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That the Andalusian PSOE is plunging into an internal crisis has finished confirming, if there was any doubt, the secretary general, Susana Díaz, with the letter she sent to militants on Thursday with a call to close ranks and a message unambiguous and clear: unity, unity and unity as the only way to recover the Andalusian Government. Unity around his leadership, lets glimpse.

The resignations of three members of the provincial executive of the Seville PSOE have opened a gap in Andalusian socialism that threatens the continuity of Diaz in the face of a regional congress that could be held this year or next, always depending on when Pedro Sánchez summons the federal conclave.

These three resignations in the PSOE of Seville - in which Diaz, who has been the leader and who is the most important group in Andalusia, militates - had been belittled by the provincial leadership headed by Verónica Pérez, despite the declared intention of its protagonists of launching an alternative project led by the current general secretary. However, the letter sent yesterday gives a fairly accurate idea of ​​the degree of upheaval generated by the last internal movements in the party and how Diaz has been losing ground in the control of the formation.

«I ask you, companions and companions, that we put all our strength, united, at the service of the Andalusians and the Andalusians, who need us more than ever, and in front of the rights, so that they do not run freely at our rights», Susana Díaz tells the affiliates of the PSOE-A, to which she adds that, the one she proposes, "is the way to return to the government of the Junta de Andalucía and open a new time of progress also in our land." And, finally, again, the appeal to unity: "Everyone will make it possible together."

The letter seems a clear reaction to the incipient movements of critics within the Andalusian PSOE who question Diaz's leadership and who do not want me to continue leading the party and, much less, to repeat as a candidate for the Presidency of the Board in the next elections.

Letter sent this Thursday by Susana Díaz to the PSOE-A militants.

These movements do not come only from the traditional Sanchista sector in Andalusia, but even from the same environment as Díaz, from the core of the party that, until now, had always supported it.

Nor does the day chosen by the general secretary to address her militants seem casual, since it coincides with the date chosen by critics to present herself publicly and make her claims known.

Jerónimo Guerrero, former mayor of El Coronil; Carmelo Cubero, former mayor of El Real de la Jara, and Manuel Domínguez, general secretary of the PSOE in El Viso del Alcor, resigned only a few days ago to their positions in the provincial executive of the Seville PSOE and yesterday they called an act to give an account of your project

Verónica Pérez, in question

His resignations - which were added by the mayor of Camas, Rafael Recio, officially for other reasons - also question the provincial secretary of the Sevillian PSOE, Verónica Pérez, who has always been one of Susana Díaz's strongest support .

To the point that Pérez was one of the key pieces in the operation with which Díaz and other leaders of the PSOE who supported her launched to appeal to Pedro Sánchez from the General Secretariat and which resulted in the Federal Committee of October 2016 .

Diaz’s performance has since been on the list of outstanding debts of Sánchez’s Andalusian supporters, who pursue the same goal as these resigning leaders and who are waiting for the regional congress of the party to be called to strike a blow to the current leader with an alternative candidacy to unseat it.

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