“Now, unity, we must win an election”, demanded a veteran at the gates of Ferraz before the start of the PSOE’s federal committee which signed Pedro Sánchez’s speech yesterday, ratified the 28-M lists and went approve the regional framework. More than three hours later, after a meeting to close ranks, several territorial leaders assumed the mandate: “Government action must be exhibited”. In addition to the management of the same regional presidents and socialist mayors who are now running for re-election.
Thus, Sánchez wielded his government action, with social advances and civil rights that he called to defend in the campaign. Just three days before the debate on Vox’s censure motion starts, he drew an Alberto Núñez Feijóo submitted to the ultra-right. “Why do they have this desperation to put an end to the legislature, why is there so much impatience? They are nervous because there is a Government that governs for the majority and does not bow down to the powerful”, replied Sánchez to the claim of the PP and Vox to turn their management upside down.
And he guaranteed “social peace” during his mandate, after a labor and pension reform, for the first time, without a general strike like those suffered by Rajoy, Zapatero, Aznar and Felipe González. Some leader encouraged us to look, by way of contrast, at the fire that is growing in France because of Macron’s pension reform.
The absence of the presidents most critical of Sánchez, such as Emiliano García-Page from Castilla-Manche and Javier Lambán from Aragon, contributed to the tranquility with which the conclave proceeded. However, another territorial leader justified the fact that no critical statements were recorded during the federal committee because both the de-escalation of the political conflict in Catalonia and the reform of the yes-only law, ordered by Sánchez despite the opposition of United Podemos, they are like oil in a lamp for the electoral expectations of the PSOE, and in turn they add impetus to the offensives deployed by the PP and Vox.
In fact, among the twenty leaders who took the floor in front of Sánchez, only the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, alluded to Catalonia. To celebrate the detente policy promoted by the Prime Minister. Only the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, referred to Tito Berni’s scandal to defend the PSOE’s quick reaction at the time of expelling him and demanding his seat in the face of the PP’s inaction to other cases of corruption. And only the vice-president of Cantabria, Pablo Zuloaga, addressed the controversial reductions in sentences for sexual offenders with the law of only yes is yes, to congratulate Sánchez for promoting the correction of this rule.
Neither did anyone criticize Podemos, nor did they demand the breakup of the coalition Government. Not surprisingly, the re-election of several socialist presidents depends on the purple formation not collapsing on 28-M.
