Susana Díaz's three mistakes

• Politics.Susana Díaz: "I was wrong and Pedro Sánchez was right"

"I was wrong when I defended that this country had to have a government even if it was very right like yours, and Pedro Sánchez was right." The phrase, pronounced by Susana Díaz during a debate with the president of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno (PP), in the plenary of the Andalusian Parliament last Tuesday, has given rise to all kinds of interpretations in the PSOE-A, which does not it has just been believed that his secretary general has made this unexpected 'gift' to his political adversaries , those inside the party and those outside.

Because it means admitting that it was a mistake to defend socialist abstention in favor of the investiture of Mariano Rajoy in October 2016, prior conspiracy against Pedro Sánchez for attempting to form an alternative coalition government with Podemos and the support of separatist nationalism.

But it also implies, and that is the most serious, the recognition of an error that, in the end, cost Susana Díaz somehow the Presidency of the Board, after years engaged in an organic battle for the control of the party that led to disregard the management of the Andalusian Government, divided the militancy and ended up demobilizing its electorate. Admitting that all this was of no use and intending to continue leading the Andalusian PSOE without assuming the cost of responsibility would be a risky exercise too risky.

Therefore, those who know the Andalusian leader distrust this apparent effort of self-criticism and see in the pose adopted a deep ironic charge with which, once again, responds to those who point to her now for not raising her voice at the drift of Pedro Sánchez and his concessions to secessionism.

«I was wrong, Pedro Sánchez was right». He repeated it up to three times during his speech, as if he knew it was going to cost his parish to assimilate the claim. "We did it for generosity, thinking that, when it was reversed, the PP would put the interests of the country ahead."

To begin with, Díaz starts from the less inaccurate premises (as some leaders of his party have reminded him) as well as incongruous ones. For example, he speaks of "generosity" and the defense of the "interests of the country" but then states that he was confident that the PP would correspond with a similar gesture when the occasion occurred. That is, ahead of Spain's interest, it was its intention to charge the favor in some way, perhaps thinking of a subsequent call for elections in which she herself would be the Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the Government.

The deputy Elena Valenciano came out publicly hours later to correct her: «The truth is that we did not defend abstention thinking that the PP would do the same if the occasion arose. Some of us did it thinking that it was the best for our country and our democracy ».

Alfonso Guerra , one of Diaz's main supporters, also showed his stupor on Onda Cero ("I think a mess has been made") by the words of the secretary general who, among other things, leave arguments helpless to those in the match they gave their faces for her.

Susana Díaz also intends to forget that her maneuvers to evict Pedro Sánchez did not begin after the 2016 general elections but much earlier. In fact, on December 21, 2014, two years before the Federal Committee in which the resignation of the Secretary General was forced, THE WORLD already revealed Susana Díaz's plans to snatch the post. The lousy election results of 2015 and 2016 and, above all, the fear that spread to an alleged Frankestein government served Susana Díaz as an occasion, but the operation had been set in motion long ago.

Nor is it quite true that the agreement with the PP was not possible in 2019 because the popular ones refused, because Pedro Sánchez closed his pact with Pablo Iglesias in just a few hours to avoid opening other alternative scenarios. That is the true burden of intention of the message conveyed by Díaz that, in the background, and thus it is possible to infer from his words, he continues to think that it would have been preferable to negotiate with the PP rather than throwing himself in the arms of Podemos. He says "I was wrong" but endorses the responsibility of what happened - a government that he still considers dangerous - to those who have not wanted to reach an agreement between the constitutionalist forces, and among them is clearly Pedro Sánchez.

Be that as it may, it seems obvious that Díaz was wrong to dispute Sanchez's organic power, he made a mistake by underestimating the cost that that pulse would have for the maintenance of institutional power in Andalusia and he was wrong this week giving, with inexplicable awkwardness, some chest blows with those who seem to pretend to be forgiven infidelity at a time of extreme weakness and with its continuity questioned.

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