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Updated Tuesday, February 20, 2024-10:05
PSOE Sánchez criticizes the "lack of territorial leaders" while his party sinks: it loses deputies in 12 autonomies
Politics Page calls on Sánchez for "deep reflection" to "avoid a cyclone that destroys" the PSOE
The elections in Galicia have stirred up the internal debate in the PSOE after the debacle suffered by the candidacy of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, overwhelmed by the Galician Nationalist Bloc and with five fewer deputies. Yesterday the President of the Government blamed "the lack of territorial leaders" for this bad result, together with those achieved on May 28 in the regional elections while barons like Emiliano García Page targeted Ferraz directly.
Today the turn has come for the general secretary of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato, who has moved between "loyalty" to the party leader and the "need to analyze and reflect" on the situation in which the socialists find themselves with the amnesty law on the table. The diagnosis of the Madrid baron involves
"recovering the vocation of majorities" that he has historically attributed to his party and not addressing "small tribal niches"
. "We must recover that ambition that the PSOE always had to represent the vast majority with very specific policies but adapted to the times," he stated in an interview on Onda Cero.
"The PSOE does not belong to its militants, it is the heritage of Spanish society and when 24 people founded it, they did not found it for themselves, they founded it for Spain," said Lobato, who added that the socialists must "overcome that party space." own" and "be as transversal as possible". And in this transversality the leader of the PSOE-M has placed the different federations of the party as a key point. "This is a federal party and it means that
the country's position is the coherent aggregation of everyone's political decisions
and what Madrid has to say, for example, is very important because it provides that richness and diversity."