Former Lehendakari Patxi López and the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, gain strength as options to reinforce the Socialists for the next electoral cycle
It will not be a surgical adjustment. In the PSOE they already suspected it but the call of the Federal Committee leaves no room for doubt. Pedro Sánchez will not limit himself to replacing Adriana Lastra as head of the deputy general secretary after his resignation last Monday. What he has in mind are changes in the “structure” of the executive that came out of the 40th Congress held in Valencia just nine months ago and even in the leadership of the parliamentary groups.
Speculation runs like wildfire although no one dares to take anything for granted. The leader of the Socialists keeps a huge secret and not even some of the alleged affected, for better or for worse, have yet received clues of what the future holds. Not a call. “No one has told me anything at all,” admitted one of the alleged outgoing charges this morning. “We will be the last to know,” they also say in the team of a rising figure in the pools.
The names of exlehendakari Patxi López and Pilar Alegría sound like key positions. The first, specifically, is placed in the spokesperson for the lower house or for the party leadership itself, of which he is already a member as secretary of Democratic Memory. The Minister of Education, one of the incorporations both to the Government and to the executive, with whom Sánchez staged the internal reconciliation last year (she was a key player in Susana Díaz’s candidacy for the general secretary) now only occupies a position but it is assumed that he will assume a position of responsibility.
The fact that Sánchez convened the Federal Committee yesterday for Saturday already triggered the alarms of those most experienced in organic matters and convinced them that this time he would not limit himself to appointing an electoral committee as, according to some sources, had been proposed in a first moment to move the pole of power towards Moncloa (all eyes were on his deputy cabinet director, Antonio Hernando), and neutralize Ferraz, limping due to the quarrels that the former deputy general secretary had with the secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán.
internal revolution
Lastra’s resignation announcement on Monday blew up that solution and put the idea of an internal revolution back on the table. There is a widespread feeling in the party that communication is failing and that there is a lack of referents with political clout and credibility to transmit messages at a time of enormous political difficulty, with galloping inflation capable of devouring a good part of the social measures that have been launched by the Government.
This has placed in the spotlight both the spokesman for the executive, Lastra’s confidant, Felipe Sicilia, and the spokespersons in Congress and the Senate, Héctor Gómez and Eva Granados.
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