By Carlos Ruano
MADRID (Reuters) – “In these moments the game is broken. At this point, the situation is so distorted that it is impossible to solve this right now.”
Well summed up José Antonio Pérez Tapias, a member of the Federal Committee of the Socialist Party, the situation of the match after eight hours of disagreements in a historic meeting in the party headquarters that could be decisive to avoid a third election that could jeopardize his future.
After more than nine months of government functions and two elections in which only the PP went up in votes, the PSOE was split between those who favour more or less directly by allowing the abstention an Executive of the Popular Party and the support of the still leader Pedro Sánchez to try to form an alternative government.
Sanchez, who forced the meeting on the Sunday before the growing wave of critics, defends the call for a primary in which emerges as a favorite and an extraordinary congress under the thesis of trying to mount an alternative to the PP.
Meanwhile, the side critical wants to stop step to a manager that could allow the abstention of the socialists to pass the opposition of an Executive in a minority of the conservative PP in the face of fear to continue the bleeding of votes of the last appointments with the polls.
Both inside and outside the venue, where they lived scenes of tension between supporters of the same party, the divisions were on the rise from the early hours of Saturday .
Only the points of order prior took more than three hours of negotiation and throughout the session there were constant disagreements over what to vote for and how.
In the afternoon session, with agreement apparent for vote on the holding of an extraordinary congress, the supporters of Sanchez wanted a secret ballot and the critical public.
A source socialist present in the room, that is not allowed access to the press, said that the supporters of Sánchez put in an urn and began to vote with cries of “fraud” of the contrary.
Shortly after, critics started the search for firms to try to get a motion of censure on Sanchez.
THE TWO SPAINS
“No is no”, increpaban indiscriminately supporters of Sanchez to anyone who came out of the building in madrid’s calle Ferraz where dozens of onlookers, a crowd of journalists and something more than a hundred sympathizers, socialists, almost all supporters of Sánchez, were concentrated from nine in the morning, with debates improvised and arguments that showed at times, the division of the two spains,” even among supporters of the same party.
“No coup in the socialist ranks” or “Philip chivato, coup” in reference to the historic ex-president, socialist Felipe Gonzalez, one of those who led the rebellion against a Sanchez enrocado in his “no” to Rajoy.
“There is a debate required, it is a political debate between a government of the PP or not. The support of Sanchez is absolutely majority among the militants and voters of the PSOE. It would be unlawful to evict,” explained to Reuters, José Antonio Iniesta, socialist militant of 59 years, in front of the headquarters of the PSOE.
The attempt to put order in the house of the socialist collides against the clock election, which will be launched at the end of October, with the announcement of new elections if not before there is an agreement between the parliamentary groups.
The tensions experienced in the last few months in the PSOE after the wear and tear of the electoral suffered to coast on all of the party antiausteridad we Can, and the dispute for the leadership of Sanchez erupted on the Monday after the last electoral debacle in Galicia and the Basque Country.
“This is the tension of the history of the left, in the end, will lead us to a new majority of the PP,” lamented María Gallego, a young man 21 years of age, which comprised the division on the outskirts of the headquarters and was told voter we Can.
The Saturday Ferraz, some shouting, “is we Can” to critics of the debacle internal, while the president of Andalusia and considered the main rival of Sanchez, Susana Díaz, this week released a warning to the group antiausteridad that threatens its hegemony on the left: “they Think that what they have done with UI what can be done with the PSOE, but the PSOE is much PSOE”.
Without that for the time being to predict the outcome of this contest, and new elections may not resolve the difficulty to form a government as the polls continue to show a parliament is very divided, in which only the PP would exceed with the amplitude of the hundred seats in a parliament of 350 seats.
“it Is a pity (…) it is important that we have people with common sense making decisions, not having a government is not an option”, he explained to Reuters Jose Garcia, confessed militant of the party with the most votes, the PP, while watching among political rivals a time that many consider to be historical to the political party that has governed in democratic Spain and, who knows, perhaps also for the country.
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