• Politics Feijóo urges critical socialists to "defend what they think"

The absences in the Federal Committee of the PSOE held this Saturday in Madrid of the barons who in recent months have publicly questioned some decisions of the Government of Pedro Sánchez has eliminated at the root any hint of criticism in a meeting with which the party has begun to grease its machinery for the municipal and regional elections of May 28. The presidents of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, and of Aragon, Javier Lambán, have notified at the last minute their self-exclusion wielding personal reasons, to which has been added the non-attendance already planned of the Valencian Ximo Puig, in his case with the argument of the Fallas.

During the more than four hours in which the interventions of a score of leaders of different federations have taken place, only the controversy of the law of only yes is yes, whose application has already allowed the reduction of sentences to more than 700 convicted of sexual assaults, has been mentioned on one occasion. The one who has brought up the issue has been Pablo Zuloaga, vice president of Cantabria, and exclusively to value that the socialist wing of the coalition at the head of La Moncloa has promoted the reform of the norm to stop the review of sentences despite the fierce resistance of Podemos.

At the meeting on Saturday there has been no explicit pronouncement on the alleged plot of collection of bites to businessmen of the Canary Islands in exchange for favors that is investigated in the Mediator case, in which the already former national deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes, known as Tito Berni, and his nephew, Thaiset Fuentes are implicated. , former director of Livestock in the regional government. Yes, the president of the archipelago, Ángel Víctor Torres, has referred to the matter implicitly to defend the "immediate action" of the party when alleged irregularities are detected after both were expelled fulminantly.

In such a balsamic atmosphere, the Federal Committee of the PSOE -maximum organ of the party between congresses- has ratified the electoral lists of 28-M except for exceptions such as the City Council of Almeria, where the official candidacy does not have the majority support of the militancy. It has also approved the framework program that theoretically has to be assumed by all its regional candidates and which includes measures such as the promotion of regional plans to eradicate any form of sexual exploitation, including prostitution.

During his speech behind closed doors, Sánchez has told his own how identified he has felt with the presidents of Finland, Sanna Marin, and Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, in his recent visit to two countries for the "personal attacks" that, as he said, also suffer both social democratic leaders of the opposition parties. What he has not revealed is the strategy he will follow in the motion of censure that he himself will face on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

In the part of his speech that has been followed by the media through a plasma television installed in the press room of the headquarters of Ferraz, the head of the Executive has insisted on the strategy of encouraging fear of the arrival of Vox to the institutions to try to weaken the PP electorally, whom he considers his real rival. "The project of [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo goes through reissuing coalition governments with the extreme right wherever it adds," he warned.

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