PSOE: let’s be optimistic

You may have noticed that in this first paragraph you will notice that I used very harsh adjectives: grotesque, crazy… These are not enough to describe the endemic crisis of PSOE in Alicante, which did not come from 25 years ago, as Mira-. says Perceval. Since I’ve published a political history on INFORMATION, I’ll be 35 soon, and I’ve never written about anything other than their enduring civil wars with the capital’s socialists. He could say, “I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe,” royin one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema. But the character he masterfully plays Rutger Hauer I’ve just given a few examples (ships burning beyond Orion and C-rays glowing), I could give dozens: The mayor punches a mayor in an assembly. He was purged just when a leader put the party in a position to win the elections. He sacrificed at the altar of a general secretary, a former mayor, and a builder who came to a former spokesperson as an employee and whose legal defense took over as another former spokesperson when things went wrong. Votes on key moments of different legislatures exchanged for municipal salaries. A candidate who nearly fled before he could collect the minutes all burned down when they believed he might be a future contender for Mayor in a matter of weeks, just as he had to do something else in charge of the party years ago. then he held José Luis lassalette and I aspire Antonio Fernandez Valenzuela. From insanity to insanity, an individual who coincidentally became mayor after suffering the worst result in PSOE history and who, from insanity to insanity, had to resign before he could finish the legislature, deepened the well. The proposed candidates are more in line with the PP than with the Socialist Party… Nonsense, in short, for every taste and colour.

As published these days, the PSOE has not repeated any mayoral candidate since 1995, and none of those submitted have completed the task. To fully calibrate the extent of the bankruptcy, it must be said that those who changed them instantly ended as badly as those before them: the majority did not even have a place in the next nomination, and those who managed to rise managed to rise. audio failures topped the list in the midst of very vigorous controversy.

The penultimate episode of this boring soap opera was the forward flight, starring the spokesperson for the municipal group. Francis (formerly Paco) sanguine. The former head of the Teatro Director was a hopeless affair. Ximo PuigHe had previously offered several people to head Alicante’s socialist candidacy, but was rejected by all, almost at the time of injury, until someone suggested Sanguino’s name and told him he was available. Puig imposed on a local group that was devastated after passing in his direction. Gabriel Echavarri, but the invention did not work even before the election campaign began. Sanguino was nothing more than an uneducated, unprepared and clueless amateur in politics.

This is how the entire tenure of the spokesman turned from nonsense to nonsense, with the spokesperson more interested in facing his own group, some councilors, others than the opposition. All he could do was turn them all (whether Trojan or Trojan) against him, and at the same time he said to anyone who had the patience to listen to a new milonga every day: if he was going to Madrid. because they had very good connections to go Pedro SanchezIf he’s going to Valencia because Puig has great respect for him, if Alicante is small for his talents and talents… Fogueres is more like mascletá, but perhaps in a recent outburst where he wants to take the implication of Greek tragedy, municipal regulations have to fire advisers and dismiss councilors. It did more than advertised, using the advantages it provided to get The problem is that Sanguino is also compromising on the outcome the Socialists can achieve in the next election, in his zeal not to end it without attention. In short, that’s what he’s looking for: his surrogate’s numbers to be worse than his own. It’s a silly way to justify oneself, because fortunately politics is much more than numbers, and in any case it wouldn’t be fair to say that Sanguino voted for Mayor from the PSOE, but one thing can be verified: he didn’t contribute anything: Sánchez and Puig did it a month ago. He got less than he got. This is the number.

Of course it’s Puig’s fault. For putting it there. And although the constant worsening of the situation makes this epilogue predictable, it does not encourage an orderly delivery on time. And the fault of the one who has controlled the party since the mid-90s, from failure to failure, to the devastation he is experiencing today, namely Ángel Franco. But at the same time, everyone who is a member of that organization in this city is also guilty. If Franco rules, as the PSOE does, by sterilizing him, drying him out, keeping him permanently immobilized as an instrument of society, it is mainly because no one in the legislature has been able to articulate a solid alternative to him. On the contrary, there is not a single person who, at one time or another, disagrees with Franco, among those who have opposed him in the past, or who have declared themselves dissidents today. Nor any general secretary of the PSPV, lerma To Puig, through pla or by to warn you, said they did not trust him to secure the votes they would need in congresses later on. In this sense, the PSOE has been defrauding its constituents for over three decades. Why isn’t Puig accepted by any of his offers to lead the PSOE? Because the PSOE in Alicante is a black hole that no one wants to come close to, and that devours everything they can reach. That’s what Franco does. But it is also what we have the impression that others have done before him, and those who fight to replace him.

What will they try now? The confusion has already been made. It fits a little more than damage control. But even when they can’t agree on how to fire Sanguino, it’s tough, even though none of them defend his performance. Unaware of what’s going on around them, they’re too busy to see if they can get more wood from what’s going on to continue their inner struggle. The socialist leadership is among the names considered recently (basically, Main Barcelona Y Josephine GoodEven if you’re wondering Michael Millana and it’s possible Trini Amoros), has a better appreciation among citizens and activate the process to nominate that person as a candidate for Mayor as soon as possible, preferably in September. At the same time, both Valencia and Madrid will bring the line up around this name, and both the municipal group and local government will work to promote this. Will they be able to? I know I’ve mentioned it here before, but I can’t help but emphasize once again the difference between a pessimist and an optimist in politics. A pessimist is someone who says, “Things can’t get any worse.” And the optimist replied: “Yes, of course he can.” In the case of Alicante’s PSOE, there is only room for optimism.