Page warns that "there is no dignified way out" for Sánchez and believes that "there is still a lot to be learned."
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The president of Castilla-La Mancha , Emiliano García-Page , has raised his voice regarding the current situation facing the PSOE leadership following the latest scandals involving the party's former number two, Santos Cerdán. He expressed his "hurt" and issued several messages, assuring that "there is no dignified way out" of this situation; suggesting that "there is still much to discover" beyond today's headlines. He stated this in an interview with Carlos Herrera on Herrera en COPE , where he also lamented that the party's current credibility situation "is serious."
García-Page emphasized on COPE that the worst thing is that we are in "the most serious moment for the PSOE's credibility in its recent history." "It's extremely serious ; very few people believe the leadership. It's often said it's harassment , but the victim role no longer holds water."
Here, he defended "the role of the UCO justice system" in the face of attacks, sometimes even from "ministers who should be ensuring its proper functioning." Now, "when they start campaigning" against the PSOE, he said he will work to defend "the PSOE without surnames, not Page's, not Sánchez's, the one with a long history of service to the country."
He recalled how, at the beginning of his term, he himself warned of the "dead-end labyrinth" that was emerging. " There's no dignified way out, that's the dramatic point . Can he call elections, can he resign? I think the things that concern him most aren't even in the newspapers. I don't know if they will be, but he needs to be governing," he suggested.
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Given this scenario, he has put forward an approach that involves not debating the "insignificant matters" of current political affairs. "I would give anything to be wrong , but when all those friends, some founding members of this era of the PSOE , those who were involved in the conspiracy of the first primaries behind the famous pink curtain... All of them, what's serious is that they recorded everything."
Therefore, he warned: " There is still much to be learned from what we can infer from the media and from the threats from Koldo, from Aldama, who is a cluster bomb and who has everything recorded ," he added, also citing ministers who "have recorded their conversations" with the president.
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García-Page, who recalled that the last Federal Committee was absent from the reflective Pedro Sánchez , said that he has been giving his opinions for a long time, although he would have liked "many more people" in the party to give their opinions on issues such as amnesty or pardons, "things that the left cannot understand."
"I haven't moved from the social democratic camp. We're going to continue to maintain our position. At the press conference, the Prime Minister acknowledged that he's not fit to be a candidate , and said that if he called one, he would sweep aside the far right. And that's because the government depends on the far right. On the nationalist side as an alibi to maintain the wall, and on the far right, the pro-independence movement that includes Puigdemont and Junts."
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He admitted to being very hurt, although "the PSOE is many things, more than Sánchez, Page, and Ábalos ," a point on which he reminded all socialists that "they never lose their breath" despite, for example, "the poor campaign" of 2023. "I remember the thousands who have escaped from the PSOE."
However, he suggested that "instead of insulting the far right," what we need to do is "beat them at the polls," the "only way to combat them," and not "gather obscene majorities to sustain the government ." The president has called for "a standstill against the obscene tolls of those who want to break up Spain," and he wants to do everything in his "power." "But I certainly won't remain silent."
El Confidencial