Emiliano García-Page has once again said out loud what more and more PSOE leaders think in private but do not say in public. The president of Castilla-La Mancha has recovered the proposal he launched a year ago to Pedro Sánchez, when the PSOE looked over the precipice due to the corruption scandals of José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, and has asked him to submit to a question of confidence or call elections due to the magnitude of the crisis generated by the accusation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. “I hope that the situation can be clarified personally, I wish him the best but we cannot see what is happening as an isolated event. We have been for a long time now where one scandal covers up another and it is gaining more and more volume. Personally, I think that this is the moment of greatest risk for the PSOE in all of democracy,” he stated in the same line in which Felipe González spoke a day before. And at a moment of special anxiety in La Moncloa, after the president of the PNV, Aitor Esteban, considered it “irresponsible” for Sánchez to consider moving forward and the Canarian Coalition, another partner of the Executive, has declared the legislature over.
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