The PSOE relativizes the electoral damage and the internal contestation

It rains hard, but it rains on wet.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
11 November 2022 Friday 22:33
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The PSOE relativizes the electoral damage and the internal contestation

It rains hard, but it rains on wet. As was the case with the granting of pardons to the pro-independence leaders convicted by the procés, in Moncloa and the PSOE they clench their teeth to endure the harsh political downpour that is already bearing down on their shoulders after the bill was registered in Congress which will replace the crime of sedition with that of aggravated public disorder, with a substantial reduction in prison sentences and disqualification.

And, as happened when the Council of Ministers approved the clemency measures for the nine imprisoned pro-independence leaders -in June of last year-, the Socialists are confident that once again, when this strong storm subsides, the beneficial effects will once again be demonstrated. of the new step taken by Pedro Sánchez to continue "dismantling, piece by piece", the political conflict in Catalonia. "Today who questions the effects of the pardons or the dialogue table?" They warn in the direction of the PSOE.

The socialist strategy focuses again on deploying a wide range of arguments to justify this penal reform, to try to reduce its possible electoral costs and at the same time avoid an internal contestation that they warn is limited to only two autonomous presidents of the PSOE: the Castilian- Emiliano García-Page from La Mancha and Javier Lambán from Aragon.

The socialist spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, assured after registering the initiative together with the president of the United We Can group, Jaume Asens, that the PSOE will always put coexistence in Spain and Catalonia before the interest of its acronym. “Even if it costs us votes,” López warned.

"The progressive government of the PSOE makes decisions and does politics regardless of the electoral cost," he assured. And in the face of the right-wing offensive, he replied: "Betrayal would be not trying." Patxi López, precisely, will star in an act today in Barcelona together with the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, to defend the reform.

Just as Sánchez himself did the day before, the socialist spokesman used the reasons for the reform yesterday. Among them, he recalled that the current criminal type of sedition in Spain, as it does not exist in the countries of the European environment, prevented the extradition of Carles Puigdemont. “With this reform, that will not happen again. There will no longer be sanctuaries for attacks against public order, ”he warned.

Page and Lambán, who in just six months face their re-election in the regional elections, expressed, however, their total disagreement with the reform. “What happened is very serious. Today we are in full escalation of prices, and the only thing that is going to get cheaper is the attack on the Constitution”, denounced the president of Castilla-La Mancha. The Extremaduran Guillermo Fernández Vara, in turn, admitted: "I don't like anything that the independence movement likes." But Vara acknowledged that with Rajoy Spain was breaking up, while with Sánchez "what has been broken is the independence movement and the procés."