The truth is that it surprised the critics as well as the supporters. Everyone was informed by the press about the progress of the congress. It is according to the statutes, therefore ordinary. But not only earlier than expected, but also before the instability turned into greater political weakness.
The leader’s supporters, in reality, will not be affected at all by Pedro Sanchez The PSOE congress has been brought forward by a year. It is the capricious barons that this conclave is targeting: because He has the power, but he doesn’t exercise it.so the only way for the president to establish himself is Laminate reviews that go against your bet to strengthen it: the Catalan concert.
In this key, sources of the Socialist Party interpret the fact that the leadership will be renewed, only one year after the renewal of Moncloa: from November of amnesty to November of concert.
It’s all about Catalonia: in the official version, because the president is organize “boldly” the disorder he inherited from the PP; in a dissident version, because “even if the principles of the party are undermined, Anything goes to maintain power“.
Seven new principles
The first is of course what the people in favour think, after reading in the press that only three years have passed. from the triumphant congress of Valencia to that of survivalIt will be in November and, supposedly, in Seville, always according to the leak of the media with better access to the information of the Moncloa.
Three years ago, Sánchez had already pardoned those convicted of the crime. process. But he still defended seven principles, in the face of the Catalan separatist challenge.
One, the “censorship of nationalism”. Two, the “multilingualism” in schools in bilingual regions. Third, repair a “skills card” autonomous. Fourth, a “new autonomous financing with clarify the rules“. Fifth, “equity and solidarity multilateralism“for (six) the “territorial convergence”. And seven, and the “institutional loyalty with everything that unites us.”
Now he will defend others. Those of the agreement that led to Salvador Illa to the Generalitat, handing over (almost) everything that was then rejected to the independence movement.
Aragon, the last bastion
This is why some of the most critical of the current PSOE – Baron Emiliano Garcia-Page to the myth Felipe Gonzalez– They say that it is Sánchez who has changed, not them. And that his opinion continues to coincide with “what was approved at the PSOE congresses.”
If this November is to be like all those celebrated by a government party, that is to say calm for the leader-, this would mean that the man from La Mancha and the former president would lose this argument.
And not just for them.
This Thursday, already in the night, the Executive of the Aragonese PSOE published a statement directly opposed to the agreement that gave Illa the Government. A vote had taken place. “unanimous” rejection to the document agreed between the ERC and the COPS, after a long debate during which the political strategy for the new course was analyzed.
Dario VillagrasaSecretary of the Organization of the Aragonese PSOE, said at the end of the meeting that his party has always defended the model of “real cost” of services public for the distribution of species of the common regime, “without privileges of any kind” between autonomies.
Or, what is the same, that the Executive of Javier Lamban He has remained faithful to the principles of the presentation approved in 2021 by the PSOE of Valencia. Even though he knows full well that they are such a minority that the deputies elected by the region on the party ballots “They don’t have their loyalty in Aragon, but in Madrid”.
Because, and this is what Lambán says, in a conversation with this newspaper -before knowing the early convocation of the federal congress of the PSOE-, The lists were imposed by Ferraz, “erasing those who had left here with 90% support from activism.”
The whole debate in Spain is focused on the fact that Catalonia’s exit from the common regime is unfair for the rest of the Autonomous Communities. And in the PSOE, in reality, this is also discussed. Thus Maria Jesus MonteroMinister of Finance, said “this is not a concert”, and that Joseph Borrellformer minister of Sánchez and previously Secretary of State for Finance of Felipe, will answer “I do not want to look like a liar, yes, he is.”
If Catalonia wants to collect and manage all its taxes, as the PSOE now defends – and even if in the end there is a “solidarity contribution”-, the evidence is that the Government You will have more money than you have had up to now. And this necessarily translates into there will be less to distribute to others.
Above all, thanks to the 17 Communities and the two Autonomous Cities, only three are net contributors: Madrid, the Balearic Islands… and Catalonia.
But the heart of the problem, as this note from the Aragonese socialist leadership understands, is what Lamban has been defending since he opposed Sánchez: that Spain cannot “rest its governability on the parties that want to destroy it.” And that “the most scandalous thing would be if it were PSOE, the party that will lead the bankruptcy of inequalities“among the Spaniards.
What happens is that no one in the federal executive listens to Lamban, like Page. The party only retains a small share of territorial power in regions not imbued with nationalism. In Castilla-La Mancha and also in Asturias. AND Adrien Barbon balances between his Sanchism cradle and the rejection that this agreement “harms” their land.
three conferences
The entire machinery of the current PSOE therefore depends on Sánchez’s resistance to Moncloa.
The PSC-ERC agreement does not only include the quota for Catalonia. It also devotes the end of the rights of Spanish speakers at school. And the creation of a “National Congress for the resolution of the political conflict between Catalonia and Spain.”
There are also these grievances against what was defended at the Valencia Congress. But the key to “end of the constitutional model” This is the kind of Catalan “fiscal sovereignty”. Because yes, “it’s a concert, as Borrell says”, Lamban laments. And this is not recognized in the Magna Carta, except for the Basque Country and Navarre.
This is why the president’s entourage has stopped the clock, before the other two congresses already convened in October and November – by Junts and Esquerra, on which parliamentary stability depends – further weaken his position.
Those of Carles Puigdemont They announced that they would review “their relations with the PSOE” during the conclave on October 27, the anniversary of the illegal declaration of independence. And now they will discover that Sánchez will still be prepare an ideological shift, supposedly favorable to his theses. But without finishing.
And the Republicans, who need the stability of the president in Madrid and the president In Barcelona they will reach their refoundation not only splitas they are. but also weakened by the influence of the Junts, in terms of sovereignty, and of the PSOE, in terms of progress.
And if the General Budgets were in danger because of these institutional processes in the formations that led the coup d’état seven years ago processThe best way to stop it is to align the PSOE: all together, and Sanchez firston the path to a “plurinational Spain in a federal Europe”.
