• Obituary Nicolás Redondo dies, the historic UGT leader who opened the door to González and broke with felipism to stop the country on 14-D

The death of

Nicolás Redondo Urbieta

has reunited Pedro Sánchez with the son of the historic UGT leader,

Nicolás Redondo Terreros

, whom the PSOE considered expelling from the party.

The President of the Government has gone this afternoon to the funeral chapel, installed at the union headquarters in Madrid, to offer his condolences to his relatives.

In 2021, the national Ferraz leadership decided to open a disciplinary file against Redondo Terreros - in addition to former Madrid president

Joaquín Leguina

- for his participation in an act with Isabel Díaz Ayuso during the electoral campaign in May of that year, in which the leader of the PP aspired to revalidate its mandate at the head of the Puerta del Sol Government. After addressing its allegations, the case ended up being filed.

"There was no political activity: it was a project of a foundation [Alma Tecnológica] to help people with significant disabilities. That was what we wanted to show the candidates, but someone got nervous," argued the former PSOE secretary in the Basque Country in an interview with EL MUNDO last December about the event that led to his threat of expulsion from the party.

"I made a defense of my freedom of expression: that of an affiliate may not be unlimited, but a base affiliate should have more freedom than deputies who are now ministers," he added.

Redondo Terreros has been very critical of the current government, although he assures that it is not "anti-Sanchista" and that he has been defending the same thing for years, "many times in overwhelming solitude", since he decided to leave active politics during the mandate of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero: "Now I am more accompanied, but I was alone for a long time (...). My way of being is temperate, but I say what I think. I will continue to say it if we are many and if I am left alone again, which is very likely ".

"We are at the end of the cycle: it could be for the current leadership of the PSOE, the party itself that emerged in Suresnes or the system of 78. That is the crossroads," reflected the former Basque leader in the interview he gave to this newspaper.

"I am forced to say that I do not agree with penal reforms that break the principle of equality and institutionalize nineteenth-century caciquismo, which consisted of exchanging impunity for peace of mind. The Penal Code cannot be changed for purely political reasons," he added.

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