The socialist senator and former leader of PSOE-A Susana Díaz has defended this Thursday that the party must be "proactive in the defense of its honor," and not limit itself to "respecting" and saying that it will "collaborate with Justice." In her opinion, the PSOE should "sue the unbearable" former member Leire Díez and "all this gang" of people investigated in the case that analyzes the alleged creation of an internal plot to obstruct judicial investigations against the formation.
The also former president of the Junta de Andalucía spoke on the program 'Por fin' on Onda Cero, collected by Europa Press, regarding the judicial investigations that affect the PSOE and leaders such as the former Organization Secretary Santos Cerdán and the party manager, Ana María Fuentes, for the alleged creation of a network intended to hinder judicial proceedings against the socialists.
Asked how to "get out" of the current situation, Díaz replied that it must be done "with more than words, with forcefulness." "Besides saying that we collaborate with justice, we have to sue this unbearable person and all this gang, because it is the only way to cut off the 'The one' thing," she pointed out, alluding to the expression that, according to the investigation by the National Court judge Santiago Pedraz, Santos Cerdán would have used to refer to the person whose orders he followed.
The senator also stressed that it is necessary to "be transparent in the PSOE's accounting so that there is no doubt that no party money has been allocated to these characters, and to do whatever is necessary so that PSOE members do not have to lower their heads, and much less" its "voters and the people who feel this party."
"Cleanliness and transparency" in the party
As the former Andalusian president insisted, it is about "carrying out an important exercise of cleanliness and transparency that goes beyond saying that we are going to collaborate with justice." Later, Díaz echoed an official reaction from the PSOE released this Thursday, in which the leadership announces that they will offer "all pertinent explanations" when the secrecy of the sumario is lifted and they can thoroughly study the case, recalling that the party is the first interested party in clarifying the facts.
"This is what I want my party to be, to start being transparent and for whoever has to fall, to fall, but for the party to be saved, for the left to be saved, and for a lot of decent and honest people who face the PSOE every day to be saved," she stated.
Díaz stressed that "we must always respect what Justice says," and that she respects "the rulings" and "the judges," although "sometimes" she agrees with their decisions and other times she does not. In any case, she recalled that "it goes without saying" that in "a democracy, in a State of Law, Justice and judges must be respected."
At the same time, she warned that "in addition" one must "be proactive in defending the honor of the party," so that, "in addition to saying that we are going to respect Justice and collaborate with Justice, more things must be done," because she does not want "mayors to have to lower their heads, nor militants, nor for them to blush in the street."
"If we don't do it, we will be mistaken," she warned, before remarking that "there is a progressive part of this country that needs the PSOE, and that, when the PSOE misses the mark, feels orphaned." She insisted that "the decency, the honesty of this party must be above the bad practices of some," and that "not doing so, not suing, generates shadows of doubt," something that, in her opinion, "should be corrected as soon as possible."
Díaz also recalled that she accessed the General Secretariat of the Andalusian PSOE "after a very complicated period of trials, of corruption in Andalusia," and that in such contexts "you have to be very forceful," even if "innocent people are left by the wayside" and there are "people who will never forgive you," because "when people see that you are serious, they return their trust at the ballot box."
Rejection of an electoral "super Sunday" in 2027
On another matter, when asked about the proposals of those who, like the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, believe that the general elections scheduled for 2027 should be brought forward, Susana Díaz stated that she has believed "for a long time" that "a window of opportunity" should have been "sought" to call those elections earlier, because she has maintained that "this legislature is a Calvary" and that "there have been moments when we could have gone to the polls and the result would have been good" for the PSOE.
However, she has clarified that what worries her now is that "what should not happen is the overlap of the municipal and regional elections with the general ones" in an electoral "super Sunday". She considers that "there are sufficient elements to debate at a national level", and that the mayors and regional presidents who run for office "have to account for their management and what they want to do in their municipalities", in a context in which "there is a noise, an enormous tension that would overlap one debate with the other".
"What I would not like is for it to be a 'super Sunday', in that I am very sincere and I have said it in my party to everyone who wanted to listen to me", she has pointed out, adding that "there are many people who think" like her "about this".
In the same vein, she has argued that the mayors who run in the local elections "want to talk about their own things, about their town, about whether they have done better, worse, or so-so, but they want to talk about their own things", and that, if a "super Sunday" were called, the prior debate would focus "exclusively on Spain, on what is happening in Spain and on the arguments". In her opinion, that would be "unfair to those who give their all, their skin and their eyelashes for four years".