Two new political parties will debut in the European elections on June 9. Both are going to be formally established in the first quarter of the year, neither currently has a definitive name to stamp on the ballot and they still share a third characteristic, the most significant: they are simultaneously trying to capture the vote of socialists dissatisfied with the concessions to independentists and sovereigntists that Pedro Sánchez has made in order to be re-elected as president of the Government.

Here are the coincidences. One of those budding candidates is promoted by former Ciudadanos deputy Edmundo Bal through the Nexo platform that he created in September along with other former colleagues such as Francisco Igea, who has already unsubscribed.. Trying to distance himself from the comparison with the orange formation, the State lawyer reinstated to his position after his departure from Congress ideologically defines this project as “centered, not center”, and “transversal”, since it aims to cover “from the right of the PSOE to the left of the PP”.

The other party in contention will be founded from the think tank El Jacobino, which began to take shape three and a half years ago to cover “an orphan space, very clearly, which is that of those abandoned by a left that has moved towards identity axes.”. Its spokesman, Guillermo del Valle, considers that there is now “a niche of dissatisfied socialists” who, although they may have “some difference in nuance,” will feel identified with “the only alternative” to “the intolerable degradation of the rule of law that they represent.” the pacts” signed for the reissue of the coalition Government.

The representatives of these two new currents coincided on December 12 at the presentation of No me resigno, the book that Nicolás Redondo Terreros was still writing when in September he was informed of his expulsion from the group to which he had been affiliated for decades for his public criticism of the most controversial measures adopted by Sánchez, such as the amnesty for those prosecuted for the illegal independence referendum in Catalonia. “I rebel because I believe that the political and ideological tradition of the best PSOE has to be recovered; if possible, in the PSOE, if not possible, let those who have to do it do it,” the former Basque leader concluded his intervention. slipping for the first time the possibility of giving support to other acronyms.

Redondo Terreros is one of the greatest exponents of the Fernando de los Ríos collective, formed by former socialist officials who already questioned the alliances with Podemos in the last legislature and who after 23-J even asked the general secretary of their party to reach some agreement with the PP to not have to depend on groups like Junts, ERC and EH Bildu. Former ministers from the governments of Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero such as José Luis Corcuera, José Barrionuevo, Javier Sáenz de Cosculluela and César Antonio have regularly attended the events to analyze the political situation that have been convened in recent months in Madrid. Molina, in addition to the former leader of UGT Cándido Méndez.

Bal has also sat in the front row of these debate forums lately, who trusts that the representatives of the classic PSOE who look with “interest” at his project can channel their discontent through him in the next appointment with the polls.. In conversation with this newspaper, he also indicates that his platform has maintained contacts with El Jacobino, from which “significant ideological differences” separate him, and that for now they have not reached any agreement to appear together, although he does not rule it out either.

“We do not believe that it is intelligent to reproduce a Ciudadanos 2.0 that was born as a center-left party in Catalonia, but that in its national expansion blurred that,” Del Valle, however, de facto closes that possibility of concentrating a useful vote. against bipartisanship. “They are looking for a very legitimate strategy, which we obviously do not share, of replacing the PP. If from the beginning you are born saying neither right nor left, confusion will be generated. Strategically that is what Pedro Sánchez wants. “It's a colossal starting mistake,” he adds.

1,752,000 repentants

According to a survey carried out by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO, only four and a half months after the last general elections, 22.4% of voters who put the PSOE ballot in the ballot box would change that decision if they could. The party based on Ferraz Street in Madrid concentrates the largest number of repentants -1,752,000- behind those who on June 23 gave their trust to Vox (14.9%), Sumar (12.6%) and the popular (9%).

Those who have definitively lost confidence in Sánchez will have two new options for the Europeans. That of the Nexo platform, which has yet to submit the decision to become a party to its more than 500 associates, presents itself with “a very pragmatic speech” based on “reforms” and “the ability to agree with one another and with others” that will also defend “a strong Welfare State” and “unquestionable” civil rights such as abortion and euthanasia.

In the case of El Jacobino, which has already made the decision to present itself in the absence of looking for a name that “appeals less to history and to something so conceptual”, its main programmatic difference with the PSOE lies in the territorial model.. The approach of the promoters of this laboratory of ideas to which Igea has now joined is that a reorganization must be carried out so that a series of powers – Education, Health, Taxation, Security… – are recovered by the central Government now. who consider that “the Confederal State is synonymous with growing inequalities.”

