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The judgment of the case of the ERE not unexpectedly has stopped falling like a bomb in the ranks of socialism, old socialism, PSOE Felipe González, José Bono , Javier Solana , Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba ... and Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán .

Many of them, in public or in private, closed ranks on Tuesday in defense of the two former presidents of the party and their, they say, "personal honesty." For that "honesty", for not having taken "not a euro home", bet Emiliano García Page, José Bono himself or Guillermo Fernández Vara. Many others did it in conversations without a microphone.

The support of what remains of the old guard contrasted with the silence of the current secretary general of the PSOE and acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who once recited Ferraz's argument by wrapping up the convicted today, and now prefers to put distance to avoid assume the political responsibilities that, in his day, did not hesitate to claim with a motion of censure to Mariano Rajoy and, incidentally, with a new pirouette, take the opportunity to underpin his leadership by rolling discrepancies of a socialism of another era.

The current dome of the PSOE has erased from his historical memory the tweet of June 2016 in which Sánchez said: "Chaves and Griñán are honest people. I trust their innocence." Or his statements in Veo7 , in January 2010, when Chaves was third vice-president of the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Griñán president of the Junta de Andalucía, and he tried to deny the information of EL MUNDO about the corrupt plot of the ERE, insisting in which the first was "an excellent vice president who pays for his costumes and his travels" and that "for more than 30 years of public work in Andalusia and in the Government of Spain he has done a great service to the country."

Sánchez 10 years ago

Then, Pedro Sánchez tried to divert attention to the corruption cases of the PP: "The gestapillos , in the Community of Madrid, in other parties," he said. This Tuesday, the secretary general and acting president let it be José Luis Ábalos, secretary of the Socialist Organization, who gave the face after knowing the sentence, but to circumscribe to the scope of the PSOE-A, which has its own legal personality, any type of responsibility and, incidentally, lash out against the PP for the Gürtel case.

Neither Sanchez nor his acting Government have anything to do with this matter that affects people who are no longer in the party, came the number three and current Minister of Development, noting that both Chaves and Griñán, in addition to presiding over the Board Andalusia and ministerial work in the Government of Spain, were nothing less than presidents of the PSOE, as before Ramón Rubial or as now Cristina Narbona .

In the ranks of the old socialism this demarcation was assisted with stupor. The consulted sources especially lamented the condemnation of Pepe Griñán, a man whom they continue to consider, despite the condemnation, "honored with a full letter", and sadly pointed to the silence of the secretary general "as if he had never heard of him" .

Some, even, predicted that this sentence will end up being used by Sánchez to definitely laminate the dissenting voices - already very scarce and weak - with his leadership and short-circuit any aspiration Susana Díaz might have, right-hand man at the time of José Antonio Viera , ex General secretary of the party in Seville and sentenced to seven years in prison and 18 years of disqualification.

"I see halfway through PSOE," a critical voice was crying bitterly on Tuesday night, "rejoicing at this, because to see who of the old men will now have eggs to criticize Sanchez. The speech that this is socialism against whom he fought is about to begin. "

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