The journalist Carlos Alsina has dedicated this Monday his monologue on the program Más de Uno on Onda Cero to address with some irony the recent statements by Rebeca Torró, Organization Secretary of the PSOE, and what he considers an absence of political self-criticism and an incoherent strategy within the main governing party.
Alsina focused his speech on the allusions Torró made to his childhood —when, as he recounted, at 10 years old he told his mother that "when I grow up I want to be like Felipe González"— to criticize the current management of the socialist leadership. For the announcer, the anecdote serves to illustrate what he describes as contradictions in the party's political discourse and what may seem like an inability to explain and reverse adverse results in recent regional elections.
Along the same lines of debate, Torró had stated days earlier that Felipe González "is no longer a benchmark" in current politics and criticized leaders such as Emiliano García-Page for, in his opinion, "buying into the PP's framework" after the results in Aragon and Extremadura. In defense of his position, Torró maintained that Spanish society has changed and that the party must adapt to those changes to continue governing.
Alsina's monologue not only underscored the internal differences of the PSOE, but also the leadership's insistence on the need to "mobilize its electorate" after two consecutive defeats without admitting, even as a hypothesis, that some of its voters might have opted for other options.