When Delphine de Vigan spoke of loyalty in the book of the same title, she was referring to those invisible bonds that bind us to others – dead and alive – to whispered promises, silent loyalties, contracts made “most often with ourselves”… Sometimes, they remain for life and other times, they disappear suddenly.
The commitment that remains unbreakable in José Luis Ábalos, former Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, only concerns the brand in which he has been active since 1981 and was asked to leave it last February. It is no longer with Pedro Sánchez or with the leadership of what was his party for 43 years. Those invisible ties have been broken. And the former minister wanted to make this known to all of Spain by voting in a different direction from the socialist deputies in the first plenary session of the new political course, even if, seven months ago, when he announced his move to the Joint Group, he promised to follow the voting guidelines of the PSOE.
