The PSOE warns that the war in the PP only “gives Vox more gasoline”
When last Thursday the PP was opened in channel, it was inevitable not to look back, until October 1, 2016, when, after 12 hours of pitched battle in Ferraz, the PSOE broke. But neither the context, nor the protagonists, nor the conditions of the war, nor the internal architecture of the two parties, both systemic, are similar. Nor are the potential exit routes. That one, the one from more than five years ago, the one fought by Pedro Sánchez and the socialist barons and notables led by Susana Díaz, was an equally “very painful” contest, but it was not reduced to a struggle for power. It was, as all the leaders consulted agree, an ideological struggle, structured around the dilemma between “no means no” to Mariano Rajoy and abstention, as well as an organic and personal confrontation. Sánchez and Díaz had not been friends nor were they later, nor did they share a political career. Pablo Casado and Isabel Díaz Ayuso are, on the other hand, a wedge of the same wood, they both come from Madrid’s New Generations and have maintained a friendly relationship for 17 years. Until today, when his political and personal divorce has plunged the entire PP into an absolute civil war. With another element, no less, that did not cross in the socialist crisis: the accusations of corruption and espionage. But the socialists, after the impact of the crossed daggers between Ayuso and Casado, and in the absence of knowing the scope of the closure (probably false) of the conflict this Saturday, are also convinced that the war in the PP does not benefit them . It gives “more gasoline to Vox”, according to the most widespread reading in the Executive and in the party.