Pedro Sanchez He has shown to have a special gift for choosing his trusted men.
His last two Secretaries of Organization, key figures in the internal machinery of the PSOE and fundamental pieces in his political career, have had to leave the front line of power to go to jail.
First it was Santos Cerdan. The man who weaved with the patience of a countryman and the meekness of a chaplain the agreements for the investiture of Sánchez with Arnaldo Otegi y Carles Puigdemont He ended up with his bones in Soto del Real.
Cerdán was the strategist of the impossible negotiations after the elections that his party lost in 2023, responsible for shaping a “progressive majority” as heterogeneous as it was fragile.
Today, however, his name no longer sounds in the offices of Ferraz or Moncloa, but in the courtrooms.
And now the turn has come José Luis Ábalos.
He was the one who negotiated the motion of censure in 2018 Mariano Rajoy that brought Sánchez to Moncloa.
There are few metaphors as eloquent as the fact that the two architects of the Sánchez era have ended up behind bars.
What is surprising is the aim of the President of the Government. His wisdom would make the human resources office of any company tremble.
It is worth remembering here that the man whom he had selected to be his third Secretary of Organization, Paco Salazarone of his main supporters in Moncloa, had to be discarded at the last second due to accusations of sexual harassment leveled against him by women from his own party.
Now the UCO is investigating him for collecting money from the Dos Hermanas City Council without going to work.
Ábalos, Cerdán, Salazar… they all have something in common: they were not pawns, but central pieces of Sánchez’s board, his circle of greatest trust.
Given the panorama, reflection is inevitable. Given their proven degree of effectiveness, did they get out of that casting more Cerdanes, Ábalos or Salazares yet to be revealed?
Who guarantees us that he was right with other appointments, for example, those of his Cabinet? Nobody, of course; The record does not exactly invite optimism.
Of course, if the President of the Government has the same eye for other issues as he has shown when choosing his main collaborators, we are avid.
At this point, the little that Sánchez has left to do is test his sense of smell to decide when to call elections.