Classical socialism rejects that the Government of Spain depends on "a fugitive from Justice": "It has to be radically discarded"

Classic socialism has raised its voice to express its frontal opposition to the possibility that Pedro Sánchez seek support for his re-election as president in Junts, the formation led by Carles Puigdemont. Its public representatives do not even want to consider that the “referee” of national politics becomes the person who called the illegal independence referendum in Catalonia and then fled to Belgium.

“It would be unheard of and distressingly surprising any Spanish Government that depended on a fugitive from Justice. This has to be radically scrapped. We cannot give this matter a letter of normality,” warned Nicolás Redondo Terreros, former leader of the PSOE in the Basque Country and spokesman for the Fernando de los Ríos collective, which brings together former ministers and former leaders from the time of Felipe González.. “That would indeed be an Iberian exception,” he added.

According to this internal socialist current, the reading that the scrutiny of the general elections has left is that the two majority parties must agree “to govern and reach pacts”. Although they do not go into assessing which formula they consider most appropriate to reach this consensus, they do point out that there is a “wide range” of possibilities that would not cause “restlessness, anxiety and restlessness”.

In this sense, from the Fernando de los Ríos collective they appeal to the spirit of the Transition, where “some came from the regime and others from prison” and even so “they had the ability to give up maximum objectives to achieve fundamental objectives, such as the democracy and freedom”: “We ask for it because it has already been done and it can be done again”.

“The margin of agreement so that Spain does not go to elections and does not depend on Puigdemont is very wide. Can it be a coalition government? Don't know. Can they be governance agreements? They may be. Can they be agreements that go beyond governance agreements and do not reach the coalition? It can be almost anything if they have the ability to renounce the most intimate and tribal interests,” Redondo Terreros has exposed.

And do you see it feasible for Sánchez to agree to any of these possibilities to come to an understanding with the PP and renounce the sum of the nationalist and pro-independence parties that have given him parliamentary support in this legislature? The answer is that the secretary general of the PSOE has emerged “strengthened” from passing through the polls and that he now has “an extraordinary opportunity to rise to the occasion” that Spain and his own formation require.

“Of course I see it clearly: in the situation in which he is tomorrow, I would meet with Mr. [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo without my apriorities and without his apriorities and I would talk with him at length. And I would get my party out of the polluting relationships it can have with parties like Puigdemont's,” the former Basque leader stressed.

The Fernando de los Ríos collective has exposed its analysis of 23-J in a press conference convened this Wednesday in Madrid in which the professor of Sociology José Antonio Díaz, in turn, has explained that Spanish politics has been once again articulated around the PP and the PSOE, which together gathered 60% of the votes on Sunday, and that “acting from the extremes would be a mistake for the future”. “The confrontational strategy feeds them,” he stressed.