• Andalusia Susana Díaz asks the PSOE for a primary in Andalusia "without pushing"

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The final battle between Pedro Sánchez and Susana Díaz, after two years of tactical truce, has begun and the general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE is not going to make it easy for her intimate enemy.

Díaz will carry her confrontation with the socialist leader to the end and will be true to her word by appearing in the primaries to be a candidate for the Board.

Susana Díaz will face the rival designated by Ferraz, the mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas, who this Thursday confirmed his candidacy.

Everything has accelerated in Andalusia after the collapse of the PSOE in the regional elections in Madrid, held on Tuesday.

Only 48 hours later, and given the wear suffered by the socialists and the risk for La Moncloa after its high involvement in Ángel Gabilondo's campaign, a new internal battle was activated from Ferraz against the rival of always and with control of the powerful Andalusian federation at stake.

The advance of the Andalusian primaries, justified by a possible electoral advance -the elections are due at the end of 2022 and the regional president, Juanma Moreno, does not currently contemplate an advance-, therefore opens a delicate front to Pedro Sánchez, but that It will serve as a distraction and to divert attention in a PSOE that was not expected such a fiasco in Madrid.

Sánchez has tried it the hard way, offering Susana Díaz several exits in the form of positions -such as the presidency of the Senate-, and now he will do it the hard way, after the leader of the Andalusian Socialists has made it clear that her intention is resist and still has rope.

"I am not interested in power for power's sake," said the leader of the Andalusian Socialists on Thursday.

Susana with a youthful air

Díaz conveyed a new message with his words and also with the scenography that accompanied him, even with his own clothing.

Youthful air, a T-shirt with the slogan

Look at the positive in all things

and a slogan in the background alluding to the future.

The Andalusian leader launched into the battle pushed by Ferraz, who has forced the advance of the primaries against the criteria of the socialist regional leadership, although in the end the Andalusian leadership of the party, with its leader at the fore, has tried to lead the initiative of that advance.

But not even that has allowed Sánchez, who hours before Díaz formally summoned his executive to request the advance - even if it was reluctantly -, he went ahead and cut him off.

The Andalusian leader had decided on the evidence that the resistance was useless, but convinced, and reiterated this Thursday, that it is not the time.

Because there are no elections called in Andalusia and, above all, because after 4-M he was betting on not opening another internal front.

Just what Sánchez has done.

"No pushing"

The Andalusian leader herself testified of the tension between the two, who publicly showed her anger at learning of Ferraz's decision from the press.

And it was not the only criticism more or less veiled.

In addition, he called for a primary "without pushing" after reiterating his rejection of the "internal noise" that has overshadowed his own opposition work, with continuous requests from different sectors of the party related to Sánchez to provoke the advance.

What's more, he went on to say that this pressure campaign has "eroded the image of the PSOE of Andalusia."

In any case, he appealed to the militancy, as he has been doing in recent months, in which he has traveled a good part of inland Andalusia in search of support.

Because, he emphasized, "the militants will decide."

Who will be his direct rival in this battle, Espadas, made official this Thursday what was a fact: that he will appear in the primaries with the express support of Moncloa.

In case there was any doubt who is Sánchez's candidate.

Swords: "You can count on me"

"Thank you for your patience, you can count on me," said the mayor of the Andalusian capital in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Finance and Government spokesperson, María Jesús Montero.

To mark differences from minute one, Espadas rectified Diaz and stressed that, more than "noise", the primaries "generate illusion", while he was confident that they are the "revulsive" that the Andalusian PSOE needs.

"This is the moment," Minister Montero said on her side when asked for her opinion on the advancement of the socialist primaries, although she was very careful to verbalize her support for Espadas, stating that Ferraz "does not propose" any candidate.

His presence was enough.

Among other things, those who defend as Montero that it is "the moment" of the primaries wield a possible advance of the autonomic ones in Andalusia that the two government partners, the Popular Party and Citizens, do not stop denying.

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