With the polls against, continuous problems with Podemos and the “friends & rdquor; of CKD, and on top of that an IPC of 10%, do you think Sánchez can resurrect? It was the question that an anguished ex-leader of the PSC asked me, after the Andalusian women.
The question is still up in the air. But Pedro Sánchez is clear: it will resurface. He did it in the debate on the state of the nation with the “turn to the left & rdquor; (curiously, after Morocco and the NATO summit), he recovered the deal with Aragonès and managed to approve in Congress the Democratic Memory Law, the reform of the General Council of the Judiciary and the second economic decree. And immediately, after the resignation of Adriana Lastra, he has renewed the leadership of the PSOE and has created a leadership nucleus of nine members, which is an amalgamation of ministers and party leaders.
The most emblematic relay is that of María Jesús Montero, the Minister of Finance which has been characterized by its pragmatism and proximity to the president, replacing Adriana Lastra, an exponent of leftist sanchismo. The second is the promotion of Patxi López to the spokesperson in Congress instead of the unknown Héctor Gómez. Patxi López embodies centrality (he was a candidate against Sánchez and against Susana Díaz to lead the PSOE, with the help of Óscar López, another of the nine), and has been the only Lendakari who was not a member of the PNV. He was agreeing with the PP and it is absurd to accuse him of being pro-Bildu. The third relay is that of Pilar Alegría, Minister of Education, former leader of the Aragonese PSOE and linked to Susana Díaz’s campaign, to replace Felipe Sicilia, the PSOE spokesperson appointed by Lastra.
These are the three big changes. They do not seem so much a turn to the left as an attempt to resurrect the PSOE appealing to their identity and plurality and to the management of the Government. That is why the presence in the new leadership nucleus of Montero, Pilar Alegría and Félix Bolaños, the willful minister for everything. That of Patxi López and Santos Cerdán (not changing driver in the middle of the race) also pays attention to Euskadi and Navarra, to the Spain where there is a lot of nationalist presence. And that of Miquel Iceta, who resisted the great attack on the PSC, and the firm Eva Granados indicate that Sánchez knows that the PSC is key both to get deputies out of Madrid and so that ERC and Junts do not believe that Catalonia is theirs.
Maria Jesus Montero, Patxi Lopez and Miquel Iceta indicate social democratic praxis and recovery of politics, a certain rectification regarding the “modernist & rdquor; last change of government. Sánchez wants, but can he? The CIS on Tuesday gave the winner to the PP, which rises 10 points from the last general while the PSOE does not fall, but stagnates. And Feijóo grows, also recovering votes from Vox, which drops three points compared to 2019. Sánchez’s consolation is that despite the strong attrition (pandemic, crisis), he is still, although just barely (22.1% against 20.8% of Feijoo) preferred as president.
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to resurrect, Sánchez has formalized a kind of politburo (mixture of ministers and party positions), but not communist but social democrat. Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to proceed with a profound remodeling of the Government?
Is it logical that the finance minister – overloaded with conflicts – is also, at least in theory, the deputy secretary of the party? And that the Minister of Education has the task of being, at the same time, the socialist propagandist? would have to keep the forms more and not mix so much the party with the Government. But the priority is another.