Jose Luis Abalos and Santos Cerdan They have nothing to do with the Socialist Workers Party and the fault for the lack of budgets lies with the People’s Party.
Basically, these are the two defensive arguments the government is putting forward after this emotional Thursday, one of the worst days for… Pedro Sanchez.
On the same day, he was imprisoned José Luis Abalos and Koldo Garcia Congress rejected the first step from the state’s general budgets, indicating a new extension of the accounts.
Secretly, the socialist leaders and some members of the government do not hide their concern at the prospect of seeing the second secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party organization enter prison, within a very few months.
The person who defended the motion of censure against Congress on the Congress platform is in prison. Mariano Rajoy Which brought Sánchez to Moncloa in 2018. He did so with a strong speech against corruption and the imprisonment is historic and very symbolic because he is the second organizing secretary of the Socialist Workers Party to go to prison in a few months.
These leaders confirm that the Prime Minister is sitting on a keg of gunpowder and that it is very difficult to remain calm. It’s not easy to act like Sanchez: dust off your suit and pretend nothing happened.
On the one hand, the government is no longer able to change the political agenda with issues that are in its favor.
On the other hand, in recent days they have confirmed that the thread that united Ábalos and Koldo García with the PSOE, which allowed them to “stay calm”, has been broken. Both have witnessed Sanchez’s entire journey from the primaries to here.
They admit that Sanchez cannot look the other way. This is evident, for example, in the fact that he did not go to vote on Thursday in Congress so as not to be asked about Abalos and so as not to witness the parliamentary defeat on the deficit path.
He almost only goes for interviews Influencers also PodcastersOr he keeps up with TikTok videos so he doesn’t get asked about these things.
They explain that it is not that Abalos and Koldo can implicate the socialist leader in illegal matters – they do not want to believe that – but rather that they can uncover unknown political movements that may be uncomfortable. Not everything that happens in politics can be counted.
It is like the cliché attributed to him Otto von Bismarck“Laws are like sausages: it is better not to see how they are made.” Well, the same thing happens with party politics, as these socialist sources show.
Prominent leaders even publicly claim that the imprisoned person is in fact a member of the mixed group, because he was expelled from the Socialist Workers Party. They say: “The person who will go to prison is a deputy from the mixed group.”
They claim that nothing new has been revealed that differs from what has been known for months, and that what they have revealed has already damaged Sánchez, the government and the PSOE, but they are already beginning to recover.
“There is not even a hint of the Socialist Workers Party in any known car,” they explain, willingly out of false optimism to try to ensure that there are no traces of illegal financing of the party.
The two “were” PSOE
This version omits that Abalos and Cerdan were at different times Sanchez’s right-hand menThe implementers of their strategies, the people under their direct orders, and those who are sent into complex negotiations and procedures.
And that every one of them He was The Socialist Workers’ Party, because of the enormous power it enjoyed in the party, at headquarters, and in every region.
The argument you want now Pack everything in Ábalos, Koldo García and CerdánAs happened when they wanted to surround him, in the beginning, about who was the assistant minister.
The People’s Party intends to take advantage of the government’s weakness due to its lack of parliamentary support and a series of negative judicial rulings. Looking to get a contract science Anti-SanchismHe takes it away from the Vox Party, with which he competes for the same electoral space.
For this reason, Alberto Nunez Viejo He responded by calling for a Sunday march at the Debod Temple in Madrid “against the corrupt and those who support them,” referring to Pedro Sanchez, “the apple who corrupted everything and everyone around him.”
The People’s Party leader asserts that what happened on Thursday is not an “isolated event,” but rather part of the “degeneration” that, in his opinion, has accompanied the president “since he came to power.”
And according to what he said, it would be “Urban” focus, without shortcuts and open to all citizens“, under the slogan “Really: Mafia or Democracy?”, in reusing what they had previously used in a similar event months ago.
The PSOE responded by reminding that the PP currently has an open scandal in Almería, so the demonstration is not against corruption, but against the Sánchez government.
Coincidentally, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s request for the preventive detention of Abalos and Koldo García yesterday coincided with the parliamentary defeat of the deficit track.
The three deputy ministers –Maria Jesus Montero, Oscar Puente and Felix Bolaños– Move quickly into the conference hall. Sanchez didn’t even go to vote.
Moncloa confirms that he was with the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter SteinmeierOn an official visit to Spain.
Sánchez was arrested for imprisoning Ábalos in another moment of parliamentary weakness, due to the break with Juntes and distance from Podemos. Independents voted against this Thursday, along with the People’s Party, Vox, and those from the People’s Party Ione Bellara Abstain from voting.
The government reacted to the defeat by blaming the People’s Party for rejecting a deficit path which, they explained, would result in communities receiving “$5.485 million less fiscal margin”.
They stressed that “the People’s Party voted against its communities receiving more resources for health, education and social services.”
Congress will have to vote again in a few weeks on the same deficit path, and if it is not also approved, the draft budget will have to be adjusted to match the one in effect since 2022.
The government insists that it will present the project next February The hope is to be able to convince Gantz and Podemos to return to the bloc. But he realizes that the chances of achieving this are slim, as is his intention to continue the Legislative Council until 2027.
Investment partners also find it almost impossible.
But for now, Sánchez has won until February, when Congress will reopen for key votes.
The echo of all these setbacks did not even allow the Socialist Workers’ Party and the government to attack the People’s Party over its agreement in the Valencian Community to appoint the president. Juanfran Pérez Yurca.
They tried, but it was all buried by a Supreme Court judge’s decision and a vote of Congress.