I realize that it was Pedro Sánchez saying, without any shame, that José Luis Ábalos was, from a personal point of view, very alien to him, which prompted me to reread “The Resistance Manual,” the book he wrote through surrogacy. I’ll tell you that … It has gained a lot of weight over time (and in legal cases) and has become, in my opinion, a classic of unintentional humor. Regarding Abalos, a man he does not know personally, he says that “in those times (after his departure from the General Secretariat of the Socialist Workers Party) there were many people from the party who strengthen their relations with me,” among others, Abalos, and that “we create a very special complicity.” A little further, he points out that Abalos shared Adriana Lastra’s opinion that “the only person who can correct this process and win is Pedro” and “I discovered in him a consistent person.” A coherent person with a very special complicity, but he does not know it, although it whispers to him precious things, such as “The socialist position of refusing to let the right to rule goes with you” or “You have accumulated enormous political capital of coherence and you cannot transfer it to anyone.” Because of my own ignorance, I insisted on holding an event in the Valencian community. He says: “I assured him that I had not decided anything, and he replied (…) I had to deal with the struggle that he felt was an orphan and he needed to know that I was there in some way.” Spoiler: “Finally, he convinced me, and at the end of November, about a month after I resigned as MP, we held this event in Chirivella.” The event was enormous (“I overflowed with all expectations, even those of those who knew, like Abalos, that there were more people behind me than I knew”) and between surprise and emotion, the unknown Abalos said to him again “—that is what it is—.” He was with him from the beginning (Adriana, José Luis Abalos and Kiko Toscano showed their faces in the media), even without knowing each other, even when no one seemed to believe in him (“Probably many thought where these crazy people were headed”). Even Koldo, who did not seem to know him either, was assigned the task of staying in the office for two nights to guard the guarantees of his candidacy for the position of Secretary-General. Pay attention to the three who knew the number of guarantees collected: Santos Cerdán, Paco Salazar and himself. The best of every home.
No, seriously, I highly recommend it. On page 82 he even says, in all its meaning, that “the demand for cleanliness and decency in public life (…) is also a value, and perhaps the most necessary at this time. The PP’s tolerance of corruption, its positions under judicial or political suspicion, all of this erodes citizens’ confidence in the political system. (…) The cost we all pay in institutional decline is enormous. The Pedro Sánchez then gives Pedro Sánchez no comfort now. I still continue reading.”
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