Sanchez wins time to rearm the majority and move away the pressure of electoral advance | Spain

Once again, even in his worst crisis, the one that directly affects him already his credibility by having chosen two organization secretaries who have ended up involved in serious cases of corruptionPedro Sánchez is committed to resistance at all costs. The PSOE leader was a completely different politician on Monday from the one who also appeared at the Ferraz headquarters on Thursday. If then it was sunk, knocked, dressed in funeral, and apologized up to eight times, This Monday has offered an almost opposite, challenging image, to the offensive, which encourages the PP to present a motion of censure or critics of their party to go to the Federal Committee of July 5 to stand up.

Sanchez this time avoided self -criticism – even said that his administration is « one of the cleanest in the democratic history of Spain » – and did not announce great novelties, beyond a kind of temporary manager of the Ministry of Organization, Epicenter of the crisis, until the federal committee of July 5 – with Cristina Narbonne, president of the party; Montse Mínguez, deputy of the PSC; Borja Cabezón, member of the Federal Executive; and Ana María Fuentes, the current party manager, who is still in the dome – an appearance in Congress – which will be on July 9, after that key committee – and an investigation commission. Very slight measures for the seriousness of the crisis, according to the rapid interpretation of several of the parliamentary partners.

The leader, according to several leaders consulted, is won time to try to reorganize his party but above all to try to understand what other bombs can have The UCO in Koldo García’s recordings. In fact, Sánchez and his team have so far demonstrated that they are completely blind despite being in the government and everything that goes out on the unsuspecting. Also to rebuild the majority and test if their partners endure because nobody wants elections, which is the main hypothesis with which they work in the president’s environment.

Sanchez also won time to make a round with all the partners, which began this Monday with the second vice president and leader of Add, Yolanda Díaz, and who will continue with all the other groups of the majority. The president was willing to accept all the measures they propose. This is: at the moment he does not announce more things, but he is willing to agree them with his partners in exchange for supporting him and avoiding « delivering power to the right and the ultra -right. » That is still the great glue of the majority, the fear of the arrival of the PP and Vox to the Moncloa, and Sánchez seems to want to exploit it to the fullest. But the president opens the door to more measures because the partners are claiming him more and need something that justifies to continue supporting a government with a very serious corruption scandal while the PP is pressing them so that they do not.

The government believes that the partners will support him because they do not want elections. But for now there are fissures. Can He does not even agree to join Sánchez’s round and practically say that the PP and the PSOE are the same because, according to them, both games are corrupt.

Add, the first to meet with Sánchez, puts his conditions to continue. First, there are guarantees that this case does not affect the PSOE as a whole in illegal financing mode. Sanchez argues that the UCO report does not point to that and is convinced that there is no, because a recent audit has been made, but will do another and try to find out what may be. And then, that the social agenda is expedited, which ends the aforements and that pending regeneration measures are approved.

Díaz also claimed that not all matches are the same. « We have five clean minister and we have never had a case of corruption, » he claims. « We are in the government to end corruption and to promote a social advance that people deserve. » « The PSOE cannot do as if nothing had happened, because what has happened is very serious and demands to remove corruption and govern with decency for the majority of this country, » Diaz finished. This Tuesday Sanchez will continue the round of meetings with spokesmen, in the morning with Junts and in the afternoon with ERC.

Only four days have passed since the devastating UCO report against Santos Cerdán, and in the middle of a weekend of confinement in quintos de Mora, the state farm where the presidents usually withdraw to strategic meetings, but that time has served Sánchez, apparently, to reinforce the fundamental decisions that the first day made: neither resignation, nor electoral advancement, nor a motion of confidence, nor a motion of confidence.

But now it has also shaped that resistance and tries to reconnect with the progressive electorate, so in shock as PSOE himself for a very serious corruption scandal for which Sanchez still has no explanation. And the formula he has chosen is the usual: the block confrontation. Sanchez asks the progressives to continue supporting him because if the PP and Vox will not arrive, the agglutinating element he managed to continue in the Moncloa thanks to an extraordinary mobilization of the left in July 2023. That was the successful argument in 2023, and appeals again to him at its lowest time, in which for the first time he puts his political survival in a matter of a time. Sanchez still does not answer the question that the press asked him: what has failed? « Two people failed, » he says by Ábalos and Cerdán. But he does not explain how it is possible that he did not find out about anything and maintain until the last minute his confidence in Cerdán.

In the absence of details about what has been able to happen in the PSOE, Sánchez is committed to what he has always considered the best defense: the attack. And he turns against the PP and Vox, who challenges a motion of censure « if they are so convinced that the government has lost the majority. »

But above all it appeals to the progressives to support him despite everything because the alternative is worse. Sanchez changes the tone and even speaks of « supposed corruption. » « We are not going to allow the alleged corruption of a few, which will have to be substantiated, in this case, in the courts, the integrity of one of the cleanest public administrations in the democratic history of our country is echoed. We will not allow you to lie to the largest progressive government that is still standing in the EU, » he insisted. Sánchez rules out any background movement, but above all the most important, the call for elections. In fact, all their movements seem designed to avoid them, although it will still have to do what support between the partners and what it has to do to guarantee it. « The elections are every four years, so it has been and so it will continue to be. And we are not going to break the stability of a great country such as Spain, which lives one of its best moments of the last decades to put them in the hands of the worst opposition that our democratic history has had in our country in the hands of Feijóo and Abascal, » he insisted. That is, he will continue, at whatever it costs, and believes to have control of the PSOE to do so, but a single game is not enough. He needs all his partners, and that is where the battle is going to take himself in the next few days while the tense waiting to know what the UCO has in hand.