Socialist senator and president of the Junta de Andalucía between 2013 and 2019, Susana Díaz believes that the PSOE is going through one of the worst moments in its history in terms of credibility and “deterioration” of its image due to cases of … the corruption that surfaces every day. The latest episode was the arrest of Leire Díez, the so-called “plumber” in the service of Santos Cerdán, and of the former president of SEPI Vicente Fernández, former strongman of María Jesús Montero. A few days earlier, the case of alleged sexual harassment committed against Moncloa workers by Paco Salazar, one of President Pedro Sánchez’s closest collaboratorsas well as José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, now suspected of profiting from illegal commissions.
In statements made this Thursday on the program Onda Cero “Finally”, Susana Díaz advised her religious colleagues to apologize to the Spanish people for “embarrassing behaviors» which cause a “deterioration” of the party’s image and which lead it to a “dead end”. Last June, the former Andalusian leader, who lost a primary against Pedro Sánchez in 2017, He urged the president to call early elections, before 2027, or a “death by pinch” could come for his party, a message he has now repeated.
“We socialists cannot behave like this, like so-called scoundrels and with embarrassing and shameful behavior,” said Susana Díaz. He spoke of his father, now deceased, who “taught him that If he wanted to go into politics, fine, let him enter it, but he didn’t want to lower his head.“, and “today, many socialists are tempted to lower their heads in the face of what is happening”, he warned. “It is not fair”, because “the vast majority of people who are active in this party and who gave their lives” for it, “are honest and honorable people”.
“The first thing we must do is apologize to the Spanish people, because what appears every day is embarrassing”
Susana Díaz stressed that “the first thing we must do” from the PSOE, “beyond the fact that later the crimes are one or the other, the guilty pays and justice speaks”, is to “ask for forgiveness” from the Spaniards, “because what appears every day is embarrassing, and it is ethically wrong“.
The former president insisted on “the sadness that exists in the homes of the people, among activists, the disappointment that exists among many socialist voters”, to whom she sent encouragement, convinced that These “so-called scoundrels” will not take away the pride of socialists of what they feel, their values and who they are. “Now we must speak,” but beyond telling people that justice will speak, we must insist that “whoever pays, we must ask for forgiveness.”
It’s a “death by pinch”
It’s “death by pinch” and “it’s becoming less and less clear that there is a window of opportunity,” he said. “The deterioration that is occurring, both in the image of our party as well as the institutions themselves, overshadows the progress, achievements and what has been achieved during these years” of the socialist government chaired by Pedro Sánchez.
That said, the Andalusian senator listed some “achievements” of this executive: “No one can say that there are more people working” currently in Spain “than The minimum wage has increased, allowing retirees to feel more protected“, but everything we know generates a deterioration which “eclipses, covers and blocks each of these achievements”.
Finally, Susana Díaz emphasizes that we are in an “already very complicated situation” and spoke of the teachings of “masters” such as the former secretary general of the PSOE and former Minister of the Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, now deceasedwho assured that “first there was Spain, then the PSOE and then yourself”.
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