From the right, it is curious, they are criticizing Pedro Sánchez for changing half of the PSOE executive and announcing it before it was ratified by the federal committee, the most important body of the party between congresses, in charge in any case to approve these new appointments. The curiosity derives from the fact that just three months ago, the PP deposed neither more nor less than its then president, Pablo Casado, and his entire team, after stabbing him, but without mediating any debate. It is therefore striking that now insist on seeing the speck in someone else’s eye. And yes, it would have been better for Sánchez to wait for the federal government to ratify his proposals before announcing them, because of respecting internal processes, but ran the risk of leaking out of control, something that did not happen when it was leaked – what a paradox! – officially.
The really important thing about the changes undertaken by the socialist leader at the top of his party is, however, the speed of response. Because it has been loud and all the new positions and spokespersons, without even giving them time to take possession of their offices, they have stormed out to carry out the task entrusted to them: to sell the government’s policies, to be close to the long-suffering citizens and to publicly admit that the coalition’s internal noise harms them. It seems that what Sánchez has been looking for with that shock to the match is that the PSOE be present again in the debate politician, from which he had disappeared months ago, partly due to desistance, partly overshadowed by the omnipresence of its leader. It is also that Sánchez himself, suffering from an intrinsic coldness, and the new socialist leaders identify with those citizens who have problems to make ends meet and are desperate for the price of electricity, food or gasoline. What amounts to being empathic, now that empathy has become the new mantra with which the PSOE intends to reconnect with its voters.