“It is clear that we would like there to be less noise”, admitted Minister Pilar Alegría yesterday, as spokesperson for the PSOE executive and electoral committee. He thus criticized, once again, the strategy of Unides Podemos to blow up the discrepancies within the Government coalition, to put pressure on the socialists in the various ongoing negotiations and to gain visibility before the imminent new electoral cycle.
But the two souls of the Executive are doomed to understand each other until the end of the legislature. And further, since the PSOE assumes that re-editing a progressive coalition will be the only alternative for Pedro Sánchez to win re-election after the next general elections and avoid the change in the political cycle that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is promoting at the head of the PP. With the only possible alliance, according to the socialists, of the extreme right of Vox.
The first coalition Government of democracy will not be broken, they underline, so that the PSOE are resigned to fit the “provocations” they attribute to the purple formation, to preserve its possible reissue. Alegría insisted yesterday that these are two different political parties, with two very different political cultures, and that the PSOE’s is based on “prudence, silence and rigor”, so as not to wash the dirty laundry of the coalition in public and in prime time. “This is our way of doing politics”, he alleged. Prudence and discretion, therefore, in the face of an increase in UP decibels that the minister insisted on framing in the current pre-electoral context.
The clash between the PSOE and Unides Podemos over the reform of the only yes is yes law marked, however, the peak of the confrontation between the two formations. And, despite the recent agreement on the reform of pensions, the internal struggle for the new housing law and for the reform of the so-called gag law of the PP is still pending resolution. Alegría insisted on seeing “very close” the agreement on the first, while he assured that “we have never lost hope” to seal an agreement on the second. But he again demanded from UP “to be respectful, very cautious and let work”, to continue taking steps in a legislative agenda that already managed to approve more than 200 joint initiatives in this legislature.
In addition to Podemos lowering the decibels of the internal confrontation, Alegría also called for unity in the political space that is forged to the left of the PSOE. The minister thus came to welcome the electoral platform that vice-president Yolanda Díaz plans to present soon, in the run-up to the general elections, despite the fact that she is also fighting a tough battle with Podemos. “The unity of progressive movements and parties is always very positive,” he said.
Alegría guaranteed that the PSOE faces the next electoral campaigns “with winning expectations”. But the socialists are clear that, without unity in the political space to their left, there will be no option of re-editing a progressive government.
