The phrase was written in very small letters on a huge mural, a kind of tribute to militancy – dozens of people appear sketched on it – the size of a bus, at the entrance to the cafeteria and refreshment post set up at the 41st Congress. of the PSOE: “We will need all our intelligence“.
The phrase can summarize the recipe that the PSOE intends to apply to itself in the near future: “Intelligence”, “containment” and “positive energy”. The general key of the conclave, held in the midst of several judicial investigations, and in a context of fierce and non-stop political reproaches from the right, as summarized by a veteran leader, is this: “Closing ranks against the immoral and savage attack of the right“. For another, the summary is: “In times of tribulation, it is better not to make changes.”
“Positive energy,” he summarized Pedro Sanchez at the start of the closing rally. “Militancy is the heart. They harass us because we are a reference for millions and millions of people,” he added.
In this congress, as happened in the last electoral campaign, the party clung to the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapaterowho tried to instil “hope” and recommended “containment and patience.”
Sánchez picked up the glove Shoemaker: “At every attack, a progressive policy,” he proclaimed. “I have thought a lot about what to do with my life. If after seven or ten years I had to take a step to the side, a step back. I have talked a lot with my entire familywho are also victims of hatred from professional haters. “It’s time to take a step forward, not to the side or back,” he said.
Begoña Gómez He did not hide during the two days of Congress. He appeared on Sunday at the closing rally of the congress along with Santos Cerdan and also on Saturday afternoon and received numerous signs of affection from the party officials he met. “Time will put everything in its place,” said Gómez.
Sánchez had an entrance, right after Gómez and Cerdán, which was very effective at Sunday’s event. Lights off, microphones on full blast emitting a beatwhich maintained the suspense, while the PSOE logo with the icon next to the heart was displayed on the screens. Some bracelets, which had been distributed among the militancy, began to vibrate synchronously and emit red and white lights.
Hundreds of LGTBI+ Flags also waved during Sánchez’s rally, after the party excluded people queer and identities framed as ‘plus’ to their political documents.
The origins and myths
One of the images that Congress left, very relevant, especially in Andalusia, was the recovery for the cause of two historical figures after the ruling of the Constitutional Court on the ERE, the former presidents of the Junta de Andalucía, Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán.
The myth of Pablo Iglesias, was present through books, for sale in standsand, above all, with a comic by Alfonso Zapico, The burning word of Pablo Iglesiaswhich could be read on a mural at the entrance.
It includes a vignette that recovers the founding of the PSOE in Labra House in Madrid: “On May 2, 1879, twenty-five companions attended a fraternity meal at Casa Labra: sixteen typographers, four doctors, a doctor, two jewelers, a marble maker and a shoemaker. The PSOE was born.”
The congress was held in Seville, Andalusia, the traditional PSOE vote barn, until in 2018, right in the December 2 electionslost the autonomous government, after the alliance of PP with Ciudadanos and Vox.
A combo of photographs, mainly of Pablo Juliathey remembered the years of the fight for autonomy in Andalusia through, above all, the adventures and adventures of Rafael Escuredothe first president of the Board elected after elections. It was in 1982, when the Andalusian PSOE achieved a huge victory, 66 deputies out of 109 and 52.77% of the votes.
The 41st Congress of the PSOE closed, with the delegates, fists raised, singing the Internationalreference of the labor movement.
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