The path of the PSOE in Spain: death and resurrection

Sánchez. In early 2019, the right and the far left had pursued it. He recovered. Photo: DPA

Jair Don Blake was weak, lazy and sickly, but he found the magic stick that made him Thor, god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology. Pedro Sanchez looked like a Don Blake who had not found the cane; his leadership was therefore always fragile and vulnerable. He lost all the elections and did not overthrow the fall of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. But one day, the character created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby, the leader of the PSOE found the magic wand it made him invincible.

This stick is the Prime Minister's position. In the plain, Pedro Sánchez was the puny doctor Blake and Mariano Rajoy the bad guy who always beat him at the polls. Several times they had veiled and buried him, but this political corpse had been resurrected thanks to the plan he had put in place to confront the head of the PP in a field other than the electoral one: to promote a vote of censorship.

If Rajoy had resigned before reaching this dismissal, the leadership would have been entrusted to another conservative and the story would probably be different. But the proud Rajoy, convinced that despite his poor social results and political difficulties, his economic performance was protecting him Faced with any attempt at dismissal launched by a fragmented and weak opposition, he chose not to resign.

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The leader of the right was wrong and Sanchez found the shortcut to reach the government leaders by avoiding the ballot boxes. And arriving at this position was like entering the cave in Norway where Blake found the magic stick that made him Thor.

The leader who, in the plain, was an eternal loser, became a skilful leader in entering the Moncloa. Its economic measures widened the capacity of consumption and the Basque and Catalan nationalisms calmed them to the dialogicist politics and the concessions that characterize the PSOE since the time of Felipe González.

He only missed what he finally got: to be legitimized in the polls with a major victory.

Balance. Sanchez managed to gain power and then conquer it at the electoral level, thanks to Rajoy's arrogant hysteria, the corruption of the PP and the failure of the leadership of Pablo Casado, who gave the same formula of polarization as the right-wing party for several years. The Spaniards were tired of what we call here "the crack" and it is Pedro Sánchez who perceived this boredom and took the party to the center.

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Apparently, the Spaniards understood that Rajoy's aggressive centralism was functional for the Catalan independence movement. The decision to cancel "Estatut", which had been approved by the Generalitat and the government of Rodríguez Zapatero, only inflated the candles of the separatist parties. Situation aggravated by stupid policies, such as promoting a boycott of Catalan products.

These attacks triggered the fire. But Sánchez, of the presidency, began to raise the flag of dialogue and negotiation. Ergo, He began pushing politics towards what was his center since Adolfo Suárez occupied the Moncloa Palace. Despite alliances with the podemitas of Pablo IglesiasCatalan Basque separatists and ultra-nationalists of Bildu, besides the PNV, the ten months of Sanchez's leadership had a moderate tone that contrasted with the aggression and drama of the right-wing opposition. Pablo Casado kept the PP in the state of permanent psychotic attack that Rajoy had generated.

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The vast majority of Spaniards voted against. That is why the PSOE was imposed on the head of the government to listen in zen mode. People voted again to reward the center, which allowed citizens to grow on an equal footing with the PP, which collapsed under the moderate vote stolen by Albert Rivera, while Vox stole the votes of conservative nostalgic Franco regime.
In Spain, the anti-system winds that swept the European ballot boxes have stopped. Vox manages to bring back the very recalcitrant ultra-right to the scenario he had left in 1979, when Spain got rid of the last vestiges of Francoism.

As well We can, the left version of the anti-system, continue to lose strength. Not only did he stay stagnant, he even pulled back a few seats.

The center-right liberal leaders do not seem to perceive satiety with the politics of permanent confrontation. The vote count was not over and Rivera, with Inés Arrimadas, vociferated that would not negotiate a government agreement with the PSOE and take it to Sánchez, accusing him of betraying Spain and the Constitution.

At the same time, the president, legitimized by the elections, raised a victorious smile and repeated that he was open to negotiation without "sanitary cords", that is to say that he could change his company with Podemos and with Basque and Catalan nationalism. for a partnership with citizens.

Most of the PSOE bases would feel more comfortable if the ally was a centrist party, like that of the center-right liberals. But at least in the beginning, Albert Rivera made the mistake of imitating the defeated confrontationism of Pablo Casado, instead of adhering to the most friendly and consensual politics that allowed the Socialists to win again.

It will be necessary to see if the victory, this liquor that we still did not know, will intoxicate to Pedro Sanchez by reducing the lucidity that it has had since it was moved to Rajoy de la Moncloa.

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