Pedro Sánchez sent José Luis Ábalos a. Surprise: No leader wants you to have dissidents criticizing him in the media. Different it is that among the evils of our democracy is the rise of cessation in the parties. And even more worrying, the way in which political signaling is even contaminating many citizens.
In Spain there was a great thirst for change after that of which we began to accuse our disappointment. Podemos and Citizens arose talking about the benefits of internal plurality or less hierarchical leadership to end up doing the opposite. that “if some think that Sanchismo has to be ever to be wide, that they present a political party and join Sánchez,” while filing the dome of Riverists. because he had no place fraternal In Podemos after the affront he had just plant Pablo Iglesias.
Today we feel disappointed Because once we believed that another political party model was possible. Nothing of the sort. Cesarism partly explains the self -destruction of the formations born since 2015. The counterweights – who think differently – have always been positive for making more moderate decisions, or not to make such personalist bets. If he had heard them, perhaps citizens would have ended up holding Sánchez’s hand from the same electoral night
This widespread closure is noted in the boredom that tend to cause interviews to any politician. The so -called “argumentary” has ruined spontaneity and public conversation. What debate fits on a few lines that has previously written and distributed the same party so that its spokesmen repeat again and again before any event, with exactly the same words or expressions? It is often a matter of survival. With the multiplication of informative channels, organizations need to unify their messages before society to penetrate. The analysts themselves tend to be critical when someone leaves the official line.
In this case, the WhatsApp published these days are striking because. Now, the president of the Government did not need to give their barons a touch: he had already annulled his internal power years. Hyperliderazgo has more than generational and context of what it seems. Sánchez reduced the powers of the Federal Committee – so they could not throw him again – while giving greater power to militancy. That is, he endowed more power, because the bases rarely question the decisions of the dome. Unlike A Rivera, the play did not go wrong: how would he have achieved, if he had not agreed to go hand in hand with Podemos and the independentists, in the motion of censure against Rajoy in 2018? The barons had banned any understanding with those same partners in 2015. The centrality is not rewarded in political polarization contexts.
However, it would be NAIF to think that before 2017 there were no internal control mechanisms in the PSOE. Party organizations have always danced to the sound of their leader, whether it was for the charisma of this, by acritística adhesion, for fear of being cornered or because before the militancy chose their leaders, some delegates – people designated – who did not fall from heaven. As Felipe González’s party would say, he did not support the entry into NATO, to do so.
Precisely, the drama of Spanish democracy today is not that our parties try to silence internal criticism, but how that signaling already permeates among certain citizens. It has become impossible to doubt what the leader on duty does without being accused of being little of Right, or little of left, even, despite having militated in it or supporting it in silence. Since when to become a palm tree, it has improved any country or party? Politicians do not have the monopoly of values, but of their strategy. Social networks amplify that dangerous phenomenon that, luckily, is not yet so common in the street.
They will have been changing the forms, but neither can it idealize an anarchic or assembly past in the parties. Already in the twentieth century Robert Michels theorized about the Iron Law of the oligarchy: Power tends to concentrate. The matches reproduce structures around them, whether via their own pictures or external speakers.
Let us assume our cynicism: the thin line among themselves seems good to us or badly separate the discrepant voices also has to do with a leader to reach the government or not. In that they are red and blue similar. It is not just a thing by Pedro Sánchez against the PSOE dissident.
