The former president of Aragon and general secretary of the Aragonese PSOE, Javier Lambán, reveals in his memoir, “A political emotion”, that he has suffered from multiple sclerosis since 2010, as he announced yesterday in an interview with Heraldo de Aragón.
The socialist leader describes in his memoirs, which will be presented on April 18, his various health problems, from the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes to the detection of colon cancer in 2021 and another in the liver two and a half years later. , and reveals that he suffers from multiple sclerosis.
An illness that was diagnosed in June 2010 and that “overwhelmed him a lot,” he acknowledged in the interview, in which he said that he had three or four outbreaks at the beginning, but the treatment “has been so absolutely effective” that it has not returned. to have “any kind of problem.”
In his memoirs, Lambán reviews his career in the PSOE and the institutions and also his relationship and disagreements with the President of the Government and national leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez.
Discrepancies that, he assured, have nothing to do with personal animosity and that date back to the 2015 elections and the way the pacts are understood.
For Lambán, the PSOE is conditioned by its partners, and these alliances have “blurred” the party’s role as “guarantor of equality in Spain”, while the PP’s only project is to take power away from the PSOE, it lacks a reformist spirit. and he has as an ally Vox, which in his opinion is proving, especially in Aragon, to be “highly toxic.”
Given that the PP, for Lambán, is not willing to give up governing at any price and that the PSOE has made pacts that distance it from centrality, he demanded “a civic reaction” to force the big parties to assume their responsibility for State, and in that objective he considered that communities must stop lending themselves to being “simple puppets at the service of the strategy of national leaders and hatching great agreements.”
Regarding his succession as head of the Aragonese PSOE, Lambán preferred not to speak out for anyone, not even about the possibility of it being the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría. She opted for people very committed to the party who have always been “at the foot of the canyon in Aragon” and who have sacrificed themselves, and she did not clarify whether she meets those requirements.
