Pedro Sánchez sent a message to the WhatsApp group of the PSOE address on Sunday in which he expressed his “great concern” against the “severity” of seeing “again” how they “ran over” their rights due to the violation of “privacy” of their communications after the publication in The world From a series of messages with José Luis Ábalos from late 2020 to July 2023 “that have nothing to do with the causes that are being investigated for the UCO”, according to socialist sources to El País. Among the leaked messages, conversations appear in which the leader of the PSOE indicates to the then Secretary of Organization to rebuke Barons such as Javier Lambán, Emiliano García-Page or Guillermo Fernández Vara for his criticisms of government alliances or a subsequent contact with Ábalos after his departure from the bridge of the government and the party, already in the pre-campaign of the generals of 2023 He was a candidate for Valencia.
Sánchez, who assured his companions of the PSOE direction that he was “good” and thanked to have “a great family, a great team of people in the government and in the party,” he blamed the filtration to the interest of the right to make the government fall. He linked him to Saturday’s protest in Madrid and judicial investigations against his wife and brother, both accused. “In summary, ‘who can make him do,” concluded the general secretary of the PSOE in reference to the maxim that former president José María Aznar uttered at the end of 2023 against the amnesty law. The mood responses were the tonic and the closure of rows of the fifty members of the executive was unanimous, according to several leaders of the PSOE.
After addressing the first batch of revealed messages on Sunday, The PSOE address has not dedicated “not a second” at the meeting of more than two hours of this Monday in Ferraz, as stressed by its spokesman, Esther Peña. “There has not been a word in our Federal Executive Commission. We have spoken a lot about the war of tariffs, of the blackout, of what interests people, to protect our country, nothing more,” said Peña.
The spokeswoman has avoided responding to the discomfort of Emiliano García-Page and Javier Lambán after the stir that have caused the messages in which Sanchez ordered Ábalos in the late 2020-when he was still the Minister of Development and Secretary of Socialist Organization, before his defenestration in July 2021-that he was on top of the critical barons with the pacts with the independence. “I had three or four episodes with Sánchez, all of them, where I was surprised at the anger before comments that I had made and that they had not liked,” Lambán said in Onda Cero.
After the rupture of Sánchez and Ábalos, the treatment between the two was resumed a few months later and continued sporadically at least until the days after the general elections of the summer of 2023 in which the PSOE retained the government. “My group of (chat of) cousins is more interesting than the messages we have seen, there is nothing relevant and they have not much more route,” Peña has settled, which has stressed that the leaks “have nothing to do with any judicial cause.”
The PSOE does not denounce
The generalized opinion in Ferraz and the Moncloa is that the messages come, “as an empirical fact”, according to the published information, of the hard drives that are in court after being requisitioned to Koldo García, the man of trust of Ábalos in his stage in the ministry and as number three of the PSOE. That is, they were in custody and that they were not part of any open judicial case. The PSOE does not expect to denounce the filtration of conversions that, they insist, are private and, therefore, its filtration would be criminal. The sources of the dome consulted do not rule it out, but they are prudent even though they could file a complaint in the Supreme Court for revelation of secrets. An option that today neither are either Ábalos nor their trusted ex -assassor, according to sources of their environment.
“We are going to wait, the UCO or justice will have internal elements to open an investigation and know what has happened,” says Ferraz sources, which apostille that the messages are not in any cause or indicate any crime. “We do not have to worry, the PP wants to compare it, and it is something impossible, with the ‘Luis, be strong,” they add in allusion to the SMS of Mariano Rajoy to Bárcenas when it was already known that the former PP manager had 50 million in Switzerland and was going to jail. In Genoa they see it in a totally different way: “The close friendship between them demonstrates that Pedro Sánchez was no stranger to the entire plot of corruption. That close relationship demonstrates many things, especially that his cessation covered a great scandal that the president of the Government knew perfectly,” said Cuca Gamarra, general secretary of the PP.
