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Madrid (EFE) who regret that these controversies remove the focus from “the good work of the Government.”
“Noise always demobilizes, especially because it covers up how much and good has been done, that is the objective. And I understand the right, but I don’t understand Podemos”, comments a socialist baron, very critical of the position of the PSOE government partners with the ‘only yes is yes’ law.
An opinion shared by the vast majority of socialist sources consulted by EFE as another baron, who ensures that the main problem with this “noise”, caused in his opinion by both the PP and Podemos, is that “it takes away the attention of the good government work.”
“The data is worthless, what comes to the people is the story,” says a socialist veteran, who assures that the PP is an expert in trying to “demobilize” the progressive vote by creating “states of mind”, as he assures What is he doing now with the Mediator case, in which former PSOE deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo is being investigated.
Mark distances and counterattack
The Socialists strive to distance themselves from this plot of alleged corruption, which they circumscribe a single person who was “immediately” expelled from the party, although they are aware that the right will continue to make “noise” with this matter between now and the municipal elections. and regional governments in May.
And for this reason, in the PSOE they are counterattacking by bringing up cases of corruption of the PP as well as the photograph taken in Galicia in 1995 of the current opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado.
A photograph used by the Prime Minister himself and leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, to defend himself last Wednesday in Congress against the attacks of the PP for the Mediator case, and which also stars this week in the editorial of the magazine El socialista , edited by Ferraz.
Lower the tone with Podemos
On the other hand, in the case of the ‘only yes is yes’ law, criticism of the PSOE comes not only from the right, but also from members of Podemos, who have accused the socialists of “betraying” women by uniting their votes with those of the PP in the processing of the reform.
“I don’t like that way of doing politics. They are in the minority and they make noise. We, as the majority party, do not want to give a ball to the morbidity”, assures a minister from the socialist part of the Government, who warns that the strategy of her partners contributes to “give play to the right”, although she prefers to value everything that unites them.
In this way, it complies with the slogan of the President of the Government and leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, who has asked the Socialists to lower the tone with Podemos and focus on the measures adopted by the coalition Executive, as well as on the work that remains pending in this legislature, until the general elections scheduled for the end of the year.
For this reason, and despite the fact that their discomfort with Podemos is evident, the Socialists defend the continuity of the coalition and underline the more than 200 laws approved and other agreements reached recently, such as the pension reform.
In addition, with the crack over the reform of the ‘only yes is yes’ law still open, the Socialists are trying to turn the page by accelerating the negotiation of pending laws such as housing, whose agreement is very close to being achieved, although in Podemos it is deny.
PSOE leaders, both from the Government and from the Federal Executive, point out that Podemos is following “by heart” the usual “manual” of minority partners in coalitions, who try to highlight their differences to maintain their electoral “niche”.
And although most doubt that Podemos can achieve more voters with this strategy, they warn that in the long run it does not benefit any member of the Government and even less the PSOE which, according to a former socialist leader, is a party with a transversal vocation and more “sensitive” to controversy.
“There are so many things, what damage will it do to us. It demobilizes more to the left with these issues, ”he comments in reference to the law of ‘only yes is yes’ and the Mediator case.
A member of the Federal Executive of the PSOE also acknowledges that all this “noise” complicates the mobilization of the socialist vote, although he is confident that in some cases they can take advantage of it positively to assert their position against the more combative discourses of PP and Podemos.