The Houthi rebels of Yemen have positively appreciated that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has ruled out supporting Operation Prosperity Guardian promoted by the United States to create an alliance of countries that guarantee free navigation in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

This was stated in a message through the social network

“We highly value Spain's refusal to be carried away by American and British lies regarding maritime navigation,” Al-Ezzi stressed.

“Sana'a respects all those who respect the facts and hopes that these rational positions continue and expand,” added the Houthi leader, whose movement in recent weeks has attacked ships with alleged Israeli interests with missiles and drones in retaliation for the offensive. about Gaza.

The Houthi leader concluded that “he also hopes that all (countries) continue to distance themselves from the shameful positions of the United States and the United Kingdom that threaten peace and security.”

It is worth remembering that Operation Guardian of Prosperity was announced last Monday by the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who in a statement stated that Spain would integrate it with the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Seychelles.

The Government of Pedro Sánchez has distanced itself from the aforementioned alliance so as not to upset Sumar and advocates that the EU create a new mission that cooperates with the United States initiative, while Spain asks to maintain Operation Atalanta against the piracy in the Indian Ocean, which he currently leads.

Also on Twitter, the president of the Houthi Revolutionary Committee, Mohamed Ali al Houtí, stated this Sunday that “the departure of some countries that the US had previously included in the international coalition confirms the failure of the alliance” and that “the countries that declined participating put their own interests before the coalition.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has sent a message to the international community to deploy all necessary efforts to stop “immediately” the “unbearable and unacceptable suffering” of civilians in Gaza that, since last October 7, , when Hamas launched a massive terrorist attack against Israel, suffer the consequences of the Israeli armed response that has already claimed several tens of thousands of Palestinian lives.

“Recently, the conflict in Gaza has shocked our lives, our consciences, and those of the entire international community.. On October 7, the terrorist group Hamas committed one of the cruelest terrorist attacks in recent history, whose response by the Government of Israel is causing unbearable, unacceptable suffering among the civilian population that the international community must stop immediately. “, has manifested.

Sánchez made this call in the traditional videoconference held by the Presidents of the Government with the troops stationed abroad on the occasion of Christmas.. On this occasion, the message has been preceded by the president's decision to exclude Spain from the international mission -Operation Guardian of Prosperity- that will integrate the US and the countries of the European Union to protect the traffic of goods from the attack of the Houthis. on his route through the Red Sea.

Initially, Spain voted against the proposal that implied expanding Operation Atalanta against piracy led by Spain with a ship to convert it, in fact, with the participation of the rest of the countries in the protection operation in the Red Sea. The Spanish refusal meant vetoing the mission. Finally, Spain will not prevent the international mission, but it will not participate in it.

Sánchez's surprising decision has, among its reasons, the express refusal of his minority partner in the Government, Sumar, as well as a good part of his parliamentary allies, to be part of an operation that aims to protect commercial traffic and therefore both economic interests, while in Gaza the population suffers from Israeli bombings without the international community forcing Israel to stop the attacks.

Spain's participation in Operation Guardian of Prosperity would require a vote in favor of Congress, something that Sánchez could only achieve with the support of the PP and cracking the cohesion of the bloc of pro-independence and radical left forces that support him in the Chamber. .

In the videoconference with the troops stationed abroad, the President of the Government, accompanied by the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the Chief of the Defense Staff, Teodoro López, thanked and congratulated the soldiers of the different missions for the work they do in favor of “world stability and peace” and has made special mention of the United Nations mission in Lebanon, led by Spain, and which suffers “the harsh conditions caused by attacks in this area” between Hezbollah militias and the Israeli Army.

Sánchez has also referred to the conflict in Ukraine which, he said, affects the daily life of Spaniards in a very important way, alluding to the negative consequences it has for the country's economy.

The president has highlighted the “good work” of the 3,000 soldiers deployed in different operations and missions outside Spain, whether under the flag of the United Nations, the European Union or NATO, and has paid tribute to the 175 men and women who have Throughout 34 years of missions abroad they have “given their lives for international peace and stability.”