The crisis of the lists definitely dynamites the bridges between Page and Lambán with Ferraz

Neither Emiliano García-Page nor Javier Lambán have attended the Federal Committee of the PSOE this Saturday, a meeting of special importance for the party because it was the first after its debacle in the municipal and regional elections and also the take-off ramp towards the general ones. The interference of the national leadership in the lists of candidates for Congress and the Senate prepared by Castilla-La Mancha and Aragón for the new appointment with the polls has been the spigot that has ended up shattering the relationship between the two barons most critical of the Government of Pedro Sánchez and Ferraz without waiting for the result of the scrutiny of July 23.

“Things are said here”, warned the president and general secretary of the Socialists during his speech behind closed doors in the highest body between congresses -of which around 300 members are a part-, implicitly alluding to the two absent regional leaders. Among the twenty participants who have taken the floor, other “capons” have also been given to the comrades in the ranks who mark the greatest distance from the official line at a time when the message that is repeated almost like a mantra both in public and in private is that they need to stick together.

Along the same lines, the acting president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, has expressed himself in the Federal Committee, despite the fact that he is another of the barons upset with the retouching of the lists that the PSOE leadership has made and that it will be evicted from the Government that he has led for eight years by the sum of forces of PP and Vox, although the 28-M obtained 54,000 more votes than in 2019. All the sources consulted by this newspaper agree on the “elegance” of his speech within the “discrepancies” he maintains with the party leadership.

The only internal criticism that has been heard in the socialist conclave has been that of the general secretary in Castilla y León, Luis Tudanca, who has said he felt “outraged”, “let down” and “enormously disappointed” by the imposition of Ferraz de the heads of list to the Senate for Valladolid and to the Congress for Ávila. Even so, he has assured that he abides by the decision and has joined the general closing of ranks, committing to “leave his skin” so that Sánchez obtains the greatest possible support at the polls.

“Let's hope that this time the entire party and its leaders are united like a pineapple and nobody puts their particular electoral interests before those of the organization and nobody lends themselves to being the useful fool of the right,” Milagros Tolón, mayor, had previously slipped de Toledo in office and president of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, also in veiled reference to Page and Lambán. This public intervention has set the tone for the messages that have been delivered afterwards without an open signal.

In Ferraz another absence has not gone unnoticed, that of Adrián Barbón, president of Asturias and the only socialist leader besides that of Castilla-La Mancha who will be able to continue at the head of the regional government with majority parliamentary support. In his team, which has excused its attendance due to the invitation to a wedding, they emphasize that there is “no disagreement” and that they have sent a delegation representing their federation of which Adriana Lastra, former deputy secretary general of the party, has not been a part , a detail that has not been ignored in Madrid either.

discrepancies

Page's discrepancy for the lists has been produced by Ferraz's attempt to displace his right hand, Sergio Gutiérrez, as number one in Congress for Toledo to place Milagros Tolón, close to Sánchez. The only baron with an absolute majority managed to avoid this movement, but not that the national leadership finally included the name of the still mayoress on the ballot as number two.

The Aragonese socialists, in turn, have revolted over the inclusion of Susana Sumelzo – a member of the Federal Executive – in the Zaragoza candidacy after they had already complied with putting the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, at the head against at your discretion. “We deeply regret this decision that is going to produce, with all certainty, deep discouragement among the militants a few weeks before the elections,” they maintain in Lambán's party.

In the socialist leadership they insist that the territories send “proposals” for names and that the national Lists Commission “always” makes the changes it deems appropriate. Despite the discomfort of the affected communities, the candidacies of 23-J have been approved unanimously in the Federal Committee this Saturday.