Pedro Sanchez wants to do it again. He doesn’t just say it in public and in private. The polls will tell if he succeeds or not. But he has been giving plenty of clues about it for days. Last week he published a video on TikTok sitting in his office in Moncloa, where he displays, framed, a vignette by the Granada artist Jorge Jiménez in which he himself stars: a defeated man who, little by little, is getting back on his feet. Next to the illustration appears the phrase: “Yup, that’s right, he’s going to do it again,” And, at the end, a “VOTE” adorned by a cocky, almost sardonic smile.
The truth is that the President of the Government neutralized last Thursday any internal movement in his party aimed at opening the melon of his succession to Ferraz’s leadership. The promotion of the Minister of Economy, Carlos Bodyto the position of first vice president, has sent a powerful signal to the bases of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party.
The future of “sanchismo” is Sánchez himself. At least, for now. Government sources consulted by LA RAZÓN grant this newspaper that the head of the Executive “he wants to emulate Felipe González”who served as president of the Council of Ministers for 14 years.
González, who was seen last Friday with the Andalusian president, the popular Juanma Morenoin the middle of the pre-campaign for the Andalusian elections, has joked about it from time to time and has reminded Sánchez that more than ten years “is too much.”
Sánchez does not give a single stitch: he has ensured that he is the only reference for the PSOE
Sánchez is not used to stitching without a thread. The departure of the Government of Maria Jesus Monterostill “number two” of the PSOE, to be a candidate in Andalusia has cleared the way for Pedro Sánchez to be the only reference of the party.
The enthronement of Corps, without ascendancy within the party – he does not have a membership card – allows the president to have a “number two” in Moncloa who, apparently, lacks incentives to challenge him for leadership in an organization whose bases, which are those that elect the general secretary, “they are radicalized”.
However, in truth, within the PSOE there is a sector that sees in Carlos Corps “the sensible alternative”, after Sánchez’s journey, that the party needs to return to centered social democracy. The hard core of the Executive is committed to helping Sánchez achieve the umpteenth resurrection of his political life.
Everyone in the Government knows that, for now, it is not time to talk about a PSOE without Sánchez. The socialists assume that their leader will want to stayEven if you have to move in 2027. «His obsession is not to call the elections.
The socialists ask Sánchez to call general elections before 2027
His people have told him to press the button with the Andalusians. And he didn’t want to. And now they tell him to do it with the Catalans, if Illa finally summons them, in the fall. But he is still stuck on the no,” concedes a socialist who is aware of the internal discussions in the party. Even so, not everyone in the party believes he is capable of achieving it..
«It’s impossible. These are the death rattles. But there is no more. Spain has turned to the right and it was their fault. Their biggest mistake was handing control of the feminist agenda to Podemos,” concedes a former socialist regional president.
But Sánchez only wants at his side those who are willing to work to keep him in the most important office in the country. Meanwhile, the socialists consulted admit that if there are two men who have taken note of Sánchez’s movement in Moncloa, they are the ministers Félix Bolaños and Óscar Puente.
Both are building an internal reference profile thanks to the Council of Ministers. Bolaños, who has great power, and Puente, who sweeps the militants, are seen in their party as key men for the party’s future. «They will undoubtedly have a lot to say when the time comes.. But they know that it has not arrived and that it will take time to arrive, because the president wants to continue until the end of the decade,” says a government source. The PSOE assumes that its leader is going to make another push and that all the machinery is focused on Moncloa.
The regional cycle has been harmful to the acronyms of the fist and the rose. The polls in Extremadura, Aragón and Castilla y León have spoken loud and clear: the wave of the right is unstoppable. And it is about to arrive in Andalusia, where the vote will be held on May 17.
The president warms up the campaign with the “No to war” that he waved again yesterday as an electoral flag in a letter to the militancy that sees him as the only reference for the left in Spain. It matters little that he is incapable of approving, a priori, some Budgets.