Free version of the reminder event of Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, last Tuesday at the Madrid Student Residence: the landing of the Government of Pedro Sánchez turned the delivery of the Rojana prize to Paca Sauquillo into a great act of simulation.
A less malicious and more positive version would interpret the calm reunion of the Sanchista nomenclature with the old guard of the PSOE as a demand of party patriotism on the eve of decisive general elections..
both are worth. Let's see:
It was the third edition of the prize granted by the Felipe González Foundation, with institutional representation not registered in the two previous editions. The absence of the President of the Government and leader of the PSOE, claimed by an economic newspaper that was celebrating its anniversary, was compensated by the presence of five ministers (Bolaños, Marlaska, Ribera, Robles, Rodríguez), as well as by that of Sánchez's men in the Moncloa engine room (Óscar López and Antonio Hernando) and Parliament (Patxi López), who alternated without going into details with figures from previous stages (Felipe González, Almunia, Elena Valenciano, Guerrero, Eguiagaray, Lissavetzky…).
In other words, the landing deactivated the malaise of the old guard in the face of a confused and disoriented PSOE and the party was held in peace. He planned the “party culture”, expressly invoked in his speeches by Gregorio Martínez (Goyo, a close collaborator of Rubalcaba) and by Paca Sauquillo, in his words of acceptance of the award. Nor were there reproaches in the mouth of Javier Lambán, buried by a swarm of cameras and microphones. Only one sense I sing to the history of the PSOE as a party imbricated in society and essential in the future of the country.
Looking at the Aragonese socialist leader, it was commented in the crowd that Rubalcaba's pacifying spirit had more convening capacity than the Federal Committee of the weekend. And some former adviser to Felipe González said that he saw the color of the PSOE as “dark grey” for the July polls..
But from the rostrum, the aforementioned Gregorio Martínez attacked those who fall into the temptation of using the figure of Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba against his own party, because in life he would never have tolerated it.. Paca Sauquillo called for the closing of ranks so that the PSOE wins the elections again. And Joan Manuel Serrat, who presented the award as winner of the previous year, recommended that the current leaders use Rubalcaba's videos before making decisions.
It was inevitable that the pre-election dynamics slipped into the conversations at the end of the act. With up-to-the-minute review and current results. After having listened to Goyo and Paca, a constant surfaced: more PSOE and less Sánchez. It was a derivative in the comments about the prominence given to the vice president Nadia Calviño, who is neither PSOE nor is she on the 23-J lists.
The location of the “nobody” of the PP to be measured with Nadia de Sánchez in economic matters is an occurrence and personal decision of the President of the Government. Which almost inadvertently refers me to a recent article by Manuel Cruz on the book The Culture of Narcissism (1978, Christopher Lachs), where the former president of the Senate recommends a therapy to those who, suffering from this pathology of self-love, have ended up going into exile. of reality. Namely: that they read the Stoics, especially Epictetus, that “it is something that you saw a lot in times of defeat.”
Innocent question: were you thinking of Pedro Sánchez?