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Seventh round of consultations for Felipe VI and no prospect of success. The King's contacts with the representatives of the parliamentary forces begin today in a climate of weariness, on a sterile ground from which practically no one expects fruit. Pedro Sánchez, the only leader with possibilities, has squandered the trust of his allies and will close tomorrow, according to all bets, the appointments of the Monarch alone.

Those who from the beginning gave him backing are now suspicious, lamenting his "pride" and the "disdain" that has brought them for a few months that none of the sources consulted qualify as "negotiation." Quite the contrary, all point to a period of "electoral strategy and marketing" in which the policy has never existed with capital letters.

The country seems inevitably headed for new elections that will take place at a time of deep internal and external instability: judgment of the process , Brexit, trade war, announcements of economic recession ... A bleak horizon that the polls probably will not help clear.

From the ranks of ERC, one of the forces willing not to hinder the investiture of the socialist candidate, now detachment detachment, distrust and discomfort. They will not go by their own decision to the round of consultations with the King but they already predict that nothing will come of it. They write down the bulk of the blame for a foreseeable failure of Pedro Sánchez, who they say "has no courage to be a leftist leader or to offer a different Spain." They are convinced that "they fear the forces of the regime, the factual powers that want a PSOE, Citizens and PP alliance."

"He never wanted the pact"

They reproach him for not having undertaken since April 29, the day after the general elections, serious negotiations with United We, PNV and themselves. They suspect that he never wanted the commitment to the left.

In Izquierda Unida, you are inclined to explore an agreement that does not involve the coalition government that Pablo Iglesias claims, admit the impossibility of accepting the terms of a pact like the one that the PSOE finally proposed. "You can't humiliate who sits at your table," they argue. They also think that Sánchez "never wanted the pact" and although, in an exercise of self-criticism, they admit that Unidos Podemos "did not know how to find the limit at the time," they warn that the electoral hopes that the PSOE harbors can be a mirage.

Canarian Coalition also does not expect surprises from the round. They dismiss a PSOE-United We can last minute pact. "Sánchez has never wanted it," they say coinciding with IU and ERC. They also opened in July a door to the socialist leader on the condition that he committed himself to comply with the Canarian demands contained in the Budgets . "We have not received a single call," they say. For CC, the impression that Sanchez leaves is only "superb."

Socialist sources blame Sánchez's mistakes on his chief of staff, Iván Redondo

In the PSOE, nobody will dare in public to contradict the leader; However, there are those who believe that the strategy has not been adequate. "Policy has been lacking and there is plenty of marketing." They believe that in the end the image that has been transferred is just the one that a statesman should not transmit. "The terms have been reversed and we are now accused of putting the interest of the leader and the party before that of the country." In the party, those who long for more politics and less laboratory strategies blame the mistakes on the president's chief of staff, Iván Redondo .

The formation of Albert Rivera claims to be "ready for new elections." In the opinion of Citizens, it is clear that "distrust" has been installed between Sánchez and Iglesias and will not recover. Cs distributes blame: "too much ego on both sides and little project". They also warn that the expectations of the PSOE to achieve a great victory 10-N may not be fulfilled. In their case, they reject the idea of ​​a massive escape of their voters towards "the sanchist PSOE".

Theater and marketing

The popular , meanwhile, do not save criticism of the two left formations for their "inefficiency" and "irresponsibility." "The theater they have set up has been embarrassing, with armchair marketing that has set off the alarms of businessmen, with a continuous crossing of declarations and interested leaks," they reproach.

In the dome of the PP they claim not to understand that "Sánchez pacts with his natural partners in the Autonomous Communities and in the Town Halls and not in the Government of the nation". The only explanation they find is that the socialist leader "is obsessed with going to new elections."

"The responsibility of the new call will be only yours. Spain is not for jokes or games and theaters. Sanchez has spent months engaged in an election campaign, making intolerable use of institutions for tacticism and blackmailing the autonomous communities blocking the money that it belongs to them because it suits him ".

The popular also claim to have everything ready to go to the polls and insist that their leader Pablo Casado, will remain in his role as "firm, coherent opposition and with a sense of state."

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