The PSOE bleeds by the wound | Spain

« The UCO report does not correspond to the person who is my friend. » « I have gone from disbelief to disappointment, outrage and anger. » « I am broken and desolate, I leave my life in the game for this. I am ashamed to go out. » « The image of Santos (Cerdán) does not go from my head on Thursday in Congress, gestures to PP deputies to see if they dared to call him corrupt in the street. Fuck, that I defended him there until Wednesday! » The testimonies, of President Navarra María Chivite, the general secretary of the PSOE in Castilla y León, Carlos Martínez – in theory, the first socialist leader who will measure at the beginning of 2026 the citizen response at the polls to the corruption scandal, If there are no general elections before– And of two national deputies reflect the shock of so many paintings that trusted, including Pedro Sánchez and the entire dome of the PSOE, in the word of former number three of the party when he denied any link with the alleged corrupted triangle that José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García completed.

Blind faith in Cerdán has given way to the fatality and accelerated impression of a cycle end, while the new batches of recordings and audios reveal alleged bites in exchange for public contracts and soece and embarrassing conversations for a party that, from the Federal Congress of Valencia in October 2021, It is defined as feminist in its statutes. Three months before, Sánchez had ceased Ábalos as Minister of Transportation and Cerdán replaced him as the new secretary of Organization.

The panic that devours now to the PSOE is that Cerdán emulates Ábalos and does not deliver, against what he had promised, the deputy act. The Navarro says he will do it on Monday. If he does not, he would be expelled to the Mixed Group, where he would make room Ábalos, of what was his second in Ferraz for four years. « It would be a devastating image, » trembles a minister. « Now the slowness with which the open expulsion file has been opened in February 2024 to Ábalos (after the arrest of Koldo García) is explained. What guarantees or what stories! He depended on the organization, that is, on Santos, to make that decision before it was sent to pronounce the commission of ethics and guarantees, which is the one that has the last word, »

Sanchez has been held over the weekend at the Toledo Finca of Quintos de Mora to meditate what the reaction to a cluster bomb that has burst the speech that the PSOE suffered a judicial hunt, finding the other fronts of the president’s family in the courts with the suspicion of the doubt. The moral of the militancy is on the floor, while Ferraz did not give this Saturday signs of life despite the graffiti and harassment of venues in Seville, Coslada (Madrid), Valencia, Burgos or Cuenca. « The game is dead, paralyzed waiting for Pedro, » says a plumber of the old guard. The general secretary of the PSOE, who does not have a courier group with the territorial leaders, had not spoken this Saturday with any of the barons consulted by this newspaper, were Seniors or first.

« Pedro is only contributing to the nervousness progressing. The flight forward only helps to do more damage to the party. He has to assume consequences, convene elections and assume the result, » says a secretary general who does not see another solution to a crisis that directly indicates Sánchez, for being the one who chose Ábalos and Cerdán to manage the party. « Santos became the interlocutor for everything.

Another fear that travels to the PSOE is that there is illegal financing. « It would be devastating, infinitely more serious, I hope it is a thing of a pair of golfs, although with a lot of prestige, » he wants one of the most powerful provincial secretaries. Sanchez announced an external audit on Thursday of the PSOE accounts to dissipate the suspicions of illegal financing.

The PSOE leader did not appear in Ferraz since May 2018, when the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy was announced. Since then he had not met the press at the headquarters of the main government party. It may seem an anecdote, but the generalized opinion in the party is that it shows to what extent Sanchez has disregarded the PSOE. Another gesture that caught the attention occurred in the Federal Congress of late last year in Seville. On Saturday night, with the new executive to close, Sánchez left shortly after eleven o’clock at night. The future direction, to which the president says that he will undergo a deep restructuring with which he hopes to calm the internal waters, closed after two in the morning. The president delegated his preparation in Cerdán, who had prepared a previous list of his members. Sanchez also also attended the Federal Congress on Friday, although he was the first of the three days of the quintessential event of the Socialists. That Friday Cerdán denied El País that the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, was going to incorporate into the PSOE dome as new responsible for equality. Finally it was like that.

The absolute power that Sanchez conferred in Seville even more empowered Cerdán. Although he arrived indicated for having taken Ferraz to Koldo García, where he entered as the driver of Ábalos before mediating in the Ministry of Transport, the president revalidated him to the party’s commands. No one chisto and, if he did, it was discreetly. The majority applauded him in Seville when he took the stage to occupy his chair of the PSOE organization. Neither more nor less than, again, like number three of a party that began in its 41st Congress a process of tuning to renew a good part of the regional, provincial and local secretaries. The PSOE prepared for the next electoral cycle, not for a catastrophe that Sánchez did not see or did not want to see, clinging to the mantra of the persecution of the political and judicial right.

The PSOE is now a party with the shattered mood, which again wounds and ask « what happened to us », when the expected thing was to go on the offensive to recover the lost territorial power two years ago. A PSOE that, after seven years of government, recognizes in private that « there is no game. » « Pedro forgot about the game, considered it an instrument and trusted him for seven years first to José Luis and then Santos. That neglect has put us in this fire, » complains a Sanchista Black leg.

Meanwhile, Emiliano García-Page keeps silent. The president of Castilla-La Mancha He was the first in the PSOE to ask for the advance of the general elections to save the candidates for mayors and regional governments avoid the « slaps of national policy. » « It’s time for others to talk. There have been times when we felt very alone, » they indicate in their surroundings. « Page said what we are increasingly thought of, » says a member of the Federal Directorate.