Sánchez has dedicated the beginning of his speech at the executive on Monday to the blackout two weeks ago in a speech in which, in the absence of knowing the exact causes that originated it, he has expressed his confidence in the technicians who must contribute the responses to the incident that left the fourth economy of the euro in the dark. The president, according to sources of the PSOE Directorate, has also defended the renewables, to which parties like Vox have further put in the target in their defense against wind and tide of the nuclear, whose closure was agreed with the owners of the reactors in 2019, who still do not make a formal proposal to the government to review the scheduled calendar between 2027 and 2035. The interview in the country to the country to the Minister of Energy of Portugal. Conservative Maria Da Graça Carvalho, who says that France “has no interest in accelerating interconnections” with the Iberian Peninsula for its nuclear – it has 57 reactors that produce 60% of its electricity – has been very commented.
The PP Congress has been the meeting of the meeting. Sanchez stressed that Alberto Núñez Feijóo was the one who opened the doors of the institutions to the extreme right after giving the green light to the Vox pacts. Fernández Vara has made a reflection in which in his opinion that the PP does not have a plan for Spain after delaying the ideological debate about the relationship with Vox in recent years. The former Extremadura president and secretary of the PSOE regional policy has been one of the first to reach the meeting, a gesture that different colleagues consulted recognized after leaving in the published messages, four years ago, and for the added physical over -site that supposes him in his fight against cancer. The direction of the PSOE has also commented on the war in the Valencian PP, where Francisco Camps celebrated an act over the weekend attended by a thousand historic cadres of the party. The conclusion in Ferraz is that it shows the weakness of Carlos Mazón despite Feijóo reaffirmed his support a few weeks ago for being “brave and coherent” in his management of the Dana and the subsequent months.
Page: “This is very unpleasant”
Faced with the absence of the lowest reference to the messages in the direction of the PSOE, including the barons to the critical barons, Emiliano García-Page and Javier Lambán have claimed the legitimacy of their criticisms of the pacts with the independentists. “This is very unpleasant. Anyone likes to get along with their directions. I blushed when the opposition or the PP always tells us that this is a pure theater, which at the time of truth … This is wrong,” he has recognized upon arrival at an act in Toledo in which he has pointed out that Sánchez and Ábalos “were nail and flesh” and where he has remarked that the pressure that could have received from Ferraz has been “ineffective.” The conversations he had so much with Ábalos were “minimal” and those he has had with his successor, Santos Cerdán, have been “in a fairly kind tone.”
The former Aragonese president has reproached the “sick obsession that demonstrated” Sánchez “for having us controlled the barons and marking the direction and telling us what we had to think and say.” Minister Pilar Alegría was elected her successor as general secretary without the need for primaries and her executive obtained a 93.06% support in a conclave to which Lambán did not attend.
On the other hand, the Catalan president, Salvador Illa, has considered “deeply worrying” the filtration of private messages of Sánchez and believes that an investigation must be opened, since, he has emphasized, “it is not a minor issue.” Illa has also predicted that Sánchez has a “for a while” rope and will win the general elections in 2027.
The impression in the government is that the objective of the publication of the messages is erode. “The revelation of private conversations is a crime. About the content, nothing that seems especially significant,” said Agriculture Minister Luis Planas. “Imagine if we knew the conversations between Mazón and Feijóo, or between Ayuso and Feijóo, or that we knew what we do not know what Mazón did in those four hours the key day of the Dana,” he added in an interview in RNE.
Planas has stressed that “the relationship is currently null” between Sánchez and Ábalos and considers that the intention of the publication of messages of four years ago “is very simple: erode to the government.” The sources consulted from the PSOE and Moncloa direction highlight that the messages are prior to February 2024, when the Koldo case. “I am left with the fact that there was a person who was withdraw from their party and institutional responsibilities. I have nothing to add. Give The time of 1. The PSOE suspended Ábalos from a few days after knowing the Koldo case and his expulsion must be decided by the Ethics and Guarantees Committee.
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