The PSOE responded with a resounding no to the pact offer made yesterday by the PP to enable the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Pedro Sánchez, the acting president of the Spanish government, responded live during his conversation with the PP candidate, and the socialist spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, made it official when he refused the conservative leader’s proposal to govern two years alone to then call elections.
The prolegomena of the appointment, which did not even reach 50 minutes, already anticipated that it would be a failure. And so it was for the PSOE, which makes a reading of the meeting that is summed up in the reaffirmation of the deep mistrust and discomfort towards the Popular Party.
One of the first concepts transmitted by Sánchez, in fact, was a reproach. A harsh criticism for the “lack of respect” that the management of Génova is showing towards the socialist formation. Especially some of its spokespeople, due to the repeated appeals to the transfuguism of some PSOE deputies to enable an investiture for which Feijóo does not have the accounts. According to sources from Ferraz, the leader of the PP responded by distancing himself from the situation, which is why Alegría later publicly demanded that he “amend” his first swords.
With regard to the six State pacts proposed by the PP, Alegría showed the manifest mistrust of the PSOE and recalled that “to give credibility to its proposals, the first thing is to comply with the most sacred, the Constitution”, making al· hope for the 1,727 days that the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has been blocked because “that’s what Feijóo has decided”.
And then he turned to the newspaper library to remember that “the great agreements of the PP and the PSOE that have always existed with the Socialist Party in opposition. Or with the PP in government, if that is better understood”, he stated.
On the list of suspicions of the socialists is also what happened during the processing of the labor reform in which the PP attracted two defectors such as Sergio Sayas and Carlos García Adanero, who, after they broke the voting discipline of their then party (UPN), Genoa has supported the Congress of Deputies.
The same goes for the calls to respect the most voted list, considering that the PP has recently skipped this doctrine to get several regional presidencies and town councils.
In Ferraz, the headquarters of the Socialists, they understand that the leader of the Popular is making a “wrong reading” of the results of 23-J. And, therefore, they do not want to be the ones who fall for the provocation and commit again in their turn the mistake of giving way to the PP, as it happened in 2016 in a process that resulted in an internal crisis that caused serious structural damage to the PSOE, even leading to the return of Pedro Sánchez to the leadership.
With the explanations, live and delayed, the PSOE gives its participation in the Feijóo process to try to be invested, and understands that it leaves its position more than fixed. It will be waiting from the sidelines to see what happens to those who still have 27 days to go. Almost a month that, assuming that it will culminate in a failed coup, Ferraz sources predict that it will take more than a long time for the leader of the opposition who, they point out, “only wants his political survival, as has become clear when he went from wanting to repeal Sanchism to praying that Sanchism save his skin”.
