Sánchez launches the PSOE to a campaign of frentism

The President of the Government yesterday began a campaign of extreme frentism in which he definitively leaves the center-left political space to launch himself for the electorate identified with the postulates of the most radical left.

Pedro Sánchez gathered in Congress his deputies and senators, pending whether or not to be part of their electoral lists, to force them to exhibit support in the form of a standing ovation around himself and his strategy for the anti-election elections.

cipadas of July 23. In a populist escalation, the president marked what the tone of the PSOE will be: equate the PP with Vox – "there is no distinction" – and both with Donald Trump; point to a conspiracy of "the powerful" against him; insinuating that they will ask for his arrest as responsible for a false pout; Describe the right and its millions of voters as a "reactionary current", and accuse the media that are not related to it of "throwing lies and trafficking in lies". In an exercise of major contradiction, the president who has forged a permanent alliance with Bildu and ERC tried to combine that discourse based on the confrontation between Spaniards with a call for coexistence and plurality.

The message, reminiscent of the Pablo Iglesias who began his political career in the gatherings, is dangerous. A president of the Government should govern for all citizens and not disqualify those who have not voted for him. In addition, it exacerbates political and social tension,

And it distills, precisely, the Trumpism that it claims to fight.

As we reported today, the campaign of angry confrontation that Sánchez has announced has not been raised by the PSOE. It is the small nucleus that surrounds the president – the target of internal criticism for the verticality with which he acts – that has pointed the way. Beyond mobilizing a tired base, the objective is to assume the discourse of the radical left, alien to the social democratic tradition of the party, to concentrate all those votes on the socialist ballot. After the dismal results harvested by Podemos and by the acronyms supported by Sumar,

, raising it in March as his electoral ticket, to

. That is why he now seeks to occupy his space.

The strategy of fear against the caricature of

it has proven failed for the PSOE in the previous regional elections in Madrid, Castilla y León and Andalusia. Accentuating it not only divides society more, but also aggravates the drift of a historically key party in the democratic structuring of the country and that has given up addressing the majority of Spanish society.