Pedro Sanchez will use the Federal Congress November to silence the growing internal noise within the PSOE. The general secretary of the socialists sees the Seville conclave as a repeat of his competition with the former president of Andalusia Susana Díaz in 2017. Although on this occasion a rival has not crystallized with whom to fight in a primary, the sources consulted in the party assure that the leader of the party, who will be re-elected by acclamation, only seeks to cut off the feeling of internal questioning that has been installed since the fiscal pact signed with Catalonia.
The president himself, in an informal gathering with journalists on October 12, said that Congress It will be very important from the point of view of political orientation and there will be discursive renewal. Sánchez is willing to metamorphose the party once again so that it is based on the political principles on which he bases his government: alliances with the independence movement and acceptance of the necessary trade-offs to hold power.
Perhaps, as the sources consulted comment, There is still no nemesis to counteract the hyper-leadership of the ‘big boss’, because it is very cold outside the central government. The Executive has become a refuge for many socialist cadres. And that is precisely what they cling to. “No one bites the hand that feeds,” summarizes a socialist with two decades of positions within the party.
The political current that Sánchez represents in the history of the PSOE has a different thought than that of Felipe González’s generation. There are socialist leaders today who have desacralized the Transition. “What constitutional pact? There is a Constitution, there is a regulatory framework that must be respected, as it cannot be otherwise. But there is no pact. If we talk about a constitutional pact, well, look, Popular Alliance did not vote for the eighth title. That is, the territorial organization of the State,” justifies a veteran socialist.
That idea is already engraved in the DNA of an entire generation of commanders who lead the PSOE. “And the Youth, you see, because there the questioning is directed to the King”summarizes another socialist source. Sánchez, therefore, is surfing a wave of old-fashioned questioning that allows him, in a certain way, to make decisions that may compromise the idea of State or country that dominated the PSOE after Franco’s death. And that explains why for him the pacts with the independence movement are not unacceptable blackmail, but rather an opportunity to have power if he negotiates with them.
The war with the barons
In truth, Sánchez is worried, because he envisions the most turbulent Federal Congress since he led the party. And all because it has been imposed on several federations that intended to advance their own regional congresses to reach the great conclave with their leaderships already resolved. But Sánchez has prevented it. The current socialist apparatus wants to place its particular dolphins in some territories.
Ferraz’s noble team is promoting alternative candidates in territories such as Madrid. Sources from that plant admit the internal conflict in the most problematic federation in Spain. And some indicated addresses, in conversation with this newspaper, send a warning to the boss: “He’s weak to get into trouble”. The socialist officials smell blood in Moncloa and they are going to take advantage of it. Sánchez is at the center of a perfect storm; besieged by the scandals surrounding him in Moncloa.
The murmur of changes is already going through the game. Sánchez keeps the touch-ups he will make a secret, but they are almost taken for granted. For now, everything is mere speculation. It is said that it may affect the faces of PSOE communication, such as the executive’s spokesperson, Esther Peña, who would not have finished as the president expected. Or his colleague in the Congress of Deputies, Patxi López. The departure of the secretary of organization, Santos Cerdán, also prices upwards, where the Secretary of State for Telecommunications sounds, Antonio Hernando. But only the president knows what pieces he will move.
In any case, the PSOE expects Sánchez to match the changes in the socialist organizational chart with the tweak(s) in Moncloa that will occur with the departure of the third vice president, Teresa Riberaheading to Brussels, where he will join the community cabinet of the German conservative Ursula von der Leyen. Sánchez assures that his idea is that the change is “only Teresa.” But Moncloa is also preparing for major changes.
This Thursday the organizing committee of the Federal Congress met in Ferraz, which reviewed the key points of the organization and established the next phases to follow, including the framework presentation which will be sent to the provinces on October 25.
The event was chaired by the first vice president and Minister of Finance, deputy secretary general of the PSOE and deputy coordinator, María Jesús Montero and by the secretary of organization and general coordinator, Santos Cerdán. The rest of the committee members also attended the meeting: the spokesperson, Esther Peña, and the members Juan Francisco Serrano, Ana María Fuentes, Francisco Salazar, Enma López, Ion Antolin and Eladio Garzón.
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