Before every appearance of Francesc Sanguino, the meme “She looked amazing in her head” was referenced at Alicante City Council. The use of jokes to the already dismissed spokesperson of the socialist group in Alicante certainly gave a touch of genius from his origins as a playwright. At the same time, he stressed his difficulty in turning ideas that seemed valid at first into reality. The same challenge is what both party colleagues and the government team have found to build productive relationships with mayors and other opposition groups.
Sanguino sought an epic scenario for his time at the City Council, in a sometimes very pompous speech, which he combined with the times when he practiced absolute silence at the Alicante plenary meeting. It is about tragedy and has turned into a comedy in its epilogue. The socialist spokesman has always acted as an “empty string” between representatives of the fist and rose party, felt abandoned almost from the first moment by Ximo Puig, who had appointed him mayor, and had to endure. Living with the parallel municipal group that Ferraz accuses, councilors and advisers acting under the influence of former senator Ángel Franco.
That Sanguino’s stage would not be easy had been seen in practice from the beginning before he was appointed as the candidate for Mayor of Alicante. It took more time for Puig to find his man for the state capitol. Franco’s proposal, doctor Andrés García Trillo, was rejected. In that scene, the playwright’s name appeared, who had the ex-senator’s approval in exchange for his men being on the list, predicting the turbulence that would ensue. In the campaign for mayoral appointment by polls on May 26, 2019, the head of the Main Theater sickeningly reiterated its independence from the socialist rhetoric, something unpopular in Valencia. Having succeeded in renovating his Botànic a little earlier, on April 28 of that year, Puig chose to move away from the main square island in the south of the Community.
Sanguino loved arm wrestling from the beginning. After the Alicante assembly had approved his list, he was able to trade in two sanchistas, Manuel Marín and Manuel Martínez, who were related to Franco while passing through Madrid. her Franco sector. One of those dismissed was Organization Secretary Pedro Ródenas, now dismissed as consultant.
empty leadership
Sanguino’s campaign was developed amidst suggestions that sounded like the past, such as personal conversations, the occasional wink from Alicante to Puig (“From Moralet, not Morella”), and the removal of traffic from the coastline between Plaza de Galicia and Avenida de. Dénia is at the apex of Jaime II’s extension, or to build a Conference Center in Sangueta, approaching Madrid’s socialist wave with a Pedro Sánchez that was either quickly rejected by the experts or won the generals. None of this served the night of the 26-M, which was so brutal for the socialists. At the headquarters where the weapons were guarded, awaiting the results, a militant approached Sanguino and said what sounded like a sentence: “The party is broken, Paco.” A day later, the socialist candidate calmly warned: “I will not relinquish my membership of the Council. I like to get things done and I see myself working for the city, wherever it is». Of course, he complied not to give up on the action.
Just a few months after the election was enough to show the vacant leadership of the socialist spokesperson. Shortly after the coronavirus outbreak, his speech was again inconsistent with the speech that Puig started from Valencia. In view of the need to emerge stronger from the pandemic and move towards more centrist positions, Sanguino chose to boycott any deal as much as possible in Alicante if the president is determined to facilitate deals in order to reach political agreements. The point where Franco had to meet in person with the mayors of Ciudadanos.
The drums of war began to ring louder and louder in the PSOE, and the socialists did nothing to hide it, as the spokesperson took another route with Miguel Millana at the helm, on his side and with the party. Although it took two years to finally happen, rumors of the Spokesman’s head change were also mounting. The broken city was no secret, and those involved worked hard to make it known. Whether in the halls of town hall or at a public act, the scene was not important and any opportunity was used to bring in the dirty laundry.
no strategy
The absence of a defined political strategy, Sanguino’s “free poetry” attitude, and the absence of leadership were the reasons for his negligent opposition to the work of the Socialist group, the People’s Party and the C’s bipartisanship. The only union that existed between almost nine councilors and four paid advisers was a kind of “against the spokesperson” union that could only get the support of the mayor, Lara López. The arguments most used by the playwright’s opponents were his lack of empathy and inability to form a team, his constant attempt to “divide and conquer”, and his egocentrism that puts his personal brilliance before the collective.
Already in 2021, only halfway through its current mandate, PSPV-PSOE began looking for a way out of Sanguino, worried about its uneven management and unpredictable attitude to the municipal group. Attempts to remove the city spokesperson from Alicante continued until this year to get him a place in Consell’s second echelon. Now, at this point, with his dismissal and ten months before the next elections, it is already late and in some socialist sectors, they regret not cutting it short, realizing that the Alicante powder keg could do so much damage in such a situation. An important election cycle like next year.
The way Sanguino pretended to be “free poetry” forced the local socialist leadership to oversee the municipal group at the end of 2021, so much so that the executive had to attempt to claim a street for Almudena in Alicante. Great despite the spokesperson’s denial. The Christmas holidays did not calm the waters, and even with new factors to consider, such as Alejandro Soler’s victory in the provincial leadership election, internal tensions have increased.
In the first half of this year, the situation of the split between Sanguino and the parallel group of municipalities controlled by Franco was, if possible, even more pronounced, as Ferraz had denounced before. Evidence of this were actions such as breakfast with the media convened at the end of May to address current issues involving Trini Amorós and Millana, with no distinct trace of the playwright.
The two actions that the PSOE carried out in the neighborhoods of Alicante at the beginning of June were also very important: the absence of Sanguino and the trustee in Cortes, Ana Barceló, and the actions that will begin to warm the air a year before the elections. Minister Josefina Bueno, two women appearing in the pools as possible socialist mayors for 2023. A similar situation occurred during Puig’s visits to Hogueras, where Barceló and Bueno were very involved and the city spokesperson was out of the limelight.
last move
Fed up with years of neglect, Sanguino decided to detonate the last bomb on July 15, and knowing that there would be no turning back from this, he announced his intention to engage in a purge against the councilors and advisers involved with Franco, he decided to detonate the last bomb. . His plan was to leave Trini Amorós, the number two member of the municipal group, unpaid and dismiss three of the four advisors on the City Council.
Since then, he has remained true to his role as a tragicomedy hero. Earlier this week, Valencia came into conflict and Sanguino announced he would resign. From then on, he devoted himself to playing cat and mouse without surrendering his head, until the local manager of PSPV-PSOE fired him on Friday. Thus, he put an end to the stormy years that alternated between comedy and tragedy, at least for the time being.
Sanguino’s last tweets
Latin dating and cultural suggestions
farewell flavored date
His last tweet, early Monday through Tuesday, is a Latin quote: “I tried my best, those who can do better.”
Literature
Amazon book recommendation
Sanguino also recommends one of this summer’s readings, Amazonas. Warrior women of mythology.