the judicial offensive faced by the Executive.
“Victimism is always the last resort of any political project and can only have any logic when it is preceded by a tremendous dose of self-criticism. The Spanish would appreciate it if the PSOE at some point said outwardly that we could be wrong. That would also give credibility to all the unfounded accusations that are being made against us,” he told the press.
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