“It causes us infinite sadness,” admit the hard core of Moncloa and Ferraz. The forceful attacks by Felipe González and Alfonso Guerra against Pedro Sánchez, whom they accuse of opening the door to amnesty and self-determination due to the demands of the independence script to facilitate his inauguration, assure that it generates a “very heartbreaking” feeling in them. “It's very sad, because of what both of them have been in this match,” they insist. And they regret that González and Guerra provoked, with their invectives, an “intentional blowing up” of all the bridges with the leader of the PSOE.
"If Rodolfo Llopis heard them...", they lament, in reference to the historic leader of the PSOE abroad who, in 1974, was ousted by the interior renovators, led by González y Guerra, at the Suresnes congress.
Although in Moncloa and Ferraz they avoid a direct confrontation with González and Guerra, they believe that their “arengues” the day before were so thick – they accused Sánchez of disloyalty for changing the party's position against the amnesty after the elections –, that the secretary of organization of the PSOE, the always discreet Santos Cerdán, was forced to reply forcefully: “Disloyal are those who do not respect the majorities of the party,” he snapped.
Many in the PSOE leadership accuse González and Guerra, “with pain,” of fueling the right-wing offensive to torpedo Sánchez's investiture.
But Ferraz insists that their criticism no longer has the capacity to open any crack in the PSOE, nor do the former socialist ministers who applauded them at the Ateneo event: “You just have to look at the guest list,” they ironically.
Guerra, however, continued shooting left and right yesterday, also against the vice president and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, whom he accused of spending too much time “between one hair salon and another.” Words that she not only called the aforementioned “sexist,” but that former vice president Carmen Calvo also condemned: “It is absolutely detestable that we are judged by our hair instead of our neurons,” she replied angrily.
