In a recent article titled “Sanchismo is at stake,” he pointed out that this election year will be crucial in whether or not consolidating “Sanchismo,” above the acronym PSOE, as a movement more dependent on the undisputed leadership of the president. of the government that of the historic initials of the party founded by Pablo Iglesias. A reader who seemed to disagree with my diagnosis exhorted me in a commentary on the article: “Repeat a hundred times: It’s socialism, not ‘sanchismo’.” It has later been published that talking about ‘sanchismo’ is malicious and even used as a synonym for all the ills that afflict the land. Paradoxically, the discomfort with this five-year personalization of Spanish political leadership is more pronounced among those who have emphasized Pedro Sánchez’s imprint in national and even international politics. And they have celebrated him as an admired leader in Europe, who brought social peace, women’s rights, the new minimum wage, dignified pensions and now promises thousands of cheap flats and affordable rents. What is shocking is that with all this baggage, not to mention the Iberian exception of energy, employment and the envious management of the economy, it is assumed that “sanchismo” conjures something negative or that “sanchista” is a harmful identification is in election code. However, the political trend in democracy despite the wear and tear of acronyms is the emergence of top-partisan leaders, Emanuel Macron-style, who, while not having his best moment, has won two consecutive presidential elections without relying on a traditional party. The personalization of an important political cycle in national political life has been a constant in the journalistic language, as with Felipe González (felipismo) and even Alfonso Guerra (guerrismo). Although the first called for the modernization of the PSOE, and the second – the despotism of the party apparatus. The fact is that in Moncloa they don’t like personalization in Pedro Sánchez, Pedro Sánchez’s policies. Probably the underlying problem lies with the socialist family itself, which has failed to fully heal the wounds of succession, so that demoscopic perceptions reflect a detachment from the current Secretary-General in a sector of the classic PSOE electorate . In the end, Sánchez’s management may not be able to compensate, on the one hand, for his elevation above the historical acronym, and, on the other, for the most questionable elements of his mandate, such as pardons for seditious people, the pacts with Bildu, or the abandonment of the sahrawis. If the vote for Sánchez is not identified with the classic vote for the PSOE, the electoral effects could backfire.
Source: La Verdad
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