The PSOE is approaching its federal congress in Seville with the aim of renewing the ideological corpus of the party, three years after the last congress. As reflected in the framework presentation presented this week, the training of Pedro Sánchez will formalize a new Turn left of an interventionist nature in various areas.
Compared to the agreements of the Valencia Congress held in 2021, the socialists are now radicalizing their vision on key issues such as housing, the media, the economy or taxation, and becoming more ambitious on the SMI and the reduction of working hours . (which until now responded to requests from Podemos and Sumar).
Even if the DANA that hit the Valencian Community left the date of the congress pending – more and more voices within the party believe that it should be postponed to February – the machine is still in motion. Local groups had until this Saturday to present amendments to the presentation, with the aim of integrating them into the text which will be debated, in principle, from November 29 to December 1.
However, many local groups, particularly those in DANA-affected territories, have found it difficult to sit down to address this internal debate. “We focus on what is important, which is helping,” says a senior Valencian PSOE official.
But the turning point will be made official sooner or later. The differences between the Valencia resolution and the Seville presentation are clear from the language used. In its new presentation, the PSOE speaks of intensifying the fight against “megarrich” (he mentions them four times) and against the “ultra international” (which he mentions in five).
These concepts, now common in Pedro Sánchez’s speeches, do not even appear in the Valencia resolution. The concept of “great fortunes” has not appeared either, nor has the reduction of the legal voting age to 16 (which Sumar and Podemos were until now the only ones to defend).
Accommodation
But the turning point is not limited to forms and reaches the concrete. For example, the PSOE went from saying in 2021 that “face with courage “the regulation of tourist accommodation” and, in 2024, directly commit to prohibiting the conversion of residential accommodation into tourist accommodation in areas of high demand. He wants to do it before 2030.
The PSOE also recommends containing rent prices, gradually increasing the stock of social housing until it exceeds at least 6% of the total before the end of the decade and fighting against real estate speculation. The star measurement, in this case, would be a special progressive property tax of the third house.
On the other hand, a novelty that Podemos has been calling for for years and that the presentation of the socialists now assumes is that of protect the right to housing in the Constitution. The formula, in this case, would be “permanently maintain the
public property in the case of housing benefiting from public promotion.
Business
One of the most striking measures of the presentation at the Seville Congress is to force large companies by law to distribute part of your profits among its employees, “with the aim of promoting the involvement and efficiency of our employees and achieving a more equitable distribution of wealth”.
In the Valencia congress resolution, however, the party opted for more lax measures. Then, the socialists talked about territorializing corporate profits through a system of common tax base, via corporate tax.
Compared, for example, to Sumar’s economic program from last year – the current program has not yet been updated – the measures did not go that far. Thus, in the electoral context, the coalition led by Yolanda Diaz He proposed that employees participate in senior management decisions to “democratize companies,” but he did not mention profit sharing.
During its previous congress in 2021, the PSOE was also committed to fighting the unequal distribution of social benefits and salaries, with measures such as improving salaries or recovering the strength of unions, but it speaks now directly to force the distribution of benefits by law.
Trabajo
El PSOE también se ha vuelto más ambicioso en cuanto al SMI. Tras el 40 congreso, los socialistas se comprometieron a que el SMI llegara al 60% del salario medio. Ahora buscan que se sitúe “siempre por encima” de ese porcentaje. Pasa algo similar con la jornada laboral: en la resolución anterior hablaban de reducirla, pero sin especificar. Ahora se les queda corta la de 37,5 horas que pactaron al inicio de la legislatura y ya apuntan a la de 36 horas.
Aunque ese fue el acuerdo de coalición, es cierto que Sumar siempre ha dicho que le parecía poco y que, de hecho, su objetivo es ir reduciendo la jornada laboral progresivamente hasta llegar (en un futuro indeterminado) a las 32 horas semanales sin reducción salarial, como piden los sindicatos. La génesis de todo esto, dicen, sería una Ley de Usos del Tiempo, que es la misma fórmula que defendía Sumar en 2023.
Entre las medidas relativas al mercado laboral, la ponencia del PSOE también recoge una propuesta para “reemplazar el actual esquema de políticas activas de empleo por un sistema integrado de formación continua”.
Medios de comunicación
Para Ferraz, la estrategia de achicar el espacio de Podemos y Sumar se ha convertido en una constante en los últimos años. Lo que empezó con el Plan de Acción Democrática en verano ha terminado en una declaración de intenciones.
Hace unos meses, Sánchez no llegó a explicar qué ocurre si desde una web no registrada como medio de comunicación se difunden bulos o qué perjuicios tendrá esa página respecto a las que sí sean consideradas medios. Es decir, no acabaría con lo que llama “pseudomedios” ni con los grupos de Telegram como el de Alvise Pérez, utilizado para difundir información falsa. Ahora sí.
En las resoluciones de hace tres años, los socialistas veían a los medios de comunicación como aliados para combatir la desinformación, mientras que ahora han pasado a una línea mucho más dura.
Esto se traduce en varios objetivos, entre los que se enmarcan “más transparencia y rendición de cuentas” en los medios de comunicación privados y las redes sociales. “No podemos dejar que los enemigos de la democracia usen el anonimato de las redes y la libertad de expresión para difundir bulos […] we can’t let them exist either opaque pseudo-digital mediawith more financiers than readers,” says the party.
In this regard, the measures proposed by the socialists range from the legal obligation for the media to make their funding sources public, to the obligation to implement “verification systems”, also in social networks and applications messaging services like WhatsApp or Telegram.
This means that they lump together newspapers, private television channels, messaging applications and social networks, where they believe false information is spread. Thus, they also offer “an audit of social media algorithms”, with which they hope to avoid calls. echo chambersand a “media education plan” in institutes, to learn how to compare information and identify fake news.
Taxation
The socialists defend a more progressive tax system “which also includes taxes transferred to autonomous communities and local administrations” for the highest incomes. Formally, the PSOE demands to increase the tax rate of the wealth tax “the mega-rich” up to 5% and introduce a minimum tax of 50% at the general personal income tax rate for income above 300,000 euros per year.
To this, they add a second title, which consists of establishing a state tax on large inheritances and donations which acts as a minimum tax “and prevents certain autonomous communities from canceling the current one”, through bonuses such as those established by the regional governments of the PP. Also underpins the idea of increasing corporate tax for companies whose managers earn “40 times” the average employee.
