Politics Susana Díaz will have to leave the leadership of the PSOE-A when she formalizes her candidacy for the primaries
Politics Pedro Sánchez opens the war with Susana Díaz to cover the collapse in Madrid
It was on March 13, 2015, during a rally held in the Almeria town of Vícar, when Pedro Sánchez launched into the air of a crowded sports hall the formula that, in his opinion, would guarantee electoral success and the internal unity of the PSOE: " You in San Telmo and I in Moncloa ". Actually the quote is not literal. What Pedro Sánchez said that day was: "Let's forge, Susana, you and I, a new alliance between Andalusia and the rest of Spain with socialist governments in San Telmo and Moncloa." But the message was clear and the press reports coincided in underlining the phrase as a warning from the then secretary general of the PSOE to the president of the Board.
The waters had already been troubled long before, because although Pedro Sánchez had come to the leadership of the party with the endorsement, among others, of Susana Díaz, the Sevillian leader had already shown signs of not being satisfied with the course of events and allowed herself love for those who encouraged her to challenge
Sánchez for the candidacy for the Presidency of the Government
. That 'You in San Telmo and I in Moncloa' was equivalent to 'let's get along' or 'let's have the party in peace'. But the truce of that electoral campaign, that of the regional elections of 2015, did not last long. Susana Díaz was elected president of the Board with the external support of Ciudadanos and, as soon as her institutional power was tied up, she embarked on the process of moving the chair to the secretary general, in an escalation of tension that ended with the resignation of Sánchez in the bloody Steering Committee of October 1, 2016.
Susana Díaz and the historical socialists believed they had definitively put an end to that failed invention that had been the ephemeral leadership of Pedro Sánchez. But they did not count on their ability to
reinvent themselves, victimize and revitalize themselves
at the hands of a militancy that had attended atonic a coup in command that trampled the pronouncement of the bases and internal democracy. Her loss in the primaries on May 16, 2017, was an
unexpected tumble for Susana Díaz
. The militancy had turned its back on him throughout Spain. He only won in Andalusia. But, even in this community, 37% of the militants spoke out against his candidacy.
Then 31.7% voted for Pedro Sánchez and 5.2% for Patxi López, the third candidate in the running. Critics are now clinging to these results, extrapolated over time and fueled by the inflationary effect of the loss of institutional power, to convince themselves that it is impossible for Susana Díaz to win the primary in Andalusia. Or what is the same, if already in 2017 his figure generated the rejection of
37% of the militancy in Andalusia
, when he had the encouragement of all the historical and the power of San Telmo, today, with the stigma of having lost power for the PSOE after 40 years of hegemony, the support of the rank and file is easy to have collapsed.
Because the internal movement that has been demanding that he take a step back and facilitate the renewal at the head of the Andalusian PSOE is no longer just a matter of the
original Andalusian
sanchistas
. To this internal 'clamor', strategically fed by Ferraz, many old
susanistas
have been added
, starting with the secretary general of the PSOE of Jaén and president of the Provincial Council,
Francisco Reyes
, one of the organic referents of the Andalusian PSOE. Or
Miguel Ángel Vázquez
, who was a spokesperson on the Board and coordinator of his campaign; and also
Mario Jiménez
, a former spokesman in Parliament and a companion in fatigue since the days when both were gifted students of José Antonio Griñán.
However, leaving Susana Díaz for dead (politically) in advance is as risky as it was to do so at the time with Pedro Sánchez. The still general secretary of the Andalusian PSOE knows the party thoroughly and, even though her nose was less fine than it seemed to appreciate the feeling of the street, it would be naive to think that she is presented to the primaries to knowingly lose. Those who think they know her admit that they have been surprised by her determination to continue leading the Andalusian PSOE and
reject the offers that have been sent to her from Moncloa
. She demands her right to try to recover the Government of the Junta on the basis that she is still undefeated in a regional government. Well, it was she and not Juanma Moreno (it should be remembered) who won the December 2018 elections.
Diaz has reluctantly accepted the advancement of the primaries to avoid losing a secondary battle that he knew was controlled in advance by Ferraz's will.
But the activation of her relief has not caught her off guard.
Not in vain has Andalusia been kicking itself
town by town for
two months
to gather the opinion of mayors and socialist activists.
His challenge, as was that of Pedro Sánchez in the 2017 primaries, is to defeat the Ferraz apparatus, and he has had no dissimulation in using the apparatus of San Vicente (headquarters of the Andalusian PSOE) to prepare the ground.
That is why the process has been advanced, to wrest control of the information (the militant censuses, mainly) and the party's media, which, according to PSOE rules, must be put at the service of all the candidates and not only of the party. General Secretary.
In this battle, the mayor of Seville, Juan Espadas, leaves as sponsored by the Federal Executive of the PSOE and
favorite of the movement for renewal
in the Andalusian PSOE.
But recent history teaches that when the polls are called, nothing is decided until the final count.
The ballot boxes are loaded by the devil.
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