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Four years later, same acronyms but a different party. The PSOE held its 40th Federal Congress in Valencia this weekend. A "congress of unity" where internal struggles have been kept under the rug, where leaders have closed ranks with the leadership of Pedro Sánchez, where wounds with the past have been healed with the presence of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Felipe González and where the PSOE has gone from selling itself as "the left" to being the spearhead of social democracy in Europe.

This Sunday, Sánchez has taken advantage of the great event of socialism to transfer his bet to be in moderation, in the center.

The PSOE now wears the sticker of Social Democracy on its jacket.

Four years ago the slogan was "We are the left", now "We move forward."

And that journey has led to the substitution of left for social democracy.

A few years ago, the irruption of Podemos on the Spanish political map forced the PSOE to turn to the left to try to counteract the strength of the Pablo Iglesias formation.

Now, being in La Moncloa and with the

purple

chaining declines in the elections, in the party they assume that the only possibility to grow and regain ground against the PP that now takes advantage in the polls, is from moderation.

"Pedro has realized that the options of the PSOE go through moderation," explain socialist sources.

The objective is to be able to scratch votes from the center, to the right and left of their ideological space.

Hence movements such as, for example, the negotiation with the PP to renew bodies such as the

Constitutional Court,

in order to mark a centrist profile in front of United We Can.

"142 years later we are where we are because it is from the social democracy where people's lives are changed, from where the world is changed," Sánchez explained in an intervention at the Valencia Fair before 9,500 people, according to data from the organization .

"Social democracy is the most advanced and modern political ideal, the most current."

When Sánchez acceded to La Moncloa in 2018 he became, if not the main one, one of the main references of social democracy in Europe.

The advancement of the Social Democrats, whose culmination may be

Olaf Scholz's

coming to power in Germany

, may dilute Sánchez's role as a reference.

For this reason, the President of the Government vindicates his management of the Covid-19 pandemic and his socioeconomic policies as an example of social democracy to follow.

Sánchez's arguments

"Do you know what this exercise that we have practiced in the pandemic is called? It's called social democracy, we've been practicing it for a few decades," Sánchez said, in an intervention where on multiple occasions he wanted to visualize the umbilical cord that links his government action with the one that at the time was carried out by Felipe González or José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

"We have endured criticism for being social democrats, Felipe González or José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero know this well. And now those who criticized us reproach us for not being sufficiently social democrats."

"The social democracy is strong", he has sentenced, to put on the table that this project is the one that can face the advance of the "extreme right".

"Against the social democracy there is no strong idea. When powerful ideas are lacking, they resort to insult or disqualification."

For the Prime Minister and leader of the PSOE, his project is the wall against the danger posed by "a right and an extreme right that despise politicians and want power without democracy. This is a risk that we have in our country. They are commonplace. that are permeating and polluting the political life of traditional formations such as the traditional right, which is self-conscious and disoriented, "he reflected in reference to the PP and Vox.

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