The former Vice President of the Government, Alfonso Guerra, assures in an article in The Objective that the political atmosphere plays against the Socialists due to the distrust that exists with Pedro Sánchez, of whom he has assured that he makes all decisions personally and considers that ” Perhaps the time has come for the Socialists to ask themselves if the candidate is not the problem”.
According to Alfonso Guerra, the day everything went wrong was when Pedro Sánchez hugged Pablo Iglesias Turrión. That day, he assures him, “the political death certificate of thousands of socialist political leaders was signed.”
A pact, he argues, that meant a brutal change in the tradition and thought of the PSOE for abandoning the liberal socialism that permeated the action of the PSOE for 140 years to replace it with an “alliance of radicals, populists, independentistas and heirs of terror”.
Alfonso Guerra admits that the reaction of the President of the Government, after the Socialist defeat last Sunday, has been a surprise for almost everyone and could only be foreseen “if it is clear that all the President’s movements originate from an internal party key, because he knows that if he loses power in the party, he loses everything”.
In this sense, he points out that Sánchez understood that after the defeat of many candidates with good management, eyes would be directed at him for having turned the campaign into a test of his ability to solve the problems that his policy of alliances had generated. So by calling elections, he would force disgruntled militants and leaders to “pretend their support for the secretary general, whose campaign strategy has just been defeated.” “Skill and cunning cannot be denied,” he exclaims.
However, the historic socialist leader believes that the “political atmosphere” works against the socialists, because there is distrust not of the PSOE, but of its general secretary as head of government.
Even so, he believes that a good campaign could change the forecasts -because he remembers that defeat is not so much due to the number of votes obtained- but that would have to imply a certain degree of rectification of the strategy that has led to the defeat of the socialists.
However, he points out that what Sánchez announced yesterday is the “persistence in error”, grouping the failed partners again to “stop a new ultra-right government.” In his opinion, the campaign will be of little use to the interests of the Socialists and points out that “perhaps the time has come for the Socialists to ask themselves whether the candidate is not the problem.”
In addition, it concludes that the “abnormal news” that the election of the new NATO Secretary General will be delayed until after July 23, the day of the elections in Spain, “indicates that all decisions are made on a personal basis.”
