Trying to explain what is happening with the PSOE is not an easy task. The breakdown of the bipartisanship has atomized the vote, dispersing to a greater extent in the left zone of the voters. Faced with a right invaded by corruption, the emblematic Spanish labor party was unable to regain power, not even with new left-wing parties too defeated towards ideologies rooted in the most extreme of this political tendency. It all started very recently ...
At six in the afternoon on October 1, 2016 the PSOE explodes at its headquarters on Calle Ferraz in Madrid. The whole of Spain observes with amazement a spectacle of clandestine ballot boxes, insults, tears and threats, finished off with the shocking defenestration of Pedro Sánchez, the party's general secretary. With his departure begins a period of uncertainty whose electoral effect is still unknown.
After the hurricane of ruin, precariousness and social suffering; After the shock of the indignant and the great crisis of the bipartisanship, has the left been up to the required level?
What's behind all the noise? Fight of ideas or simple power disputes?
This is the chronicle of the year that the PSOE burns and of the political earthquake that has shocked a left too accustomed to resignation. Jesús Maraña, a journalist of rigor and honesty greeted by all, alike and opposite, with access to the protagonists and the main sources of this drama, plunges into the labyrinth of the left. How did we get here?
What internal and external threads are moving to force the departure of Pedro Sánchez? Starting from unpublished and exclusive conversations, with an agile rhythm and a direct style, Maraña masterfully draws the picture of a left facing a new and complex crossroads. An essential work to understand what is happening to us.
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