Rains, it pours. The socialist collapse in the elections last Sunday in Galicia once again tightens the rope of the PSOE leadership with the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, who is the only one of its regional leaders who maintains a large absolute majority in his territory. “I find it incomprehensible,” the first vice president of the Government and deputy general secretary of the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, replied this Tuesday in an interview on Ser, after the president of La Mancha showed the day before his joy because, with the result of the Galician elections, Carles Puigdemont has not won.
“If the PP had lost the absolute majority in Galicia, today we would be talking about the national consequences and the fall of the PP at the national level, surely it would be considered that it was a legitimization of the amnesty and Puigdemont,” Page warned this Monday, after the socialist setback in Galicia. “If the PP had lost the majority, surely the winner would be Puigdemont, then I am glad that Puigdemont did not win,” said the leader of the socialists of Castilla-La Mancha, the main critic of the PSOE against the Amnesty law and the agreements. with the Catalan independence movement.
His public reflections, however, have once again irritated the PSOE leadership. “I find it incomprehensible that Page says this, because you always have to know, when your team plays, what shirt you are wearing, and you are happy that your brand and your team achieve good results in the territories,” he responded. Huntsman.
“All socialists are happy when there is a regional president who wins the elections with the acronym of the PSOE,” Montero stressed, in reference to Page’s last electoral victory, which revalidated his absolute majority in Castilla-La Mancha despite the enormous loss of institutional power that the socialists suffered in the last municipal and regional elections on May 28. “And we all get upset when that is not the reality,” Ferraz’s deputy secretary general concluded, given the electoral fiasco of the socialist candidate in Galicia, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, last Sunday, when registering the worst historical result of the PSdeG, with only nine deputies in the Galician Parliament and barely 14% of the total vote.
It rains in the wet, because the leadership of the PSOE already came out against Page last January, when the president of La Mancha placed the party “on the outskirts of the Constitution” due to its negotiations with Junts on the Amnesty law, which were still stuck. . On that occasion, Montero herself harshly criticized Page, in her opinion, for seeking “notoriety based on internal disagreement.” “That’s not the way,” Montero then reprimanded Page. And the waters, it is clear, continue without calming down.
