“Here no one is forced to join the military,” they allege. The federal executive of the PSOE has thus decided to expel Nicolás Redondo Terreros from the party, as it already did definitively with Joaquín Leguina last December, as ElDiario.es announced this Thursday and sources from Ferraz have confirmed to La Vanguardia.
Son of the historic leader of the UGT of the same name, the veteran Nicolás Redondo was the leader of the Basque socialists between 1997 and 2001. But, like Leguina, who was the first and for now only socialist president of the Community of Madrid between 1983 and 1995, he had been very far from the current leadership of the PSOE for years. In fact, Pedro Sánchez's socialist executive already opened a file against both of them in 2021, considering that they had supported Isabel Díaz Ayuso's electoral campaign.
The file against Leguina continued its course, until he was finally expelled from the PSOE last December. Today, the former leader of the Madrid socialists has acknowledged that, in the last general elections, he voted for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as he has argued, because he is in favor of the Constitution. The file against Redondo, on the other hand, was archived since, in the course of the investigation, the veteran Basque socialist alleged that he had not electorally supported the Popular Party.
The latest demonstrations and statements by Redondo, in the heat of the debate on the possible amnesty that Sánchez would be negotiating with the Catalan independence movement to clear his new investiture as President of the Government, went beyond the criticism expressed in this regard by other veterans such as Felipe González or Alfonso Guerra. In this case, Redondo would have made explicit his contempt for “Sánchez and his clique”, as alleged in Ferraz, having attacked the very acronym of the party in which he was still a member. And in the leadership of the PSOE they have decided to cut corners.
