Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Sánchez is running out of time'

This morning, someone closely following the PSOE crisis told me: "The Socialists have been very disoriented and out of place for the past few days." So, to try to come up with something more than the excuses of a bad payer with a sad face, Pedro Sánchez is maturing the move, knowing that he doesn't have a strong hand now. That there's an atmosphere of the end of a cycle. A survivor like him won't throw in the towel and call elections that he would probably lose again. But, in order to continue, a president like him, in a minority, must convince his investiture partners that he can hold out without calling elections because nothing more serious corruption will emerge. Above all, he must convince them that he, Sánchez, didn't protect Santos Cerdán, the PSOE's organizational secretary.

Therefore, he must take the temperature of his partners: which ones demand that he present a motion of confidence, What do they ask of you in return for continuing to support you?I say Sánchez should take the temperature, because he hasn't done so yet. There may be some contact, but "the" meeting, not yet, and in the case of Junts, for example, they have requested an in-person Sánchez-Turull meeting. In Esquerra, Bildu, the PNV, and Junts, it doesn't occur to them to vote for Feijóo alongside Vox. But they don't want to be tainted by the corruption of the PSOE either.

In the now famous biography of Pedro Sánchez, Resistance Manual, where the title was both a description of his career and a premonition, he quoted the phrase: "There's only one way to know if you can trust a person: trust them." Unfortunately for him, these are no longer the times. Sánchez can't blindly ask for trust today. That's why he appears today, after meeting with the party leaders. He is the second organizational secretary appointed by him to be implicated in a case of sustained corruption. It's a stain too big to carry like someone who swims until 2027.

Even his usual media backers, such as the Prisa group, have withdrawn their support. The Country has opened this Sunday with a "Crisis that threatens Sánchez's survival for the first time"García-Page asks for early elections, while at the PP rallies the clamor of "Pedro Sánchez, resign! Until now, Sánchez has tolerated the lack of an alternative majority, but from now on, the absence of the PP will not be enough.

Good morning.