• 23-J Sánchez ignores the anger of the barons for the lists and applauds the pact between Sumar and Podemos
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Neither Emiliano García-Page nor Javier Lambán have attended this Saturday the Federal Committee of the PSOE, a meeting of special importance for the party because it was the first after its debacle in the municipal and regional elections and also the takeoff ramp towards the generals. The interference of the national leadership in the lists of candidates for Congress and the Senate prepared by Castilla-La Mancha and Aragon for the new appointment with the polls has been the spigot that has ended up shattering the relationship between the two barons most critical of the Government of Pedro Sánchez and Ferraz without waiting for the result of the scrutiny of July 23.

"Things are said here," warned the president and secretary general of the Socialists during his speech behind closed doors in the highest body between congresses – of which about 300 members are part – in implicit allusion to the two absent regional leaders. Among the twenty participants who have taken the floor, other "capons" have also been given to the comrades in the ranks who mark greater distance with the official line at a time when the message that is repeated almost like a mantra both in public and in private is that they need to remain united.

In the same vein, the acting president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, has expressed himself in the Federal Committee, despite the fact that he is another of the barons annoyed with the retouching of the lists that the PSOE dome has made and that he will be evicted from the Government that he has led for eight years by the sum of forces of PP and Vox. , although the 28-M got 54,000 votes more than in 2019. All the sources consulted by this newspaper agree on the "elegance" of his speech within the "discrepancies" he maintains with the party leadership.

The only criticism in an internal key that has been heard in the socialist conclave has been that of the general secretary in Castilla y León, Luis Tudanca, who has said he feels "indignant", "disappointed" and "enormously disappointed" by the imposition of Ferraz of the heads of the list to the Senate for Valladolid and to the Congress for Ávila. Even so, he has assured that he abides by the decision and has joined the generalized closing of ranks pledging to "leave the skin" so that Sánchez obtains the greatest possible support at the polls.

"Let's hope that this time the whole party and its leaders are united like a pineapple and nobody puts their particular electoral interests before those of the organization and nobody lends themselves to being the useful fool of the right," Milagros Tolón, acting mayor of Toledo and president of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, had previously slipped. also in veiled reference to Page and Lamban. This public intervention has set the tone for the messages that have been delivered afterwards without an open signal.

In Ferraz another absence has not gone unnoticed, that of Adrián Barbón, president of Asturias and the only socialist leader besides that of Castilla-La Mancha who will be able to continue at the head of the regional government with a majority parliamentary support. In his team, which has excused his attendance for the invitation to a wedding, they emphasize that there is "no discordance" and that they have sent a delegation on behalf of their federation of which Adriana Lastra, former deputy secretary general of the party, has not been part, a detail that has not been ignored in Madrid.

Discrepancies

Page's discrepancy for the lists has been produced by Ferraz's attempt to displace his right hand, Sergio Gutiérrez, as number one in Congress for Toledo to place Milagros Tolón, related to Sánchez. The only baron with an absolute majority managed to avoid this movement, but not that finally the national leadership included the name of the still mayor on the ballot as number two.

The Aragonese Socialists, in turn, have revolted over the inclusion of Susana Sumelzo – a member of the Federal Executive – in the candidacy of Zaragoza after they had already agreed to put the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, at the head against her criteria. "We deeply regret this decision that will produce, with all certainty, a deep discouragement among the militants a few weeks before the elections," they maintain in the party of Lambán.

In the socialist leadership they insist that the territories send "proposals" of names and that the National List Commission "always" makes the changes it deems appropriate. Despite the discomfort of the affected communities, the candidacies of the 23-J have been approved in the Federal Committee of this Saturday unanimously.

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