Pedro Sánchez is very touched. Some of those responsible for equality and feminist leaders of the party with which he met this Friday, saw him very dejected, very thin. He himself admitted in the appointment that has lost a lot of weight these days. “Look if I’m having a bad time I’ve lost several kilos,” he told them. This week, in Seville, the president’s remarkable loss of the president has been clearly seen after the crisis unleashed for which he was less than a month ago was his secretary of organization and which he defended by cape and sword.
Sanchez was very honest before the 70 leaders he had summoned to apologize in person for having chosen as a man’s secretary like José Luis Ábalos, who in the conversations found by the researchers with Koldo García speaks of some women as if they were won. “I recognize that I am broken in pain for having trusted these people,” Sánchez told them, according to several of those present. “In a very hard blow for me to know that I chose those people who have such shameful conversations about women and are involved in severe cases of corruption. There are people who recover easy from blows, I don’t,” he said.
The president first had an intervention recognizing his tremendous error, asking for forgiveness, announcing that the PSOE will change his ethical code to expel any militant who uses prostitution – socialists want to prohibit it definitively if they achieve support in Congress. Then those responsible for equality of the entire party spoke, both national and local, and in the end Sánchez, in a very quiet environment, sincere with them in a way that he had probably not done with anyone so far. He even talked openly about his resignation, something he has not done in the press conferences, although it was to explain why he has ruled out.
“If I thought that leaving my house, that leaving the presidency would solve the problems, I would avoid the harassment we are suffering about the government, about the PSOE, I would do it without hesitation. But I am convinced that I would get worse. Because they do not attack me for being Pedro Sánchez, but for being general secretary of the PSOE. And they would do the same with the next Ahead and we have done many things, we must claim them, ”he explained. He also asked them to claim the decisions of the government more, such as the last to stand against Donald Trump and reject the 5% increase in the GDP of the expenditure in defense that, he explained, would cause serious social cuts.
Sánchez will develop some of these lines in his speech on Saturday before the Federal Committee, according to his environment, but he will do it more formally, with the data of his entire government management, trying to awaken among the leaders the pride in the executive’s work so as not to throw in the towel and try to move forward at the time of greater weakness of the president since he arrived at La Moncloa.
The appointment has spoken especially about the conversations of Ábalos and García about women and the shame they have felt when both the president and the socialist leaders present at the meeting. “I have made many mistakes, I know, but the most important is undoubtedly entrusted to Ábalos and Cerdán,” he told them, while the party head of the party, Pilar Bernabé, pointed out that these conversations are “the worst thing that could happen” to a party like the PSOE that claims feminism. Some speeches were very hard, but given Sánchez’s sincerity, in the end the leaders transferred his support and he thanked him. “I needed an act like this to face tomorrow,” he said. Now it remains to know what tone Sánchez will use before the Federal Committee, and with the cameras in front
