The ex-minister and ex-president of Red Eléctrica, Jordi Sevilla, announced in an interview with Europa Press that he would present a manifesto with which he intends to begin the preparation of a social-democratic alternative to the PSOE. Her goal is to be able to replace the current party which, according to her, has adopted the party with the leadership of Pedro Sánchez since he made a pact with Pablo Iglesias in November 2019. Seville considers that the leadership of the PSOE is Caesarean and regrets that there is no counterweight.
Seville explained that she had in mind to launch a “relaunch for the social democracy of the PSOE”, which is now the “tradition” of the party and has produced good results. In this sense, he indicated that he did not intend, as has been accused, to “create another type of party”, but if he moved to the PP: “There will always be someone stupid or stupid who says that, but that’s not it”, he needed before explaining that he is working on the idea of developing a manifesto after the Christmas holidays which will be the basis for creating the alternative that he proposes.
The manifesto will be a “first document of declaration of principles”, from which it explicitly emerges that “the objective is to recover the PSOE for a social-democratic policy” because he considers that it took several years of more “populist” than social-democratic politics: “I try to ensure that around this manifesto there are a sufficient number of you, experienced and valued within the PSOE”, but also “with you the young people who still want to fight for their political future and for politics. the future of Spain,” explained the former minister.
Seville says he talks to “a lot of people” and feels “receptive.” However, he admits that there is also a lot of “prevention”, because he ensures that the people he has contacted find themselves in the situation as he sees it, but some do not know clearly that there is a time to start planning it, but there is a lot of “resignation” and people “take the sponge off” because they have lost the illusion.
He recalls that this project to create a “social-democratic alternative” within the PSOE is due to the fact that this training took place podé Since Pedro Sánchez said his “hug” to Pablo Iglesias, he has accepted a coalition government and is reluctant to implement social democratic policies. In addition, he assures that “it is not Sánchez” with whom he works and criticizes the fact that he gave in to the approval of “amnesty” when he rejected the pacts with Bildu, a formation with which he said he had “nothing to do”.
The former minister admits that “these things need time” and to regain the illusion of his comrades, he wants to present this alternative “in a positive way” and that it materializes in a project that lasts “as long as the Congress” of the party. I believe that the results of the electoral summons, the defeat in Extremadura and the next autonomous elections “will move the ground, change perceptions, emergencies”. According to him, it would not be the same as a defeat for the first vice-president, María Jesús Montero, in Andalusia, as for a little-known candidate like the one from Extremadura. However, Jordi Sevilla says he is “very pragmatic” and does not intend to turn into a confrontation between young and old socialists.
A Caesarist party
The one who was Minister of Public Administration under the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero says he is opposed to the fact that his party is based on a “fan club” structure of Pedro Sánchez. In this sense, he criticizes the lack of counterweight within the Federal Committee, the Executive or the federations, because Pedro Sánchez placed ministers to “control” them. “It is a situation, a call for Caesarism, that we have never seen before in a social democratic party,” he declared, at a time when there was a certain self-criticism to recall that those who, like him, defended the primaries never realized the possibility that there was a general secretary “without counterweight”.
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