The reactive movement of Pedro Sánchez on May 29, day after the socialist collapse in the municipal and regional, anticipating the general elections for July of that same year 2023, surprised the left without time to get rid of several candidacies. Podemos was integrated into forced marches and with many resistance in adding, before the pressing of an accelerated calendar that forced decisions without margin so that internal quarrels were imposed.
They were forced to leave Irene Montero along the way, a veto imposed by Díaz herself, which weighed too much and He ended up implosing the candidacy a few months later, with the integration of Podemos in the Mixed Group. This agglutinating movement is today a chimera and in the Executive they are fully aware that the departure of the Moncloa will be imposed by its left flank. They know it because in 2019 Sánchez played with the division on the right – in three, pp, citizens and vox – in their favor.
Then, he anticipated the general elections With the “Columbus photo” still alive in the voter retina And now, in full fratricidal war among its partners, the gallimaties of the left is one of the incentives for the president to remain firm in his vocation to move the polls as much as possible. The objective is precisely Give time for the space to “reorganice.” “In the current conditions we would lose power,” a high socialist leader resolves bluntlywhich considers “essential” that there is a unit candidacy to have some opportunity to reissue the current majority.
From the PSOE they try to push, prudence so that their appeals are not perceived as an internal interference, and appeal to their partners to overcome the “internal quitas” and seek a common front. «The enemy mistakes. The enemy is not next, it is in front and is the PP with Vox, ”they affect.
Although the spotlights usually point to together, Podemos is already the main destabilizing actor of the current legislature and who can evict Sánchez of Power in 2027. The influence it has on adding, who systematically forces to harden their positions to uncheck the PSOE, projects an image of internal conflict within the coalition – to account of the minimum wage, the budgets, the expense in defense, the reduction of the day …– that harms the Executive and that has to be forced to force an institutional conflict.
In contrast, Sanchez tries to insufflate political oxygen to the space of his coalition partneraware of the difficult electoral horizon to add. The President is serving Diaz those battles that he can win within the Government, with the reduction of the working day or, recently, with the minimum wage, sensitive matters linked to the work portfolio, which allow the second vice president to cultivate the only profile that has given him revenues, the one who plays in the Executive, after the Fiasco in the organic.
However, voices already begin to emerge in the socialist part that recognize that Diaz in front will not be possible integration of the left. “She is a brake,” they argue, even if it is the most identifiable face of the project. The concern is evident in Moncloa and increases as the differences are amplified. Since adding they have tried to bring positions in the closing of their assembly this weekend: “People are waiting for us, people want us to walk together.” But we can dispatch the pressure and ensure that “he is doing very well walking alone.” The dwellings believe that adding “is politically dead” and that Díaz represents the “cowardice” and the “malmenorism” of a “docile” left with the PSOE. In this context, socialists do not hide that the agreement is “almost impossible.”
The time comes, In the PSOE they do not hide that they will not hesitate to drop Diaz and launch a hostile OPA to their voters. If the horizon that is glimpsed makes a left -wing coalition impossible, the socialists will re -activate the machinery to monopolize the entire progressive ideological spectrum. An appeal to the “useful vote” that already operated in the European elections, when Sánchez played the contest in a melee with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and that served to electoralize his partners electorally, promoting the passage of Díaz in adding, after chaining several losses in the same semester.