“It’s going to be death by pinching.” In this graphic way, a veteran PSOE deputy describes what is happening to the party and the government, and the state of mind with which they face it.
They have the impression that the ordeal will be long because the message that Moncloa sends continues to be this. Pedro Sanchez It is ready to continue until 2027. As if nothing had happened.
The president, as they explain, considers that there is no reason to end the legislature and transmits the slogan that all scandals revolve around the trio that they form. Jose Luis Abalos, Santos Cerdan And Koldo Garcia.
And of course they try to distance themselves Leire Diez And Vicente Fernándezeven if it becomes more and more difficult for them.
“I have had no contact with this man since he left SEPI,” he said. Maria Jesus Montero this Thursday on who was his close collaborator as president of this organization.
Sánchez continues to believe, they add, that the parliamentary partners will not turn against him because none of them wants to be responsible for the arrival in Moncloa of a coalition of the PP and Vox.
And so, the legislator continues to move forward with accumulation of setbacks that erode the governmentthey make MPs uncomfortable, they fill the political agenda and prevent the approval of measures that justify resistance.
Expressions such as “Sánchez surrounded”, “the PSOE in shock” or “the government blocked” in the face of Sánchez’s resistance are exhausted in the chronicles, but pinch by pinch, despair spreads and attrition increases.
Now we talk about it openly.”end of cycle“, although this end does not come immediately, but first we have to go through a harsh ordeal in which, moreover, there is no control over events. We live from day to day and wait for the explosion of hidden mines.
There are more and more pessimists within the government and the PSOE who view Sánchez’s goals with suspicion.
In a few days Ábalos and Koldo Garcia were imprisoned and their prosecutions were confirmed; the state attorney general was convicted; It turned out that Sánchez’s advisor was protected for months, Paco Salazar accused of sexual abuse; and the call was stopped plumber of the PSOE, Leire DiezAnd Vicente Fernándezformer chairman of the parent company of all state-owned enterprises.
Not a breath
Late Thursday, a UCO report was released on the hydrocarbon conspiracy, which is being investigated in another summary, with alleged bribery.
It is said that There are “numerous” indications of its “possible penetration” at “management levels” of three different ministries: Transport, mobility and urban agenda; that of Industry, Commerce and Tourism; and that of Ecological transition and demographic challenge.
And the day ended with the resignation of the secretary of studies and programs of the executive of the PSOE and senator, Javier Izquierdoapparently in connection with a new sexual harassment complaint.
It’s a day in the life of the government and the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez: not a moment of respite.
All this happened while the President of the Government showed his extreme political weakness with an act of extreme contrition in front of Carles Puigdemont to regain his favors and lose votes on the path to deficit, which foresees that there will be no general state budgets during the entire legislature.
Party leaders and middle managers in the communities are panicked about how the minefield the Prime Minister wants to cross could affect them. And they see that the worst awaits them at the moment when the inaction of the party leadership is confirmed, the emptiness at the PSOE headquarters.
The proof, as they explain, is the electoral campaign in Extremadura, in which the PSOE, that is, Sánchez, failed to convey a single message.
More arrests
The last two arrests have sowed discouragement among socialists. Firstly because they affect such a sensitive engine of the State as SEPI, the parent company of all public companies in which thousands of contracts and allocations are signed each year.
Secondly, because it affects the number two in the government and the party, who will be a candidate in a stronghold as difficult and decisive as Andalusia. Montero, moreover, is already being questioned internally for the handling of complaints against Salazar.
And third, because connect different overlapping plots which provide an overview of systemic corruption. A diagram is drawn in which the pieces of Ábalos, Koldo, Cerdán, Leire Díez, Vicente Fernández and Antxon fit together, without being able to see the end of the matter for the moment.
Sánchez has difficulty changing the rhythm with plot twists like democratic memory, the time change or social measures.
Their trick today is to try to drop the ball and wait for Congress to reopen in February.
They assure that they will maintain the schedule which includes the presentation of budgets to Congress in February. For now, on Monday, the president will appear at the press conference to review the semester, but I can’t control events.
He continues to cling to criticism of the PP for the management of public services in communities and good macroeconomic data.
But even there he has difficulties, because his parliamentary partner Gabriel Rufián (ERC) has started to attack on the side of microeconomics and the difficulties of the working classes to fill the refrigerator and make ends meet.
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