- A wave of complaints
- A gap between management and middle management
- Wear and tear in a key relationship for Sánchez
For the first time since he led the party, the bases designate the president of the government as maximum responsible for the crisis who hits the party, as he learned Digital Confidentiality from socialist sources.
A wave of complaints
To complaints against Francisco Salazarformer employee of Sánchez’s office, – at the origin of the MeToo party – testimonies against the mayor of Torremolinoshe president of the Lugo city councilmember of the Federal Executive —Javier Izquierdo— and the number two of the PSOE in the province of Valencia.
A gap between management and middle management
THE socialist leadership knows full well that this series of cases distances management from middle management and activismfundamental for the continuity of Sánchez. Those close to the president have often highlighted the close link which unites the general secretary to the party baseswhich resurrected him politically in 2018.
“He owes them everything“, summarizes a senior party official about the link between the two. And activism has always supported the socialist leader for having turned left and I approached United we can instead of having arrived in La Moncloa with Ciudadanos hand in hand. Well then. This symbiosis, key to the president’s resistance, is showing signs of wear and tear.
There is a monumental anger in the socialist bases and positions removed from leadership specifically for management of the ‘Salazar affair‘. A malaise which reached the management after five months without responding to complaints from activists against the person who was going to be appointed number two of the party. They emphasize the general secretary, led by Rebeca Torróbut also to Sánchez for not having supervised such a sensitive matter.
Wear and tear in a key relationship for Sánchez
As this medium progressed, middle managers demand resignations or layoffs in the socialist leadership, even if they do not ask for that of Sánchez; but they detect a enormous wear which translate into beginning of the end of internal leadership that the president has had so far. If this the umbilical cord that unites the president to his activism is brokensenior officials assure that this would represent a before and an after.
“All the measures, all the policies of these years “They always respond to the feelings of the activists who have applauded them for seven years,” explains a socialist leader to the ECD. Therefore, the President focused attention on review of the year this Mondayinside feminist spirit which it is trying to recover by 2027.
Sánchez has always tried to respect this linklistening to what came to him from lower levels of the party. But now, for the first time, messages reaching socialist leaders They are not at all flattering and there are starting to be serious doubts about the ability of the PSOE to recover of such a deep crisis, under the same leadership that caused or protected it.
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